>> So how long has it been
since you’ve seen the Houston
Valley in action. Well, I can
tell you it’s been more than a
year while
this pandemic has shut live
performances down. Will.
That will all change on Friday
May 7. The Miller outdoor
theater. You can see here the
rehearsals going on right now
for
what is the in-car Houston
Ballet reignited and it will be
free of charge, which is kind
of nice. Joining me to talk
about this event is Stanton
Welch, the Houston Ballet
artistic director. Good morning
to you, Sir. How are excited?
Are you to be able to put on
live
performances again.
>> I’m very excited. It’s
actually a very emotional
ceiling has been for all of us
to get back to our in
person again.
>> This performance is also
being presented as a multimedia
experience which sounds
intriguing. How’s that going to
be played. Has that layout.
>> Well, because of regulations
you know, we’re really intended
to keep the Tesori say so we’ll
have some dancing. But we’ll
also have some video working
between but made over the past
year in a little bit. A lot of
dance films. So we want to
showcase boats buy-in by doing
that. That enables us to make
sure the stage is always very
safe for yes, it will. It will
be a make sure. We also have a
performance from our oldest or
2 as well.
>> That is a nice combination
of things that tell me what
that what’s been the
biggest challenge. For the
dancers of the Balla and the
ballet business during this
pandemic. 2 separate things
really. But yeah, it’s been the
biggest challenge in each of
those.
>> Well, I mean, as a person,
as a dancer. You your career
is very short-term is a real
energy to being on stage and
feeling like you’re constantly
creating. So that’s why it was
so important for us to create
a lot of our online content,
right. So I feel like that that
has being for killing. But it’s
not the same as that next.
You have a live audience not
feeling so bad that that
gasparino. They’re holding
their breath for a few, not as
an energy that the dance
is live. I think the industry
it’s it’s been devastating full
life for months. Molding shut
down across across the globe
via now starting to find our
way back. But I think, you know
that they’ll always be now an
understanding that we need to
stay online as well as in live
performance. But boy, are we
ready to.
>> A back route. Talked about
that briefly get Tell me about
the passion.
And the joy that comes from
just being on the stage and
performing you’ve been a
performer for many years.
You know what? It’s not talk
about what your dancers are
going to be going through his
area experiencing that
interacting with the crowd
again for the first time in so
long.
>> Well, I just said just make
response to describing it like
the energy of walking out on
stage and feeling that
connection and feeling the
swell of
music feeling. It’s like a
tennis match your between an
audience that the And I’m not
just takes the show deception.
A level of excellence. The
thing about life
affirming that a new contract.
Sean film is that that shows
you need to that. So that night
you never repeated even if you
have the same people singing
dancing acting every night.
Every show is a little bit
different and that’s what makes
live
shows serve. So extraordinary.
Sue like the death of that
performance. All in that
evening, Sir. It’s exciting.
It’s it’s it’s it’s going to be
nerve wracking. But I think at
the end
of that, it will feel like
they’re we’re on our way back
and what’s going to be special
about this performance other
than the fact that it’s being
alive using something unique
about this. This particular
performance saying the
real who know you know, cut
Haha stuff down. A little
is out.
>> I I I can’t even get my
brain around that healing yet
to sit there with other people
and hear that and well, we had
arrested the other day of 16
dances, which is sort of a lot
of stress, a lot of for more
than a year. So that that
energy is building. I think
that is the most exciting thing
for all of us. Well, we’re
looking forward to a covid
restrictions are in place here.
Here’s the deal. We’re going to
tell you what’s going on here.
Performances of the Friday and
Saturday May 7th and 8th.
>> Tickets are free for
reserve seating will be
available as of a week prior to
the show. So this coming
Friday, you can do that covid
restrictions are in place.
So masks will
be required.
>> You go to the Miller outdoor
theater. Dot com. You can get
more information about all of
that information. So you can
know what to expect when you
show up there. But Stanton
Welch, thank you for being here
this morning. I like you am
looking forward to May
7th and 8th. Congratulations.