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BalletMet to take the stage before small audiences beginning in June Peter Tonguette Following a 15-month, pandemic-prompted break from live performing, BalletMet has returned to a very familiar stage for a series of performances that began last month: the company’s performance space, a small, black-box theater located at its Mount Vernon Avenue headquarters. There, the company has been performing “Unlocked,” an hourlong collection of short dances for limited-capacity audiences that, at first, consisted entirely of the company’s donors and supporters. “Our donors and our board and our patrons have really stepped up for BalletMet to keep us going,” said Edwaard Liang, who wanted to thank the company’s supporters and show the fruits of their investment of “energy, money and heart.” ....
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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. ....
A year of survival and reinvention Artists, venues and organizations persist through the dark times Arts-Barrymore-12-30-2020 The 91-year-old Barrymore Theatre will come out the other side of the pandemic, says general manager Steve Sperling. Oh, the things I learned while talking to arts folks about surviving the COVID-19 pandemic. Bill Brehm, director of the Stoughton Opera House, planted grass for the first time this spring, and was enjoying watching it grow, except under the ferns. Steve Sperling, manager of the Barrymore, is more worried about Madison restaurants than music venues. Mark Bitney, a veteran Overture stagehand, has been keeping bees, playing trumpet and recording music. Kirk Stantis, executive director of the Bartell Theatre, kicked one of the door frames at the theater in frustration, and then apologized to the building. ....