In Miami, sugarplum dreams under the palm trees
Miami City Ballet dancers rehearse an outdoor performance of The Nutcracker in Miami, Dec. 3, 2020. Miami City Ballets version of The Nutcracker already has color and heat. This year, the company is adding a new element: the outdoors. Rose Marie Cromwell/The New York Times.
by Gia Kourlas
(AFP)
.- Lourdes Lopez, the artistic director of Miami City Ballet, is facing a new unknown. Its a fear shes never had. And it stresses her out.
I just hope that at the last minute that they dont close us down, she said.
Dec. 16, 2020
Lourdes Lopez, the artistic director of Miami City Ballet, is facing a new unknown. It’s a fear she’s never had. And it stresses her out.
“I just hope that at the last minute that they don’t close us down,” she said.
It’s no surprise that she has been wondering what it was like to run a ballet company in London during the Blitz. Against the odds during a pandemic, the company will present its reimagined production of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” this month. Normally, Ms. Lopez said, her worries would fall more along the lines of, are the costumes going to be ready? Will an injured dancer recover in time to perform?
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