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Last day of Sale at Movin Easy, Sunday 081310 What’s the buzz on a Sale at Movin’ Easy in 2010?  Fabulous is all there is of course.  Fabulous dancers and moms and dads rubbing elbows in a space that should seem as huge as Macy’s.  Nooks and crannies of fabulous treasures capturing all eyes with colors and bodice shapes and stiletto-esk shapely shoes.

That’s not all of the fabulous of course.  Movin Easy has a new fabulous shape, blossoming with a fabulous new dancing floor and two new windows right in front bringing even more fabulousness of splashing light.

And not to forget even for a second the fabulous attention and celebration each dancer receives from the Dancewear Specialists at Movin Easy.  On a busy morning it is much like laughing fairies rushing through the woods guiding the princes and princesses and all their attendants and patrons and their admirers to find the perfect fitting slipper and the most flattering wardrobe.

Whether I join the flurry of the fairies or simply explore the woodland stories dancing through each person there, I am thoroughly in awe of so much flourishing fabulousness.

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

www.balletaustin.org

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

www.balletaustin.org

Musical Theatre Workshop

Heard at Movin’ Easy.  “I never knew that crunches could be that much fun. I take Ballet Fit at Ballet Austin and they really whip you into shape.”  Errin said, “I have to take that class.  I take Modern right next door and Ballet Fit is always packed.  It does look like so much fun.”

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.

I keep returning to a basic realization that my happiness and satisfaction is primary to the way I treat myself and those around me. Whatever I choose to feel overflows and creates more of the same.

Throughout my career at Movin’ Easy I have tried to venture out and do something different. I push myself beyond my limits over and over.  At the time I feel that it is necessary to change either financially, creatively, or personally.  Then I come back to center, get a perspective on my struggle, and realize that where I belong is at Movin’ Easy.  When I thought of doing something else, I was always brought back to the great contribution that Movin’ Easy makes to dancers’ well being and to the growth of the community as a whole.

When I wanted to be more creative and leave the business, the message was “The business is your greatest poem.”

When I wanted to go back to teaching, the message was “teach your staff to build the world they want at Movin’ Easy.”

When I wanted to go into spiritual work, the message was “make Movin’ Easy a place of instant transformation that changes us and our customers the minute they enter.”

When I wanted to organize communities for greater cooperation, the message was “make Movin’ Easy the connector that inspires the greatness and uniqueness in each group.”

When I wanted to change the educational system, the message was “support the dancers who are already the explorers of what education really means.”

When I wanted to be a counselor or therapist, the message was “cultivate the connections with Movin’ Easy employees so that we all grow in positive ways in the ways we treat each other and our customers.”