Pop Filter Hot Pick: Ready to experience ballet--and the August Wilson Center--like never before? Two Pittsburgh cultural powerhouses are teaming up to launch a collaborative new approach to dance programming which promises to provide audiences with a rare intimate look at ballet, and breathe new life into the Downtown-based African-American Cultural Center.
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre unveils Uncommon
Pop Filter Hot Pick: Ready to experience ballet--and the August Wilson Center--like never before? Two Pittsburgh cultural powerhouses are teaming up to launch a collaborative new approach to dance programming which promises to provide audiences with a rare intimate look at ballet, and breathe new life into the Downtown-based African-American Cultural Center.
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At the risk of jinxing my own expectations this is going to be an incredible experience to watch. the article describes the show being comprised of classical music and contemporary movement should be an interesting experiment and a potentially effective attraction point to younger generations. I enjoy some particular well done ballet pieces but have trouble truly being interested. how ever i have an obsession with contemporary/Modern Ballet that pushes the boundaries of the embodying perfection style of ballet.
If only I were a bit less broke so that I could actually see this show! Maybe we could collect some humans and try to get a group discount or something. $50+ is a little over my budget, which is too bad, because this show looks extremely great. It's exciting that they are having these performances in such a relatively small space, at least for a ballet. It's typically such an enormous production that having a ballet in this kind of intimate space will only add to the modernized feel, I think. I wonder if they will accomplish what they have set out to do, drawing an audience of all the classical ballet fans as well as a younger, newer audience. The design of the audience is a pretty clear indicator that they're trying hard for the younger audience, but I wonder if that might push away the more classically inclined audience members. Nearly naked is not how you would generally think of a ballet being performed, although it does make for an eye-catching poster.
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