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Feb 26-27 @ Third Coast Dance Center, 2565 Jackson Keller Rd, San Antonio TX 78230, Beg & Adv levels, 210-863-5190, www.pilarandujar.net

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The Chaddick Dance Theater’s contemporary dance performance exploring self image, feminine energy and anger “Tender Voices in Flight” will be Feb 17-19th at 8pm and 20th at 2pm, Austin Ventures Studio Theater at Ballet Austin, 501 W. 3rd St. This event will include four evocative pieces with choreography and dance by Cheryl Chaddick and three performances by company members. Purchase tickets in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com. **A percentage of the proceeds from Thursday night’s performance will go to Safeplace.**

The Austin City Ballet is holding auditions  for

Snow White and The Sleeping Beauty

January 8th @ The Austin Conservatory of the Arts

14735 Bratton Lane, Suite 125, Austin, Texas 78728

Call 512-496-5937 for more info

www.austin-conservatory-arts.com

Tapestry Dance Co presents the jazzy rendition of everyone’s favorite holiday story entitled Of Mice And Music: A Jazz Nutcracker at the Long Center, Dec 14-19. This professional, non-profit dance company has prepared a rhythmic masterpiece of flappin’ and tappin’ feet that you can’t afford to miss this season. Sunday matinee is already sold out! To get your tickets quickly click here.

Choreography that slices open the melon, exposing the intricate life of a growing pod.  The juices rise to heal the incision willingly offering seeds and pulp for nourishment and pleasure.

Choreography that splashes the taste of chocolate in explosive man and woman, I not only savor their melding of darkness and sweetness, I bounce with them over and against and through the bitterness of cigar.

Choreography that stuns me with possibility for union, the sweet burst in my mouth, the sound of rich chocolate folding and gushing over my tongue and into every cell with a pleasure of longing for this moment to never end.

And in this moment of longing, choreography points the way inside man and woman where pain envelops exuberance and births new life.

Thank you to:  Voice Dance Company, Gina Patterson choreographer  Dance Institute Austin 051910 

from: Tim Hurst

Watch Cult of Color by Ballet Austin on Time Warner http://www.balletaustin.org/newsletter/january10/cult.php

Extraordinary dance like Cult of Color takes me to another dimension.  Thinking becomes feeling, questioning becomes flying, sliding is definitely taking me toward a portal to the unknown.  Put Harry Potter in the satchel and get ready for a real ride.

Don’t miss Cult of Color the next time Ballet Austin Dance Company presents it live.

Modern dancers explore into the depths of emotion.  In an extreme example, KDHdance company took on the theme of “Alone, alone.”  The journey is one of courage for the choreographer facing an empty nest.  Aloneness and lonliness are so charged in our culture that most times we accept it and refuse to find the time to look at it.  We usually react to”alone” with extreme journeys into therapy, meditation, depression, divorce, workshops, retreats, and multi-level marketing.

KDHdance tackles the job of jumping into water over our heads and exploring to find a way back to shore.  “Alone, alone” is an encyclopedic exploration of a hard look into the depths of the emotion, the turmoil, the demands of swimming again and again to the bottom and again to the top, winding and unwinding through entangling metaphoric weeds, shedding fear, gulping, and recommiting.

“Alone” is such a difficult theme because dance choreographers have taken as their territory a consistent theme of  the battle and struggle in relationships.  Aloneness and loneliness are a fact we accept and connecting with other people, our world, or a higher power we see as a job.

Making the job even more difficult, “Alone,’ works within the traditional relationships of Modern and other contemporary dance.  Aloneness is a major mode.  Dancers approach their own feelings and project them.  Connections between dancers are to direct, to assist, to join breifly before returning to an alone dance.  Unison dances are a series of lone dancers agreeing to make a statement together.  Even friendship or romanctic bonds are understood as a frame for being left “alone.”  Because all the relationships are characterized by aloneness, it becomes especially difficult to explore outside the  realm of the individual’s feelings and emotions.

Brilliant dancers again and again pull us out of our denial to look into the depths of aloneness and loneliness.  The entire show is book-ended beginning and ending with moving and somehow tender performances by Ryan Parent and Andrea Williams.

Building brain maps for dancers, artist, and entrepreneurs is the focus of Mettler Improvisation  http:/www.dancecreative.org soul.dance419@gmail.com Communication skills, and team building all happens in this challenging dance form.  The goal is to completely enter a group dance while at the same time each individual’ brings their unique flavor to the dance.

Technical training focuses on a responsive  body that  goes past the expected.  Training of the imagination emphasizes personal interaction, using  musical elements  such as rhythm, meter, dynamics, and the making of sounds while moving.