The result is “A Night at the Ballet,” a free streaming event that premieres Thursday and was produced by Live Arts Global, founded by Hamrick and her partners, Christine Shevchenko (a principal dancer at ABT) and Joanna DeFelice. The event, filmed in a small New York theater, will treat ballet-starved fans to performances by dancers from America s top companies in excerpts of classical ballets like “Romeo and Juliet, “The Nutcracker” and “Don Quixote,” as well as contemporary gems like “After The Rain” by Christopher Wheeldon.
“Our mission is just to give work to dancers, stage crew, tech and lighting (people) everyone ,” says Hamrick, “and find a way to keep the arts alive while giving people jobs at the same time. Also giving back to our audiences we don’t want to lose our audiences.
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A night at the ballet, in time for ‘Nutcracker’ season
by Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 14, 2020 1:59 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 14, 2020 at 2:14 pm EDT
FILE - In this image taken from video, choreographer Melanie Hamrick appears at the gala of Youth America Grand Prix, the world s largest ballet scholarship competition, on April 18, 2019, after the U.S. premiere of her new ballet, Porte Rouge (Red Door). Hamrick s Live Arts Global company is producing “A Night at the Ballet,” a free streaming event that premieres on Wednesday. The event will treat ballet-starved fans to dancers from America’s top companies performing excerpts of classical ballets like “Romeo and Juliet, “The Nutcracker” and “Don Quixote.” (AP Photo/Aron Ranen, File)