Ballet Minnesota's-- 2nd Annual Fall Concert

Friday, I was checking out City Pages.com and came across this "free" event which took place Saturday, at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul. We arrived early and collected our tickets and noticed that we had balcony seats. Tracy on crutches, had no problem climbing the 2 flights of steps to our seats, but the volunteers did. It worked out to our advantage because they assigned us wonderful seats on the main floor in the back.

There were two acts. The first being very traditional ballet with the dancers performing along to stringed instrument's. The second act was a more contemporary approach to ballet. The dances were choreographed to music from a variety of remixed R&B, acoustic, B-boxing, and rap music.

The concert was entertaining, the music was great, the price was right, however the dancers were very amateur. Or I should say, not experienced, they were high school age individuals who were very talented, but lacked the confidence of older more experienced dancers. The reason being, by observing the dancers it appeared that many of them were thinking about the next move rather then being in the moment and creating fluid movements.

Highlights for me was the price, seeing the musical acts during the performance, being mildly entertained, and spending time with Tracy :)