Ballet Tuesdays return to Landmark Center

Ballet Tuesdays are making a return to the Landmark Center today. Yes, and it's free. The free show. It's all about making the arts more accessible. Shane Wells has more for us from St. Paul. Good morning from the Landmark Center in St. Paul, where we're giving you a little preview of Ballet Tuesdays, which returns today. We have Amy Minow with us with the Landmark Center. Take us back. This has been going on for quite some time, this collaboration of bringing in a professional dance company. Yes, since about 2012, so over 10 years, 10 plus years. And what's the idea behind it? Well, Landmark Center is all about accessible, free programming for the arts, so making it possible for people to enjoy and experience the arts, especially some that are a little more elusive, like ballet. It's a very popular one, but not always accessible to people. What are you holding? Hi, I'm holding, this is the craft that will be going on for the program after the dance performance and then there's a dance lesson with the little kiddos so always fun to watch they'll be making these little dance characters yeah that's happening from 12 to 1 today about once a month yes once a month not every month there will be one in November then they start up again in the spring and landmarkcenter.org our website is the best source for getting that information thank you I appreciate it Zoe Henrose with us as well. She's the founder of Ballet Collaboratory and her dancers are putting on a show behind us right now. Okay, so I always think of little kids as I was a dancer and the way they see ballerinas and they see dancers and they just kind of light up. You get to see that front row, you're not in a stage where it's all dark around, you get to see everything. What is that like? Well, you can never know exactly what's gonna happen. Sometimes they come on stage with us. We are kind of used to working with younger kids in our school because we start at age three and then here a lot of them come and they dance with us at the end of the program and then the dancers do crafts with them as well so it's really a way to break that fourth wall between the professional artist and then aspiring young artists and it's a nice short concise like like a concise show for kids too who we know have short attention spans yes and it's only becoming shorter so we try to keep the dancing portion to like 30 or 35 minutes and then after that the dance with us is inspired by whatever ballet they just saw so they get to be the different characters and then the craft is also inspired by the ballet so that's why we're doing little dolls because there's a whole toy shop scene in Coppélia. Thank you so much for the time I appreciate it thanks for getting the dancers here early this morning too as they have a long day ahead this show again happens from 12 to 1 today it is free here at the Landmark Center and next month they're doing their version of Nutcracker as well, but that will send it back to you.