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
NICOLE WHITESIDE is a dancer. Her love of dance has her scaling tall buildings and rolling across wide floors. She has been dancing since she was two, starting at Marsha Woody's dance school in Beaumont, TX. Upon making it to the big city, she began extensive training at the Houston Ballet Academy, then at the High School for Performing and Visual Arts. She moved to Austin to attend UT with plans of changing her major to something more practical, but became a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. She has performed with a number of companies including Ashley Parker Overton's Undertow Dance Theater, Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks, Austin School of Classical Ballet, and with David Justin of the American Repertory Ensemble. This is her fifth year as a performer, choreographer, and
collaborator with Blue Lapis Light. In 2006 she was awarded Best Dancer for her performance in Requiem, at the Intel shell. Her current projects include Sheep Army/Elsewhere Dance Theater and Little Stolen Moments, who were awarded Best Dance Trio with 3 Miniature Trampolines.
- Read a recent Austin American-Statesman article about Nicole and aerial dance classes
- 'They Might Be Angels' from the Austin Chronicle