Four Ballets, One Year, One Painter
Web Bryant
September 5-November 5
Manassas Ballet Theatre is a local treasure, the largest professional ballet company in Northern Virginia. Web Bryant spent an entire year observing, sketching and painting these extraordinary dancers. His works in oils and pastels encompass all four ballets in the troupe’s 2017-2018 season, including rehearsals, performances, and candid backstage moments. Before turning to fine art, Bryant was a senior illustrator at USA Today for 30 years. He teaches at the Yellow Barn Studio at Glen Echo Park and is a member of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters. Meet the artist at the reception September 22, 7-9 pm, and enjoy a brief excerpt from the upcoming Manassas Ballet Theatre’s production of Dracula.
*Web will be featured as our artist for the Historic Manassas Fall Gallery Walk, Friday, November 2 (6-9 pm). Stay tuned for more info!
About the Artist:
“I turned to oil painting and fine art after a long career designing
and illustrating some of the great newspapers in our country, including
USA Today. The deadline-driven world of journalism required mediums
that could be executed quickly. I started out with watercolors and then
mastered digital painting with pixels. Now, I’m using oil glazing and
other techniques of the Old Masters, and learning to be patient.
My paintings combine a journalistic eye for the narrative, and an intimate view of the passing moment. I paint real places and real people. Places you want to go, and people you would like to meet.”
For more information about Web, please visit: http://webbryant.com/
About Manassas Ballet Theatre:
The Company consists of 29 adult professional dancers supported by an
Artistic Director, Ballet Masters and other technical and administrative
personnel. Each season, MBT presents four productions, totaling 22
performances at the Hylton Performing Arts Center, while offering six
Educational Outreach performances each season at the Hylton for over
6,000 area public school students. The Company dancers of MBT come from
eleven different countries. Annually, over 100 dancers audition to join
MBT’s company, some travelling from as far away as China, Brazil, Japan
and the Near East.