Master Class

Sunday morning Sarah took a master class with the local ballet company. Her friend Rachel got tickets and talked her into going. The class was challenging but Sarah and Rachel were up to it. They both danced very well learning their combinations and even smiling!

The class took place in one of the rehearsal studios within the big performing arts center, home to the ballet, opera, and most traveling Broadway shows. It's one of the old movie theatres built in the 1920s and restored in the 1980s. During the restoration they expanded the stage to make it deeper and higher. In addition they added several rehearsal spaces as well including this one.

It was fun to be downtown on a Sunday morning, going in the stage door entrance and taking the elevator to the studio. I was expecting one of those old elevators with and expanding cage style door and an operator, but it seems they modernized the elevators with the rest of the building.

Nana also danced in this theatre in her vaudeville days entertaining folks between the "picture shows."