The Nashville Ballet’s Outreach & Education Department collaborated with Belmont’s School of Music Saturday afternoon at the Massey Performing Arts Center in a collaboration of the arts in the production of “The Emperor and the Nightingale.” A collaboration of the arts took place on Saturday afternoon as a group of Belmont percussionists and Nashville Ballet’s second company took the stage at the MPAC in the production of “The Emperor and the Nightingale.” A story of an empe

The Nashville Ballet will bring pirouettes and plies and when they present their new work, which is based on Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl.” The book, which Girl,” which most of us read in high school, is about a Jewish girl and her family and their struggle to hide from the Nazis in World War II. The special thing about this dance adaptation of the story is that it has original music by Belmont’s very own professor of music, Mark Volker. The event is 7-9:30 p.m. Friday