Posts Tagged ‘ballet’
Behind Your Ballet
StageLike all nonprofit performing arts institutions, Texas Ballet Theater has its hobgoblins to battle: meeting projected attendance figures, coming in under budget, generating new fans and potential donors – all part of the ...
Red Stars
Big TicketGuest dancers in gala showstopping performance pieces will highlight Metropolitan Classical Ballet’s season-closing program, An Evening with the Stars, Saturday in Bass Performance Hall.
Pas de Grand
Big TicketFor its spring program, Metropolitan Classical Ballet makes a deep bow to Tchaikovsky.
Red and Green
Big TicketWhile Texas Ballet Theater moves its heavy-duty Nutcracker to Dallas for six performances at State Fair Musical Hall starting Thursday, Metropolitan Classical Ballet trots outs its Bolshoi-inspired version Friday for four perfo...
A Turn (and Jump) for the Better
TBT’s Nutcracker has always been a pleasure but is a must-see this season.Stage
From a humble American beginning at the San Francisco Ballet under war-rationing restrictions in 1944, The Nutcracker has become a national Christmas tradition, performed by seemingly every dance company in the country, every y...
Still Crackin’
Big TicketDecember is Nutcracker month, and Texas Ballet Theater trots out its luxurious version of the popular Tchaikovsky Christmas story, offering four performances beginning Friday in Bass Performance Hall.
Colors
The battle lines on the turf of racial equality are clearly drawn in Jubilee Theatre’s Permanent Collection.Kultur
With recent controversies surrounding the so-called Jena Six and the Duke lacrosse team rape fiasco, it’s hard to think of a more timely play than Jubilee Theatre’s current, rough-rattling production of Thomas Gibbons’ Pe...
TBT Comes to Life
KulturTexas Ballet Theater’s performances of Coppelia last weekend in Bass Performance Hall fulfilled a promise made several years ago.
Leaps and Bounds
Big TicketTexas Ballet Theater revives Coppélia this weekend in Bass Performance Hall, with four performances of Ben Stevenson’s popular version of the evening-length classic. Four couples are scheduled to dance the romantic leads of ...