{"id":144378,"date":"2026-02-25T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144378\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:56:09","slug":"brooklyn-ballet-launches-spring-season-soft-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144378\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Ballet launches spring season, \u2018Soft Power\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/section\/arts-and-entertainment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-359418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brooklyn-live-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\"  \/><\/a>DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 Brooklyn Ballet\u2019s spring 2026 season launches with four world premieres in \u201cSoft Power\u201d at the Mark O\u2019Donnell Theater from March 12 to March 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Parkerson, founder and artistic director of Brooklyn Ballet, told the Brooklyn Eagle, \u201cThe community and who Brooklyn is became central to the mission and to the work that we do. Whether it\u2019s the creative work or the arts education work, whether it\u2019s our board, it\u2019s really about this place and who the people are here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with three other artists, Parkerson blends classical ballet with contemporary dance to explore the dialogue between disciplines, generations, genders and cultures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoft Power\u201d launches at 160 Schermerhorn St. with five performances, including an opening night benefit and reception on Thursday, March 12, a children-friendly matinee on Saturday, March 14, and a post-performance question-and-answer panel after the Saturday evening performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 Brooklyn Ballet\u2019s spring 2026 season launches with four world premieres in \u201cSoft Power\u201d at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2571,1121,2572,3302,98,100,99,9,24,63,60582],"class_list":["post-144378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-ballet","tag-bklyn-live","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-teaser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}