Monday, November 16, 2020
Washington Ballet partners with Marquee TV for its new season
The Washington Post: A career in ballet, like any athletic pursuit, is inherently finite. So when the pandemic forced the Washington Ballet to put its pirouettes on pause this spring, artistic director Julie Kent wasn’t going to let her company of 40-plus dancers lay dormant indefinitely.
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I think the partnership between Marquee TV and The Washington Ballet is great! This article points out a very important thing that if dancers stop dancing for a year they may never be able to go back to dancing because of how important their body and the work they do every day is to the art form of Ballet. I think it is great that people are realizing that dancing with the restrictions of wearing a mask and only dancing with those specific people in their pod is better than the alternative which is not dancing at all–something I don’t think any dancer wants. I really do think it is great they want to continue this approach through hybrid seasons moving forward and not make it just for this year. Seeing how much more accessible art and live entertainment have been through this pandemic and the virtual options of so many things really make me happy, and I am glad that companies want to keep that aspect of what they are doing moving forward.
4) This is such wonderful news! I am a huge ballet buff so whenever I see articles like this show that ballet is becoming more accessible then ever before makes me so excited for the future. Ballet is similar to opera in that not everyone has the means to purchase tickets due to high ticket fees, but with this partnership this can begin to hopefully no longer be the case. Pre-pandemic opera and ballet were taking huge strides with this by live-streaming productions from the Met and from other places all around the world in local cinemas. These artforms have been around for hundreds of years and it makes me so scared sometimes to see that they are fading in popularity for today’s modern audiences. I like to believe that the main reason they are fading in popularity is due to their expensive tickets, so having this partnership with Marquee TV and with cinemas when they return will be such an amazing thing.
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