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May 15, 2021
After a long break, the Barbados Dance Theatre Company resumed face-to-face classes today at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society Wall Garden Theatre with significantly less students in attendance.
Artistic Director John Hunte says although all involved are happy to be in each other’s company once again, the Theatre Company has lost “quite a few students”, due to the challenges of facilitating online classes.
Hunte said: “One, we would have had challenges with parents and children competing for the same devices. And of course, by the instructions, even though we would have reduced the prices considerably because they were online, it was still a challenge for some parents who would have been challenged by not having employment. So, we would have lost maybe about 50 per cent of our student population”.