BalletMet Tiptoes Toward a Post-Pandemic Season
The Columbus dance company goes small as it returns to the stage.
Peter Tonguette
BalletMet performances are nothing if not grand. Most of the company’s shows take place in the Ohio Theatre, the gilded, 2,791-seat Downtown venue where the troupe practically takes up residence each December for “The Nutcracker.” Now, for its coronavirus-era comeback, the company intends to start small.
For its first performances of any kind since mid-February 2020, BalletMet plans to present “Unlocked,” a program of short works, starting in early May in its performance space, a black-box theater on its campus on Mount Vernon Avenue. In previous years, the theater has been used for occasional small-scale programs, but many seasons come and go without any company productions taking place there.