FEATURED VIDEO: Impermanence (2009)
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Blue Lapis Light has an exciting schedule of events this Spring, including performances at:
- Night of the Bat at The Hyatt Regency
Blue Lapis Light company members will perform at the Hyatt hotel in downtown Austin as part of Night of the Bat on
June 6
AERIAL DANCE CAMP
July 12-16
10am-12pm
Students (ages 9-14) at Blue Lapis Light's Aerial Dance Camp will spend a week having fun learning aerial dance on silks. Read More & Register Here.
Blue Lapis Light's Impermanence was included in two Top 9 lists in the Austin Chronicle:
#1 on the Top 9 Lasting Impressions in Dance From 2009 - "Four stories up, seemingly lit by phosphorescence against the infinity of night, harnessed dancers floated through perpendicular somersaults like rotating stars. Spectacle, yes, but the pinnacle of spectacle: the creation of an engrossing otherworld."
#6 on the Top 9 Dance and Classical Music Treasures of 2009 - "In sending more aerial dancers skyward than ever before and having more of them partner together, choreographer Sally Jacques created new wonders in the heavens, airborne duets that intertwined mortality and infinity."
Sally Jacques is featured in the recently released book Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces
ARTICLES
- Read a recent Austin American-Statesman article about Nicole and aerial dance classes
- 'They Might Be Angels' from the Austin Chronicle
Read the article that appeared in a June issue of the Austin American Statesman's XLENT.
Read an article about Requiem (2006) that appeared in the October issue of Austin Woman magazine.
REVIEWS
Review of 2009's Impermanence from the Austin Chronicle
Review of 2008's Illumination from the Austin Chronicle
Stories and reviews of 2007's Constellation.
- The Austin Chronicle preview
- The Austin American-Statesman review
- The Austin American-Statesman preview
Here is the Austin Chronicle review of Requiem. (2006)
QUOTES
'Nicole Whiteside and Laura Cannon are not, in fact, winged messengers from on high, but for the past few years, they've gotten so good at aerial dance work that they can pass for angels' AUSTIN CHRONICLE
'These women have become pioneers in a kind of aerial work that few others in Austin have ever attempted and only a handful of people in the country are doing. It's performance that is as physically demanding as it is daring, and yet they have managed not only to take it beyond stunt status to the level of true dance, they've made it look easy.' AUSTIN CHRONICLE
'Sally Jacques has perfected her own brand of artistic unity... she has united location with... a rarefied form of modern dance. She has done so with impeccable taste and sentiment' AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN
AWARDS
Blue Lapis Light's 2007 Austin Critics awards included:
- Best Dance Work: Blue Lapis LIght
- Best Dancers: Theresa Hardy, Nicole Whiteside
- Best Lighting: Jason Amato
- Best Sound: William Meadows
Artistic Director and Founder Sally Jacques was also voted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame.