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Dallas Black Dance Theatre Takes Stage Outdoors In 2021 Share via:
DBDT Transfer Canvas of Stage To Outdoor Locations Across Dallas
Dallas, TX – December 18, 2020 - Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) is completing its 44th season with all virtual performances. In January 2021, the company will continue to capture the dance and choreography on video in natural outdoor environments across Dallas. Additionally, the dance company has decided to make virtual performances a part of its offering, even after it goes back to performing live in venues. Through its virtual performances, Dallas Black Dance Theatre has reached new audiences across the country and worldwide, including Australia, England, and Norway.
Nothing says holiday tradition around town like making your way down to the Wortham Theater Center to see
The Nutcracker each year. Well, it’s anything but a normal year, but despite living in a post-COVID world, the Houston Ballet and Artistic Director Stanton Welch have attempted to make lemonade within the lemon-tations of the year in the form of
Nutcracker Sweets. The hour-long mixed repertory makes the necessary move to cyberspace, with a program featuring two new works from Welch, a new work spotlighting Houston Ballet II and Students of Houston Ballet Academy, and an abbreviated version of
The Nutcracker culled together from footage taken in 2018.
Nutcracker Sweets
The virtual production combines footage from old company performances of the Tchaikovsky holiday ballet with new dances set to favorite seasonal songs and carols.
By
Adrianne Reece
12/15/2020 at 6:00am
Houston Ballet Soloist Jacquelyn Long.
The pandemic s looming presence has become the ultimate antagonist this holiday season, taking the Mouse King s throne as it brought about the cancellation of the Houston Balletâs annual production of
The Nutcrackerâa wintertime staple of merriment and unforgettable memories that has graced the Bayou City stage for almost 50 consecutive years.
But that hasn t deterred the ballet from spreading holiday cheer with the premiere of its new
Hope you’re in a festive mood, because the holidays are in full swing across the virtual stages of Houston. Read on for holiday traditions moved online and reimagined, and new works, both seasonal and not.
Can you guess the most checked-out book of all time at the New York Public Library? If you guessed Ezra Jack Keats’s
The Snowy Day is also the inspiration behind Houston Grand Opera’s latest world premiere production, set to be their 70th, from composer Joel Thompson and librettist Andrea Davis Pinkney. Though delayed due to COVID, opera lovers can get a sneak peek during