Events - 3 Feb 16

We offer aerial silk classes to our community and visiting artists. Throughout the year, our dance classes provide a unique challenge and offer a creative way for students to develop strength and grace while exploring aerial movement.

Blue Lapis Light also offers aerial workshops for colleges, high schools and community organizations. These workshops are uniquely designed for every project, providing an exceptional dance experience for all participants. We can host master classes at our studio or visit your location to conduct site-specific work.

Austin Opera continues its long-standing commitment to American and English-language opera with Carlisle Floyd’s operatic rendition of John Steinbeck’s iconic novella, Of Mice and Men, foundational support provided by the Georgia B. Lucas Foundation.

Based on John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, this riveting American opera is a faithful retelling of one of America’s most celebrated works of literature. Carlisle Floyd vividly captures the lives of the characters, the feel of the era, the bunkhouse, the depressed economy, and Lennie’s tragic story.

Stage director Kristine McIntyre, known for her visually stunning and emotionally rich productions, has directed more than 50 operas throughout the United States at The Metropolitan Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Arizona Opera, Dallas Opera, and many others. McIntyre’s “canny ability to meld visual and musical elements” will seamlessly allow Floyd’s score and libretto full voice to clearly communicate the work’s central theme—that personal relationship, however tenuous, is far superior to solitary existence.

“Of Mice and Men” is an important work of theater, literature, film and, of course, opera. Its plea for compassion and hope is as timely now as when John Steinbeck wrote the novella on which the opera is based.

An Opera in three acts, sung in English with lyrics projected above the stage.

Saturday, January 23, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 28, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 31, 3:00 p.m.

Tickets: $35 – $200

http://austinopera.org/event/ofmiceandmen/
512.472.5927
tickets@AustinOpera.org

Austin Opera continues its long-standing commitment to American and English-language opera with Carlisle Floyd’s operatic rendition of John Steinbeck’s iconic novella, Of Mice and Men, foundational support provided by the Georgia B. Lucas Foundation.

Based on John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, this riveting American opera is a faithful retelling of one of America’s most celebrated works of literature. Carlisle Floyd vividly captures the lives of the characters, the feel of the era, the bunkhouse, the depressed economy, and Lennie’s tragic story.

Stage director Kristine McIntyre, known for her visually stunning and emotionally rich productions, has directed more than 50 operas throughout the United States at The Metropolitan Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Arizona Opera, Dallas Opera, and many others. McIntyre’s “canny ability to meld visual and musical elements” will seamlessly allow Floyd’s score and libretto full voice to clearly communicate the work’s central theme—that personal relationship, however tenuous, is far superior to solitary existence.

“Of Mice and Men” is an important work of theater, literature, film and, of course, opera. Its plea for compassion and hope is as timely now as when John Steinbeck wrote the novella on which the opera is based.

An Opera in three acts, sung in English with lyrics projected above the stage.

Saturday, January 23, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 28, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 31, 3:00 p.m.

Tickets: $35 – $200

http://austinopera.org/event/ofmiceandmen/
512.472.5927
tickets@AustinOpera.org

The 2016 MidWinter Lectures, February 1-3, feature Grammy-winning Conspirare conductor Craig Hella Johnson. He will speak on the creative process behind his upcoming work, “Considering Matthew Shepard” (premiering February 20). Craig will be joined by National Book Award-nominated Thomas Lynch and womanist theologian Cheryl Kirk-Duggan.

All of the lectures are free but registration is required.

http://www.austinseminary.edu/page.cfm?p=3299

The Long Center presents Bill W. and Doctor Bob, February 2-7 in the Rollins Studio Theatre.

In 1929, famous New York stockbroker Bill Wilson crashes with the stock market and becomes a hopeless drunk. Dr. Bob Smith, a surgeon from Ohio, has also been an alcoholic for thirty years, often going into the operating room with a hangover. Through an astonishing series of events, Bill W. and Dr. Bob meet and form a relationship, each helping to keep the other sober. This is the amazing and often humorous story of the two men who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the story of their wives, who founded Al Anon.

http://thelongcenter.org/event/bill-w-and-doctor-bob/

The vision of this production is to celebrate the power of recovery, educate people about the disease of alcoholism through breaking down barriers and stigmas, and support outreach to all who still suffer and their friends and loved ones.

As many reviews have said: ‘This play is not just for AA, it’s a play for everyone.

• *Please note that Thursday, February 4th’s performance will be performed in Spanish.

The Long Center presents Bill W. and Doctor Bob, February 2-7 in the Rollins Studio Theatre.

In 1929, famous New York stockbroker Bill Wilson crashes with the stock market and becomes a hopeless drunk. Dr. Bob Smith, a surgeon from Ohio, has also been an alcoholic for thirty years, often going into the operating room with a hangover. Through an astonishing series of events, Bill W. and Dr. Bob meet and form a relationship, each helping to keep the other sober. This is the amazing and often humorous story of the two men who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the story of their wives, who founded Al Anon.

The vision of this production is to celebrate the power of recovery, educate people about the disease of alcoholism through breaking down barriers and stigmas, and support outreach to all who still suffer and their friends and loved ones.

As many reviews have said: ‘This play is not just for AA, it’s a play for everyone.

• *Please note that Thursday, February 4th’s performance will be performed in Spanish.

The Long Center presents Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Dell Hall.
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary season, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was founded in 1974 by a group of ballet enthusiasts for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and en travesti, Les Ballets Trockadero first performed in the late-late shows in Off-Off Broadway lofts. The TROCKS, as they are affectionately known, quickly garnered a major critical essay by Arlene Croce in The New Yorker, and combined with reviews in The New York Times and The Village Voice, established the Company as an artistic and popular success.
By mid 1975, the TROCKS’ inspired blend of their loving knowledge of dance, their comic approach, and the astounding fact that men can, indeed, dance en pointe without falling flat on their faces, was being noted beyond New York. Articles and notices in publications such as Variety, Oui, The London Daily Telegraph, as well as a Richard Avedon photo essay in Vogue, made the Company nationally and internationally known.
“The Trocks are looking better than ever. … It was ballet that would probably delight all who miss ballet as it once was. There was nary a modern dance step or gesture in sight, in dancing filled with the kind of infectious passion and triumph the Bolshoi Ballet once brought to the Stage… Their program of grand ballet is as much food for the mind as it is for the eye and the funny bone.” ~The New York Times