Join Before July 1st and Receive 2 Free Tickets to any Ballet This Season Ballet Spartanburg, the only resident Professional Company in the Upstate, is offering 2 additional tickets to members who join before July 1. “Our 2017-2018 season is a season...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS CRITIC Ballet Spartanburg layers this celebrated expatriate story with divine dance, a jaunty Gershwin score, torch singers and even a can-can, all amongst the lightsome backdrop of the French capital. Artistic Director and choreographer Carlos Agudelo...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS CRITIC Ballet Spartanburg celebrated International Women’s Month this weekend with two tantalizing performances of its 9th annual Dansynergy program of original works that integrate dance with other art disciplines. “Celebrating the Power of Women” featured four...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC When an American soldier, enchanted by the City of Lights and a beautiful brunette ballerina, decides to pursue a career as an artist, the stage is set, literally, for the epic love story – and...
The snow is falling, the lights are all strung and the stockings are hung. Yes, the holiday arts season boards Santa’s sleigh officially on Thursday, December 1 as dozens of yuletide-themed plays, musicals, chorales, ballets and symphonies don their ugliest...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS CRITIC Sailing into its 50th anniversary season, Ballet Spartanburg presented the first of five original ballets last night with “The Little Mermaid.” But don’t expect the Disney version of this tale of the mermaid who longs...
