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Article: FINANCIAL WOES FORCE CLEVELAND SAN JOSE BALLET TO CANCEL SEASON.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
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- November 1, 2000
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Cleveland San Jose Ballet was preparing to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary when its trustees abruptly suspended operations, canceled the season, terminated its contract with forty-one dancers and laid off forty administrative employees. The reason: a lack of money. Shortly thereafter, San Jose moved to pick up the pieces.
On August 25, board president Bob Jones announced that the company needed to raise $1 million within two weeks in order to open the season with artistic director Dennis Nahat's Celebrations and Ode, an evening-length Beethoven ballet. Although the company could not make payroll that day, the dancers and staff were confident that the ...