“We are a rebellious group of ballet dancers that thrives on calculated risks,” Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre Artistic Director John Welker told ArtsATL regarding its upcoming Rhapsody in Gershwin program. “It’s a tough time for the arts, right? The knee-jerk reaction is to play it safe, but I think that’s the wrong response, especially with…
In this series, ArtsATL asks a member of the Atlanta arts community to share 11 things on their mind. We hope you enjoy getting to know these people better. :: John Welker is director of Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre. Before co-founding the company in 2017, he danced for many years with the Atlanta Ballet in lead roles…
For most Atlanta dance companies, coping with uncertainty from season to season is a fact of life. Financial precarity makes long-term planning difficult — sometimes impossible. Which is precisely why Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre’s ambitious new project inspired by Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has been eight years in the making. “We feel like high schoolers…
Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre has moved through many changes and challenges this year. Its fall season will reveal how resilient and creative the company continues to be. For the second year in a row, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre will not be performing the holiday favorite Marley Was Dead, To Begin With. A unique take…
Before the pandemic, John Welker, artistic director of Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, invited emerging choreographer Nadine Barton to create a work for the company. Covid-19 postponed discussions about the ballet for a couple of years, but finally the two of them reconnected in 2023. Welker was thrilled. “It’s really nice to come full circle and…
In July 2022, when ArtsATL toured what was to become the White Box Theater at Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre’s new Buckhead studios, it was an empty, barren warehouse of a space, filled with light but not much else. On Saturday, it had been transformed by the company’s love and labor into an inviting lobby and…
Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre has been through a lot of ups and downs since it was founded six years ago, but a consistent thread has been director John Welker’s commitment to creating new narrative ballets that push the art form forward. “Storytelling is a hallmark of what we do,” he says. Welker discusses that vision…
It’s always a delight to watch two friends laugh and joke with one another, especially when they are creatives who are thrilled by each other’s talents and successes. In a rollicking Zoom interview recently, John Welker, director of Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, and John Heginbotham, artistic director of New York’s Dance Heginbotham, talked about everything…
Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre‘s first live performance of Ana Maria Lucaciu’s Long Ago and Only Once delivered a privileged glimpse of what choreographer Annie-B Parson calls the “groove . . . like dance heaven” that evolves from long-term artistic collaborations. For Parson, this groove is a relationship between a choreographer and her dancers. It also…
Long ago, in 2019, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre commissioned choreographer Ana Maria Lucaciu to create a work for the company. Now, finally, four years later, after a pandemic and multiple pivots, the company will perform her evening-length contemporary ballet Long Ago and Only Once at Kennesaw State University’s Dance Theater in Marietta on May 6…
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