Lindsay Koob, City Paper‘s dance critic, says the Charleston Ballet Theatre announced that it needs to raise some $180,000 by the end of the year. The news came just before the CBT performed its Charleston-oriented version of The Nutcracker. What happens if the dance troupe doesn’t? We don’t know yet, but we’ll track it down this week.
Nobody was surprised when CBT Board President Charles Patrick and choreographer Jill Eathorne Bahr mounted the stage beforehand, hats in hand.
Like the Charleston Symphony and other local performing arts entities, the CBT faces potential financial doom in the wake of our continuing global economic meltdown.
But after Patrick spelled out the likely curtailment of coming spring performances if they can’t raise $180,000 by the New Year, Bahr still promised a glittering Nutcracker — the likes of which we’ve never seen before around here. And her crack company proceeded to deliver just that.
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