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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The Dance Season Preview offers COCA audiences a peek inside what dancers at COCA have been developing over the past year. The performance features COCA’s three Pre-Professional Division student dance companies Ballet Eclectica, COCAdance, and COCA Hip-Hop Crew in a mix of excerpts and full works. Also, hear from the Artistic Directors of the dance companies: Antonio Douthit-Boyd, Kirven Douthit-Boyd, and Redd Williams.
Celebrate the work of these dedicated students and get excited for all that is to come from COCA’s dancers in the future!
The Dance Season Preview is a free, pre-recorded performance available to watch February 5 to 7.
Nicolas Mackay
Ballerina Melanie Hamrick wanted to do something to help the dance community months into a pandemic that put many of them out of work. “I hate seeing my friends and colleagues not getting to dance,” she tells
BAZAAR.com. After lockdowns and social distancing measures were introduced this year, live performances went on hiatus. Prestigious companies like the New York City Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre had to close for the season. But Hamrick also thought about the audience members who wouldn’t be able to watch their favorite performances in person, especially during the holidays. “How can we also help them?” she thought.