“We were a bar band,” says The Dead South’s Nate Hilts. That was over 10 years ago. Since then, The Dead South have grown organically, first across their native Canada, then across Europe where they’ve toured numerous times. Hilts says The Dead South holds, “A Western mystique” for Europeans. “We’re like a spectacle,” he continues. […]
Corps de Ballet dancer Gretel Batista is in five of the 11 songs in the program entitled
In Good Company her favorite is the group s Honey You. A lot of them are looking into the camera and more like fear, a grand look, very intense. In Honey You it started like that, very intense, but then you got to be yourself and relax and smile, which was nice to have.
The dancers outfits were inspired by the singular black and white look The Dead South presents in its recordings. Very simple, she says.
Batista was born in Cuba and began taking dance lessons at the Cuban National Ballet School in Havana when she was 3 years old. She continued there all the way until she was 12 and she and her family moved to the United States in 2013 where she continued her studies in Florida. Despite her mother s dreams of her becoming a flamenco dancer, Batista says that from a young age it was ballet that interested her.