PITTSBURG, Kan. — Pittsburg Ballet is in the last stages of preparation for their performance of “The Nutcracker” next week at Memorial Auditorium. Show times are Wednesday, Dec. 20, and Thursday, Dec. 21, at 7 p.m. and on Friday, Dec 22, at 2 p.m. Yana Feldman has been running Pittsburg Ballet since November 2019. For two years, she worked for free as she built up her student base, losing a year of potential growth during Covid, but realized her vision for the studio was on the right track after the 2021 run of Nutcracker.