After 20 months of digital performances, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre dancers are poised to return to the stage for the company’s 2021-22 season. “Season Premiere,” a mixed repertory program accompanied by the PBT Orchestra, is set for Oct. 22-24 in the Benedum Center in downtown Pittsburgh. The classical and contemporary program
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“There is poetry to starting where we left off.”
These words from Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Broadway Programming Marc Fleming are a perfect way to describe the return of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series. It will kick off with “The Band’s Visit” the final show to play the Benedum Center before much of its run was canceled in March 2020 due to the pandemic.
“More than half of the audience members who purchased tickets were unable to attend the show in 2020 due to the shutdown, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring the show back to complete its run and raise the curtain again for Broadway in the Cultural District,” Fleming said in a statement.
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Because the Palais Garnier is still currently closed to the public, the annual inaugural 2021 opening season fundraiser of the Paris Opera Ballet could only be held digitally this year. But this is all good news for us, as this means we can now all view the ballet from the comforts of our own homes.
This year’s gala is a particularly meaningful one as it is the first time the ballet dancers have been able to gather on the stage to perform after a prolonged period of absence.
Défilé du Ballet at the Opening Season Gala (Photo: Julien Benhamou)