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Ballet meets baseball in this Chattanooga performance

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Dancers posed in baseball uniform costumes.

CHA Ballet Co. presents this inspiring combination of history and fine arts.

Photos courtesy Wizardly Studios, featuring CHA Ballet Company Dancers Mary Kate Shearer and Pierceton Mazell

Root, root, root for the ballerinas. Curveball, an original story-ballet inspired by a local female baseball phenom, premieres Friday, April 11-Sunday, April 13.

While pitching for the Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931, Jackie Mitchell struck out two Yankee legends: Babe Ruth + Lou Gehrig. Chattanooga Ballet brings a story inspired by Mitchell from field to stage with humor, jazz + big band music, nostalgic costumes, and, in baseball tradition, a seventh-inning stretch.

Psst... Catch a post-show talk during CHA Alumni Night on April 11.

Showtimes + tickets

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