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http://www.balletaustin.org/  Stephen Mills musicaliy brings an extraordinary dimension to Mozart.

Children’s brains eat Mozart like candy.  What are adults waiting for—a ballet to illustrate Mozart for our stalled out brains.

Cartoons won’t do.  Only the deepest level of intricate movement and emotion can explode Mozart’s full delight into our senses.  Only a Mozart ballet feast will integrate the playful melodies we take for granted, send rhythmic delight bouncing through our lethargic cells, and insist that we rearrange our thoughts to take courage once again.

Musicality in dance goes beyond the delight of hearing Mozart with Stephen Mills and Ballet Austin http://www.balletaustin.org/

One boy  got a family of 6 dancing.  http://www.balletaustin.org/newsletter/may10/rafferty.php “It all started when Ian, my middle son, asked a simple question when he was 8 years old. “Mommy, how do those kids get to be on stage with the dancers?” My family was attending Ballet Austin’s Nutcracker for the first time. I told him that that those kids studied ballet at Ballet Austin’s Academy. That was the last I heard about it…or so I thought. The following summer I became aware of the Academy’s Boys Scholarship Class taught by Ms. Bravo. I thought, why not? It couldn’t hurt, and the boys might really get something out of it. And so our journey began.”  Phyllis Rafferty, Ballet Austin

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.

Ballet Austin Promotion Rocks, now the Austin Swizzle team joins them for more high powered heat.   http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2010/02/22/daily55.html

@Ballet Austin brings Truth and Beauty to a grand scale.  So much to experience in one evening.

@BalletAustin  Don’t miss the Bach Project by Stephen Mills, see video blog at http://www.balletaustin.org/atb/BachProject2010.php

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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