Review: Ballet Austin II's 'Peter and the Wolf'

Courtesy Planning Ahead, Austin  Tue, 09/15/2009 - 10:48am

Ballet Austin’s Associate Director Michelle Martin opened “Peter and the Wolf” with a brief Ballet 101 lesson, explaining to the crowd of children in the Austin Ventures Theatre Saturday that ballet is a non-verbal art.

Part of the fun of watching ballet with a room of kids is that they refuse non-verbal spectatorship.

As the members of Ballet Austin II, the apprentice company for Ballet Austin, danced Stephen Mills’ choreography to music by Sergei Prokofiev spontaneous reviews popped out...



 

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