Chattanooga Ballet offering free virtual classes through January 19th

Chattanooga Ballet offering free virtual classes through January 19th

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For more information on my disney check.com, which jack ... i told you a moment ago you hav an opportunity get some free la lessons from the chattanooga la were going to go with executive director and that is john farrell.

More ... john good morning and welcome to the broadcast good morning small correction pheromone serramonte on soria iris.

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Tell us a little bit about the history ... channel all the history is his long xmas founded in 19 founded in 19701973.

So is coming up on its 50 year anniversary and has long been of the preeminent dance school in town and then i the mid-80s all four bits.

First national company and so w also addition to the large school.

Also the only rational ballet company in the region an so on.

That's been growing and we continue to grow even now in some ways through the and and i was going to ask you how you guys have a adapted to the restrictions that the ... pandemic is put on most of society ... ballet by its very nature requires a lot of folks to be fairly close together.

Love you guys ... gotten through this part of we are outside right you know there's there's no substitute i person training so you we adapted white quickly and that mostly what we have to do is cu the number of children and adults in any class almost in half to provide all the social distance that was needed and then we also in a very strict and fairly comprehensive early comprehensive cleaning protocols that touching bars like that.

So we have adapted by expanding the number of classes so we can have less people in each class that and also demand mandatory masks from the moment you walk into the moment you leave, which some people might raised her eyebrows about doing ballet hialeah masks ... everyone has adapted for success ... .

Tell us a little bit about both belly of the park and the video ... nutcracker ... ottawa you know that is part of the adaptation of obviously doing performances in theater were poor sitting shoulder to shoulder was simply not going t happen both from safety and the theaters were just ... clothes so what artistic director and i did do was we di create a ballet heart.

Why don't park in red bay was very successful.

We had over ... 450 for each particle or messes up what that did was allow people the outside to be socially distance and still you enjoy a performance and been yoga nutcracker is arguably one of the largest you know arts events in the recent year tivoli couldn't do that so we wound up filming the entirety of nine different locations and it was broadcasting streamed by wtc are so very very creative gel.

I think creative's get creative, you know, in this particular case.

If you couldn' go to the ballet the ballet ... came to you and now you guys are in the process of offering some ... free ballet classes correct that is correct and it's it's free to everyone, not just the people were enrolled in the reason for doing this again you want talk about adaptation is when dr. lee signed the order that runs through january 19, limiting th number be in direct right.

Obviously we respect, we respect and so what we did was move our entire semester starting january starting january 4.

We moved it back to the night team but again we have the ability to live stream classes and so that is what we are doing anybody who would lik to log on and see those units for everyone from three-year- olds all the way up ... well and ballet is one of those disciplines that will improve your strength ... reading your overall physical coordination.

Your ... mental and your physical discipline.

It's just a sub.

There's a lot more ... to it than what a casual observer ... .

Lights ... it's very true everything you just mentioned, plus violence flexibility is shocking.

We are letter i think what's fascinating is professional ballet dancers make look so easy and fast order art when it's you know such a demand on your body sure, so it's great for kids.

Great for adults and the if you just like to see what happens i last.

This might be a good opportunity to jog on.

We'll leave it there.

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