You probably remember the first time you saw the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz.” The world of black and white suddenly bursting into color. The music. The dream. The […]
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INTRODUCTIONS: Meet Zack Frongillo and Jillian Ley
Zack is a guest artist for Savannah Ballet Theatre, and Jillian is a company member. They both just closed out performances in SBT’s production of “Sleepy Hollow” at the Tybee […]
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Savannah Ballet Theatre presents original adaptation of ‘Sleepy Hollow’
Don’t lose your head! Just in time for Halloween you can experience one of America’s greatest legends come to life as Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman will be set […]
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Moscow Ballet stages Great Russian Nutcracker with local focus
What makes this touring version special to Savannah, however, is the inclusion of a local ballet dancers between the ages of 6 and 18
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Savannah Ballet’s Jack The Ripper tells tale from a new perspective
‘We didn’t want to make up something to please the audience. This is all history.’
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Off to see the ‘Wizard of Oz’
It’s a story that has reached generations of people and continues a legacy unlike maybe any other in the history of literature and film
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The legend of ‘Sleepy Hollow’ lives on at Savannah Ballet Theater
TO CELEBRATE the milestone of 20 seasons, the Savannah Ballet Theater is pulling out all the stops. The local dance institution is set to tackle Washington Irving’s classic Sleepy Hollow […]
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The plum diary
Everybody dance now! In The Nutcracker, a little girl named Clara has a series of increasingly strange (some might say pseudo–psychedelic) dreams in which toys come to life and dance, […]
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Raising the barre
For her spring production, Savannah Arts Academy artistic director Christina Powell decided to forgo the standard kid–ballet repertoire and look to something that hadn’t really been done before – at […]
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Get crackin’
It’s last call at Club Sweets. Saturday’s performance of Swingin’ at Club Sweets will be the final one for the young dance students of The Studio. Director Veronica Moretti Niebuhr […]
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‘A full-length ballet that makes sense’
It’s a safe bet that not too many young people today know what a nutcracker is (it’s a simple mechanical device for cracking the shells of nuts, to get to […]
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“It is the beat of my heart”
LAST YEAR, THE LUCAS THEATRE TRIED SOMETHING a little different. They booked a touring dance production called Tango Buenos Aires — a 20-piece group of musicians and dancers performing fast-paced […]