Movin' Easy Dancewear

I admire the trust and courage in the creative process demonstrated by the directors of ” The Holiday Road.”  Austin is full of interesting and talented people, but taking whomever walks through the door and creating a Musical Theater production with them!  That is a risk.  A high intensity risk.  Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique are adventurous to direct this Musical Theater event with an ever changing “mystery cast” (could be you!)

So this time I walk through their door.  Now I feel it is my risk, and the risk that each of the others has taken, when signing up to be there every week.  We give of ourselves to a script not yet written.  I feel an anxious hope like one of the characters from The Chorus Line.  “Will they see me?”  “Will I be the one?”  There are days when I choke…I want to sing out, but my baggage gets in the way.  Or I just can’t pick up that step-kick-turn for the life of me.  I leave deflated.  “What was I thinking?”  Then there are days when I project and delight in the power and freedom of my voice.  I fly from one spin to another with the greatest of ease.  “Aren’t they lucky I’m here.”

What part will I play in this unfolding work?  I look around and see that we all have an essential part.  Our roles become evident, big or small, in this Musical Theater mystery.  We trust our directors and have the courage to walk through that door every week.  We face ourselves, we give what we can, and discover the next clue.

mia

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Musical Theater Workshop

A Musical Theatre Workshop?  Who me?  Yes folks, I surprised my self by being drawn to it.  Maybe it was the charisma and infectious enthusiasm of Ballet Austin’s Butler Community School Broadway instructors, Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique, when I tried a Broadway Fit Class.  Maybe it was the sideways glance I gave myself in the mirror during a particularly coy dance number, “Hey, Good Lookin’.”  Maybe I shook something loose up there in my serious and contemplative brain during a feverish shimmy or a sexy head roll.  Whatever it was, here I am on “The Holiday Road”: a musical theatre workshop to culminate in a holiday, public performance at the Austin Ventures Theater in December.  Danny and Rocker are my guides into the unknown (unknown to me anyway). I follow them loyally into the expansive world of Broadway, where people sing with their mouths wide open and dance for the seats in the back.  Who would of thunk it?  Well, here we go shy girl.

Mia

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Musical Theatre Workshop

Virginia’s Ballet Austin Experience

Dance class as an adult can be a little scary. Our bodies don’t recoup as quickly as a hard workout, our brains run a little bit slower than they did at age 16, and I am sure none of us look the same as we did 10 years ago.

At the Butler Community School at Ballet Austin these fears all seem to disappear. I have been taking class at Ballet Austin for about 6 months and couldn’t feel better about myself. Not only am I working out with fantastic teachers, I am invited into this amazing environment of people who make art all day and want me to get involved. And let me tell you about the facility. WOW!! State of the art to say the least.

Whether you’ve never put on a pair of dance shoes, or are just squeezing back into that leotard, everyone deserves to take a dance class at Ballet Austin.