The full membership of the locked-out musicians of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will decide today whether to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement that would cut each one’s salary by about $20,000 a year. The proposed contract is largely the same management offer that was rejected in late August by the eight-member negotiating committee of the…
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Players Association has submitted a new proposal to ASO management, and both sides have confirmed that talks are taking place. The musicians were locked out at midnight August 26 when their collective bargaining agreement expired without a new contract. “Conversations have been taking place between Atlanta Symphony Orchestra management and the…
The musicians locked out by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra last month when their collective bargaining agreement expired have decided to bypass the middleman and put on their own concerts this week. As ArtsATL first reported late Saturday night, the ASO Players Association will perform free benefit concerts at the Center for the Arts at North…
Wabi Sabi, the off-season chamber group founded by veteran Atlanta Ballet dancer John Welker in 2011, returns to the familiar environs of the Atlanta Botantical Garden on Thursday evening, September 20. The performance will feature five new original works by emerging choreographers, including two by Atlanta Ballet dancers Tara Lee and Peng-Yu Chen. Also to be performed are…
The musicians of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra announced late Friday night that they will perform two benefit concerts on Thursday and Friday, September 20 and 21. Michael Palmer, former associate conductor of the ASO, will conduct. The program will be announced next week. The performances will start at 8 p.m. at the Center for the Arts at North…
Dancer John Welker has spent nearly all his professional career with Atlanta Ballet. He was plucked at the age of 18 from Ballet West in Salt Lake City by John McFall, then in his first months as Atlanta Ballet’s artistic director. Welker came as a package deal with his new bride, Christine Winkler, a ballerina who…
For three evenings last weekend, the gloATL dance troupe took over the Old Fourth Ward Skatepark for what ArtsATL’s Cynthia Bond Perry called a “once in a lifetime artistic experience.” It was choreographer Lauri Stallings’ latest site-specific piece: “the search for the exceptional: a work on a theme of intimacy.” The dancers worked in and around…
Atlanta Ballet dancer Tara Lee describes “Pavo” as a story of transformation, the struggle to recognize the unhealthy cycles we adopt in life and the greater struggle to break free of them. The ballet’s world premiere of “Pavo” marks the third time that Lee, one of the company’s leading dancers, has stepped out of her dancing…
The past few weeks have been a blur for Atlanta Ballet’s Tara Lee. There are daily rehearsals for a world premiere by choreographer Helen Pickett, called “Prayer of Touch,” in which Lee has a leading role. Then, after that, there’s a second daily rehearsal for yet another world premiere, “Pavo,” choreographed by … Tara Lee….
Saiah, a new Atlanta theatrical group, aims high with its first production, “Rua | Wülf,” which premiered April 11 at the Goat Farm Arts Center and uses the 12-acre facility as a roaming stage for a modern take on the tale of “Little Red Riding Hood.” While ArtsATL critic Jim Farmer thought that the play’s storyline falters,…
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