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VENTANA BALLET & AUSTIN CAMERATA PRESENT:

KALEIDOSCOPE

May 11 - 13 | Draylen Mason Music Studio at KMFA

Ventana Ballet and Austin Camerata announce the first presentation of a new annual collaborative show, KALEIDOSCOPE, coming to Austin May 11th-13th, 2023. These two dynamic local performing arts companies invite guests to join them at KMFA’s beautifully designed Draylen Mason Music Studio for an intimate experience, colored with the sounds and patterns of live music and dance. The show features a vibrant mélange of contemporary ballet, contemporary dance, and modern dance intricately paired with musical selections for a string quartet that performs live on stage alongside the dancers. 

Austin Camerata will feature Invoke, Austin’s bowed and fretted string quartet, described as “not classical, but not, not classical…” Ventana Ballet will perform to some of Invoke’s own original music as well as to works by groundbreaking living composers Shelley Washintgon, Julia Wolfe, Osvaldo Golijov, and Paul Wiancko. Composer Paul Wiancko describes his featured work “LIFT” as “the journey of a soul—laid out in fervent, celebratory detail,” which perfectly captures the spiritual thread weaving through the entire show. The musical program is a blending of genres fusing classical elements with jazz, rock, American folk, and minimalism. “It is important for us to highlight the less heard voices of living composers,” said Daniel Kopp, Austin Camerata’s Artistic Director.

Inspired by the genre-bending forms and complex patterns of these composers’ works, Ventana Ballet’s choreographers AJ Garcia-Rameau and Ty Graynor highlight the inherent beauty of the music using choreographic devices that incorporate the origins and symbolism of the word kaleidoscope. From the Ancient Greek words kalos, "beauty”, eidos, “form, shape,” and skopeō, “to examine,” kaleidoscope informs the choreography; the dancers’ movement vocabulary, hence, aims to embody an"observation of beautiful forms.” 

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Event Details

• Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023 - Saturday, May 13, 2023
• Time: Thursday: 7:30 P.M. | Friday and Saturday: 6:30 P.M. & 8:30 P.M.
• Venue: KMFA- Draylen Mason Music Studio
• Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kaleidoscope-tickets-615398602787

Ticket Information

• Cost: $35.00 -$53.00

Presenter Details

• Name: Ventana Ballet

Ventana Ballet is a professional dance company based in Austin, TX, specializing in contemporary ballet dance performance. The word ventana, meaning window, embodies the company’s organizational mission and vision, seeking to provide inspiration, accessibility, opportunity, and technical structure.

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