Maine State Ballet's 'The Nutcracker' opens after Thanksgiving and runs through Dec. 4; Portland Ballet's 'A Victorian Nutcracker' has shows on three consecutive weekends, in three different communities, beginning Dec. 10.
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Portland Ballet performs before a live audience with ‘Momentum’
The production of Momentum: 3 Dances for Moving Forward at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center featured two pieces choreographed by artistic director Nell Shipman that began and ended the evening.
By Steve Feeney
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Portland Ballet dancers run through a dress rehearsal of “Momentum: 3 Dances for Moving Forward” at Westbrook Performing Arts Center on Friday. The show on Saturday was Portland Ballet’s first main-stage production in front of a live audience since the start of the pandemic.
Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer
The Portland Ballet ended its season this weekend with a brief run of “Momentum: 3 Dances for Moving Forward,” a program suggesting, apropos of the moment, a revitalization as things return to some sense of normalcy.