Youth arts fans: This weekend, the Latin Ballet of Virginia presents their interpretation of my first novel Milagros: Girl from Away. It runs Friday through Sunday at the Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center, and tickets are free for kids under six. (You can get more info on their website or on Facebook.)
The student company performed this colorful ballet several years ago. (By now some of these kids are college graduates. Yikes!) Then as now, it’s such an honor to see a work that I wrote for children being performed by children in another art form. And I’m so grateful to the LBV for always supporting me and other Latino artists in the community. They were kind enough to perform at my Hope Tree project at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in 2012, which lent a beautiful touch to the launch party for The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind.
You can catch LBV this summer at the Dogwood Dell Festival of the Arts, too. Here’s the schedule.
A walk down memory lane from the original is below, but I can’t wait to meet the new dancers during their rehearsal today!
How proud and honored you must feel, Meg, to see your books transformed into ballets. I hope to see them someday…please let me know if they are ever performed in California. Wow! Congratulations !
Love,
Amada Irma Perez
Gracias, Amada! It is very touching to see young dancers working on the ballet. I’m going to their rehearsal today, and I’m so excited!