Ballet Austin News

 
Ballet Austin dance competition kickoff
Austin News
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Ballet Austin is gearing up for 4th biennial New American Talent/Dance competition and Stephen Mills, the artistic director at Ballet Austin, joined us in the studio today to talk about how the three-day event will work.


 
Muscle and skin wow the crowd at Celebrity Dance Challenge
Duluth News Tribune
Solomon Witherspoon and Suzanne Kritzberg dance the paso doble on Thursday night during the Minnesota Ballet Celebrity Dance Challenge at Marshall School in Duluth. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com) The People's Choice Award winner greeted the ...

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A new way of thinking using the body of the dancer: Ballet Austin's New ...
CultureMap Austin
Ballet Austin's New American Talent/Dance project is one method of dance creation that, to me, allows young dance makers to tell us what's on their minds. Through metaphor and gesture, dance has a unique ability to cut through artifice and decoration ...

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New Ken native opens ballet school in Oakmont
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
New Kensington native Michael Villella, who has danced professionally with Ballet Austin II and the Oklahoma City Ballet, says he is providing the region with one of the few dance schools dedicated solely to this traditional form of dance, ...

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Ballet Austin's New American Talent/Dance competition puts finalists' fate in ...
CultureMap Austin
By Caitlin M. Ryan At a high-art performance such as the ballet or the symphony, you wouldn't dare reach into your bag or pocket and pull out your cell phone. However, next month, Ballet Austin is asking its audience to do just that.


 
Austin Chronicle
Brute force ballet: The Trockaderos steamroll through Austin en point and in drag
CultureMap Austin
By Caitlin M. Ryan If the only way you know to survive a ballet is to fall asleep, you might want to check out Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. This ballet is no snoozefest. In fact, The Trocks, as the dancers affectionately call themselves, ...
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte CarloAustin Chronicle

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Adding value to Austin's art community: Ballet Austin looks to the future
CultureMap Austin
By Stephen Mills Ballet Austin Artistic Director Stephen Mills submitted this essay as part of our Imagine Austin's Future special series. When I arrived in Austin 23 years ago, I expected to find a small, desolate Texas town filled with brush and ...