![]() ![]() Now he resides in Austin to spend some time with us.ĭaniel Kopp of Austin Camerata is the leader of that organization that plays a lot of award-winning music. While with Graham he performed lead roles in such world-changing art as Appalachian Spring and Diversion of Angels. His experience includes training, teaching, and performance stints with Limon Dance Company and the Martha Graham company, Graham 2. Ty Graynor is the consummate well-sculpted power dancer and, like A.J., is well versed and experienced in ballet and modern/contemporary forms. They are thoroughly accessible in the show. ![]() With this background, blended forms come easily to A.J. Thence to Austin, Ventana Ballet, and Kaleidoscope. Her training credits cover five column inches of text and include much training in ballet, jazz, and contemporary technique, including under scholarship with such luminary institutions as the Alvin Ailey School and Joffrey Jazz and Contemporary. is a Houston native and founder and producing artistic director of Ventana Ballet and a partner-owner of First Street Studio in Austin. Kaleidoscope was a choreographic collaboration between A.J. As fellow haikuist Zach Matteson might appreciate, Naturally, it heightened the appreciation of all the movement played out on its exceptional floor. The choice of live music in this studio was an extravagant gift to the audience. The Draylen Mason Music Studio was built for music and has perfect acoustics. The effect was marvelously absorbing, and it gave the audience the opportunity to investigate the virtuosic stringwork of the musicians, Zach Matteson, Nick Montopoli, Karl Mitze, and Geoff Manyin. ![]() One of the show sections was entirely a musical piece without dance, “Syl.” That piece was both deeply serious and lightly whimsical. The show gives equal weight to music and dance, indicated by the musicians performing live upstage center during the performance. Ventana joins with the string quartet Invoke in Kaleidoscope to present music that is as varied and strong as Ventana’s dance. Ventana’s show Kaleidoscope gives us a powerful, outstanding example of showing by doing, and it announces to the world that strong, multiform dance is here to stay in Austin. Ballet purists take note widen your horizons a smidge by giving some creative attention to Ventana Ballet. Ventana Ballet says no to all that, producing dance in ballet and contemporary technique and blends of the two. Some say it is dying out, an artifact of twentieth century fine arts having no claim on the twenty-first. Review: Kaleidoscope by Ventana Ballet and Austin Camerataĭance in Austin is said to exist in a state of underfunded flux. ![]()
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