Almost as soon as Dickens published A Christmas Carol, it appeared onstage; the adaptations have only grown more frequent and more outlandish over the last 183 years. But ballets have been a rarer breed. The story’s flashbacks and flashforwards strain dance’s modest narrative powers. So, for this ZooNation production, director Dannielle “Rhimes” Lecointe introduces charming twin rappers, who signal every twisty plot turn. More exciting, Ebony Scrooge captures a worldwide vibe, in which the 99 percent are 99 percent fed-up with our self-obsessed leaders. An ebony Anna Wintour—if the Vogue mastermind ran a house of fashion, not a magazine—lifts the needle on her young assistants’ giddy holiday groove to order them back to work: They have a fashion show to execute! Ebony’s gradual emergence as a kinder, wiser C.E.O. culminates in hip-rolling, spine-undulating West Indian dance. Indeed dance, whether to demonstrate the workers’ robotic subordination or Ebony’s delayed mourning for a life not lived, is the show’s biggest star. —Apollinaire Scherr