The ballet world is not on pause. We are actually moving faster than ever. It’s said that every theatre is inhabited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propagated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theatre’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offstage, each day adding pressure to find performance spaces on digital platforms. What happens when the ghos ..read more

The local audiences and bare-bones sets are thus not sad downsizes but rather exciting opportunities. It’s said that every theatre is inhabited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propagated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theatre’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offstage, each day adding pressure to find performance spaces on digital platforms ..read more

An industry of artistic professionals out of work adds to the looming eviction crisis and the severe explosion of Americans without health insurance, both of which disproportionately fall on BIPOC individuals. In late May, superstar ballerina Maria Kochetkova posted a ghostly photo of the Berliner Ensemble theatre on her Instagram: An aerial shot of what was supposed to be the audience’s thicket of red velvet seats was now an otherworldly scene of deforestation. Every third or fourth seat had been unbolted and ripped from the ground, leaving socially distant pods of one and two-seat arrangeme ..read more

Enter Houston Ballet: Suddenly a ray of sunshine in the sea of gray clouds, the company gracefully disrupted the depression of ballet’s 2020 existence. It’s said that every theatre is inhabited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propagated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theatre’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offstage, each day adding pr ..read more

With their feet pointed in both factual and theoretical worlds, dancers cross boundaries that few others can. It’s said that every theatre is inhabited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propagated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theatre’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offstage, each day adding pressure to find performance spaces on digit ..read more

YouTube collection The future is always unknown, but right now it’s distinctly hard to think about. Cancelled shows and closed studios make it increasingly more difficult to envision our way out, but do not let ballet’s delicate nature fool you — she is a sturdy and stubborn art form, here for us in sickness as much as she is in health. Join me to twirl around some of the artifacts from her history and maybe we’ll discover something new about the present. A lot of ballet is hard to access — most works made in the 20th and 21st centuries are copyrighted by choreographer’s trusts and the ballet ..read more

Coronavirus is not going to let us back onstage anytime soon, but Howard’s Juneteenth celebration teaches us that perhaps we can make this hiatus an opportunity. It’s said that every theatre is inhabited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propagated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theatre’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offstage, each day ..read more

As “Nutcracker” rain checks itself into 2021, we must recognize the ramifications of its loss. It’s said that every theatre is inhabited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propagated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theatre’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offstage, each day adding pressure to find performance spaces on digital platforms. W ..read more

Movie, premiered 2017. ,,Quarantine Curtain Call: The future is always unknown, but right now it’s distinctly hard to think about. Cancelled shows and closed studios make it increasingly more difficult to envision our way out, but do not let ballet’s delicate nature fool you — she is a sturdy and stubborn art form, here for us in sickness as much as she is in health. Join me to twirl around some of the artifacts from her history and maybe we’ll discover something new about the present.  ,As a guideline, movies borne out of television programs never feel destined for greatness. Accordingl ..read more

Well-packaged dissections of ballet’s history — its full intersectional history — could be what the ballet world needs to continue its push for change while remaining online. It’s said that every theatre is inhabited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propagated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theatre’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offst ..read more