Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season artistic director Michael Pink and the Milwaukee Ballet are having is far from the one they planned. But in pirouetting to the new realities, the ballet is creating work that s friendly to new audiences.
The ballet opened To the Pointe Thursday in two ways: as a live performance for a limited capacity audience at its Baumgartner Center for Dance, 128 N. Jackson St., and as a video on demand for ticketholders through March 7. In line with city health regulations, the socially distanced live audience is limited to 25% of capacity, maxing out at 50 people. To the Pointe features three classical ballets, plus choreography by Pink and Timothy O Donnell in a kindred spirit, set on classical music. These works challenge the dancers to exhibit grace while being exact in their form and technique.