Review: Kaleidoscope by Ventana Ballet and Austin Camerata

by David Glen Robinson
Published on May 16, 2023

KALEIDOSCOPE: Five not so easy pieces. HAIKU: In a studio / music becomes the dancers / the night tastes it all

Dance in Austin is said to exist in a state of underfunded flux. Some say it is dying out, an artifact of twentieth century fine arts having no claim on the twenty-first. Ventana Ballet says no to all that, producing dance in ballet and contemporary technique and blends of the two. Ballet purists take note; widen your horizons a smidge by giving some creative attention to Ventana Ballet. Ventana’s show Kaleidoscope gives us a powerful, …

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