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Ballet

A collection of 15 issues

Brighton Ballet Offers Southern Brooklyn Tweak To “The Nutcracker” With Emphasis On Cultural Diversity

Photo from a previous BBT performance of The Nutcracker.by Jennifer Szulman The 27-year-old Brighton Ballet Theater/School of Russian American Ballet (BBT) will be one of only three schools in Brooklyn this winter to perform a version of the classic ballet The Nutcracker, and theirs will offer a distinct

Covenant Ballet Theatre Saved!

Dance scholarship recipient, Mikhail Calliste, and CBTB Artistic Director, Marla Hirokawa. (Photo courtesy of Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn, Inc., 2010)The Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn (CBTB) will keep on dancing. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/coney-island-ballet-school-saved-article-1.1424466] that the theater

Covenant Ballet Theater Looking For Funds To Recover From Sandy

Dance scholarship recipient, Mikhail Calliste, and CBTB Artistic Director, Marla Hirokawa. (Photo courtesy of Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn, Inc., 2010)The Covenant Ballet Theater of Brooklyn [/dance-scholarships-available-to-boys-and-girls-alike/], a non-profit dance academy, needs your help. Needing $19,000 to restore its facilities to pre-Sandy conditions secure a new space, CBT

Spoke the Hub Fall Scholarship Auditions this Friday

photo via Spoke the Hub [http://www.spokethehub.org/perform/young-artists-concert/] Community arts center Spoke the Hub is holding general scholarship auditions [http://www.spokethehub.org/2012/08/spoke-the-hubs-scholarship-auditions/] for their dance program this Friday, September 7th, from 4:30 to 6:30. They’re looking for young dancers with

Original Art In Southern Brooklyn? Check With Covenant

Red Scare, Photo: Barry YanowitzI hear from many of my fellow Brooklynites, usually the Wisconsin-born hipster of the north, that Southern Brooklyn is a cultural wasteland. “There’s no dance. There’s no theater. There’s no music. There’s no food worth a damn.” Frankly, they’re wrong. We