Have you seen this amazing round-table discussion, courtesy of PBS arts correspondent, Jeffrey Brown? We’ve included the video from Part One below and Part Two can be viewed here.
“Ballet in America was once dominated by a few major companies and concentrated in New York and a handful of other cities. But today there are more than 65 professional, million-dollar-budget ballet companies all around the country.
Last week, nine of these companies brought together for a series of performances titled ‘Ballet Across America’ at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
{Jeffrey Brown} spoke to three of the companies’ artistic directors about the state of ballet in America: Dorothy Gunther Pugh, founder and artistic director of Ballet Memphis; Ashley Wheater, former ballet master of San Francisco Ballet and current director of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet; and Ib Andersen, artistic director of Ballet Arizona and member of the George Balanchine Trust, the organization responsible for preserving and licensing the late choreographer’s work.” ~ Quote PBS NewsHour at PBS.org.
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