Fokine Ballet "Nutcracker"

To Play Mother Ginger, MAN UP! Buttermann In Footsteps Of Firefighter, Surgeon By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It takes a man to be a mother. Mother Ginger, that is. “Mother Ginger is traditionally played by a dancer ‘en travesti’,” said Donna Decker of Decker School of Ballet. “In ballet, we don’t call it drag.” This year, Oneonta City school board member and Assembly candidate Dan Buttermann stepped into the dress that Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney,…