Dance

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Mary Beth and I walked over to Playhouse on the Square to see a Collage ballet/dance program. It was very good, four very good pieces: I Am My Work (Hope Boykin); The Rate in Which I Am (Joshua Manculich); Four Solitudes (Crystal Pite); and Only Light, Only Love (Nocolo Fonte). Four Solitudes was probably my favorite, just given the straight up power of the dancing itself. For this one they actually wheeled a piano out and the music was performed live (a Schubert piece played by Adrienne Park, who we know from seeing at MSO and other stuff sometimes!). The Rate in Which I Am was also really powerful with the way it used spotlights around the stage, coming on, coming off. Anyway, really good program. This little girl was sitting next to us who was just super super into it. She was sitting on the other side of her mom, who was next to me, but after intermission when we came back for the last piece, she sat on her mom's lap. Throughout it she kept moving her arms along with the dancing and sometimes pointed at the dancers and sometimes whispered excitedly to her mom. Talked to them a little bit afterwards and, yes unsurprisingly, she's already started to dance. She's also four years old! So so so cute and it was warming my heart seeing someone so young get so into it while it was going on. Anyway, good time!