dirac Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 An Economist podcast with Misty Copeland. Quote WAS THE first black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre earlier denied roles because of her skin colour? She tells host, Anne McElvoy, how dance saved her from a difficult childhood and about her first performance in a classic Christmas production. And, which ballets would she remove from the repertoire? Link to comment
dirac Posted December 25, 2020 Author Share Posted December 25, 2020 A gallery of historical Nutcracker photographs from the Jerome Robbins collection. Quote We looked at dancers, costumes, and rat kings from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s historical collection of photographs spanning decades of this production in New York — from the Technicolor 1940s, to the groovy 1960s, to the extremely Swayze-esque performances in the 1980s. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 Kansas City Ballet hopes for help from the recently passed federal relief package. Quote "Overall, we've lost at least, in just ticket revenue alone, three and a half million dollars," said Bentley. "It's been it's been difficult. Our staff is under reduced compensation. We have had to let some folks go, our dancers have gotten fewer weeks of work this year than we like so there's a lot of there's been a lot of direct impact." Link to comment
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