dirac Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 The Bolshoi Ballet perform live with an audience. Quote The number of seats has been capped to 25%, and neither staff nor spectator can enter the building without a body temperature check and a face mask. But the enthusiasm of dancers and ballet lovers is unbridled. "We are happy people because we have the opportunity to work today," Makhar Vaziev, Bolshoi Ballet director, told ABC News. He said that the anxiety and the feeling of danger persist, but would be worse if his dancers had to stay home. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 The Ballet Beyond Borders conference goes online this year. Quote The guests will include familiar faces from prior visits “along with fresh faces from Nigeria, Syria, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia — many destinations we haven’t had before simply because of travel issues,” said Charlene Campbell-Carey, the director of BBB and the Missoula-based Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 A preview of some U.K. dance events scheduled for 2021. Quote Originally due in 2020, Akram Khan’s work for English National Ballet gets a belated premiere. Riffing on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the classical myth of Prometheus and George Büchner’s Woyzeck, it explores the outsider searching for belonging – so should have added resonance after our time of isolation. Link to comment
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