On the road with Ballet Theatre. Who needs red velvet seats.
Dancers from the Boys and Girls Club before a class led by the American Ballet Theatre during its Across America tour in St. Louis, July 14, 2021. The company wasnt just performing outdoors. It was performing outdoors on a stage it had brought along, a stage on wheels that hydraulically unfolds from the form of a truck. Whitney Curtis/The New York Times.
by Brian Seibert
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- On an afternoon in mid-July, the heat index in Forest Park here was hovering in the upper 90s. Members of American Ballet Theatre, in town on tour, had just sweated through a company class that dancer Tyler Maloney likened to Bikram ballet. He and his colleagues were on an outdoor stage, and its floor was warming like a griddle.
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