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
SAM PALMER is a certified yoga instructor who specializes in Ashtanga yoga and has studied and practiced yoga intensely since 1993. He has also been a serious student of ballet since 2005. Sam is a former musician and songwriter and was the lead vocalist/bass player for a band who performed professionally until he left the band in 2001. Now Sam is a performer of dance and contortion and has performed on stages that have varied greatly in both size and prestige. Sam has performed as a dancer with Austin Metropolitan Ballet and Austin Classical Ballet, and as an actor in the Royal Ballet of London's 2007 production of Sleeping Beauty in San Antonio. Sam first performed with Blue Lapis Light in its 2008 production of Constellation, and then again in Impermanence in 2009. Sam is currently pursuing a degree in dance at TWU in Denton, Texas.