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Center for the Arts donates rent relief Center for the Arts JACKSON, Wyo. (KIFI)-The Center for the Arts in Jackson has announced it will provide more than $225,000 in rent relief for organizations with facilities on the Center’s campus. Funding for the program comes through a donation from the Lea Charitable Trust.  It represents a 40% reduction on the already subsidized lease rates. It’s aimed at helping the organizations deal with the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cent...

Babs Case, Dancers’ Workshop’s longtime artistic director, is “a true believer that the world doesn’t need another ‘Nutcracker.’” Each year the New York City Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and just about every other major and minor ballet company dance to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski’s 1892 symphonic imagining of E.T.A. Hoffman’s fantastical fairy tale. And yet, Case said, Dancers’ Workshop has stuck by the holiday staple, even in the face of extr...