Jennifer Lauren learned that the company would be closing the studios because of coronavirus, she knew she needed to find a way to keep dancing. The floors of her apartment are slippery concrete — not the safest to dance on — but she remembered that MCB had replaced its studios’ Marley vinyl floors last summer.
“There was all this leftover Marley, so I asked, and the stage manager said, ‘Of course, have a little tiny piece,'” Lauren says. “It’s like three feet by five feet. That was saving me because I can actually dance on pointe a little bit.”
She ordered a ballet barre from Amazon and created a makeshift mini studio for herself.
When your job revolves around being physical and dancing in the studio every day, transitioning to staying at home is a big adjustment. Artists like those at MCB have had to get creative in order to stay in shape and feed their appetite for movement.
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