Tag: Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education
Former Atlanta Ballet artistic director Robert “Bobby” Barnett turns 101
Robert “Bobby” Barnett, a longtime Atlanta Ballet artistic director, turned 101 this month. “My wife and I moved here in 1958 after retiring from the New York City Ballet,” he says. Then, Bobby and his wife, Virginia (“Ginger”), became principal dancers and associate directors for the Atlanta Civic Ballet.
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Sharon Story
If you’ve had a child involved with any Atlanta Ballet dance program over the last twenty years, you’ve been impacted by Sharon Story. The fifty-something former professional ballerina oversees the Ballet’s Centre for Dance...
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“And one and two and three and four,” the instructor drilled, her straight leg flying in rapid fire. “Close front, close front, close back, close back.” Or something like that. We’d just started a beginner ballet class, and already I was lost.
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