Dreams Realized

Ballet Austin's Butler Dance Education Center is now open and Thursday marked the opening of their 51st Season. The dream of a performing arts center for Austin is still a few months away so this production, Midsummer Night's Dream, is being performed in the Paramount Theater and I stepped out as far into the street last night as I safely could given the traffic and the two Manhattans I had at the Austin Club to shoot the marquee of this historic theater for you. The performance was beautifully adapted to the facility. (You can still get tickets to see it.)

Puck had everyone dreaming of love in this show (and getting married in the end) and dreams will be realized for the rest of the season with Clara dreaming of all those adventures with the Nutcracker and a dance competition for up and coming choreographers and Don Quixote tilting at windmills at the Long Center. It's easy to see why Dreams Realized is the theme of this year's Ballet Austin season.