Atlanta’s Terminus Modern Ballet to perform free, Johnny Cash-themed ballets

Terminus Trendy Ballet Theatre is bringing ballets primarily based on Johnny Money, a youngsters’s basic and artistic genius in its upcoming spring and summer season seasons.

What’s occurring: In March, the acclaimed trendy ballet troupe heads to Piedmont Park to carry out free ballets set to the music of Money’s later profession — in cowboy boots, no much less — and “Peter and the Wolf.”

Sure, and: In Could, Terminus will dance to Ana Maria Lucaciu’s “Lengthy In the past and Solely As soon as,” at Kennesaw State College.

• This summer season, count on a touring residency in Florida and Terminus Ballet College performances.

Catch up fast: In 2017, among the Atlanta Ballet’s prime dancers broke off from the town’s most well-known troupe to type Terminus, their very own firm targeted on trendy ballet.

The large image: “We’re not a tutus and tiaras sort of ballet firm,” John Welker, Terminus’ co-founder and creative director, advised Axios.

• “We inform tales grounded in human expertise. We create unique works that use the wonder and the rigor of ballet” to inform tales with which individuals can determine.

What we’re watching: The Johnny Money ballet, clearly.