This is exciting!

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Thu, 11-15-2007 - 2:31pm

Some of you will remember that I quit my job as a costumer for a local dance company. Anyway, I got a call last night from one of the dancers that often danced with this company as a guest artist. He's doing a concert in a few weeks. I was all ready to tell him NO! but then he told me about the pieces he's doing and all the foot work he's done. I couldn't say no, so I'm costuming his show.

His pieces are on autism. He read some articles this summer that touched his heart about middle aged autistics in our area that have no place to go and their care givers are getting older and unable to care for them. He kept the article and then started reading a book about an autistic man. Anyway, he felt compelled to do SOMETHING. Since what he does is dance, he's choreographing several pieces and he also has an autism consultant from the school district he teaches in that is going to speak before/during his show. He has motion picture clips and poetry and music for the concert as well. He's hoping to have someone from the local arts institute help fund this so he can take it further and make it bigger and better-- currently he has almost no budget. He's having students from the university dance, using the university costume shop, I'm donating my time.

Anyway, I'm swamped now, adding this so I probably won't be around much, but I'll send on reviews or whatever comes of the whole thing.

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Thu, 11-15-2007 - 2:54pm

That is wonderful.

                                

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Thu, 11-15-2007 - 4:48pm
That is AWESOME Betsy! Send us a website or some info if you can. I love it.
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Thu, 11-15-2007 - 7:12pm
Betsy that is the coolest thing I've heard in a long time!

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Thu, 11-15-2007 - 10:57pm

Betsy, as Renee says give us a website when/if it comes around. Or better yet, give this gent my public email and we'll help him make that happen:

candes@apovonautism.org

Maybe an article or two written up and sent out on the open press circuit would help too? We can do that.

~Candes

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Sat, 11-17-2007 - 12:42pm

Dear Betsy,

Hooray! Tell us more as it happens,

Sara