DANCE: Alvin Ailey Feb. 16-19, 2012

Alvin Ailey Dance Company

Link: http://www.alvinailey.org/atlanta

HOLIDAY EVENT: Holiday Gardens Lights (I'm in!) - until Jan. 7, 2012

Holiday Garden Lights

at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens

Experience a dazzling extravaganza featuring nearly 1 million lights crafted into displays inspired by nature. Highlights include a galaxy of stars in the woodlands; whimsical bees, butterflies, and other lighted pollinators in the Edible Garden; and 200 show-stopping, color-changing topiary forms choreographed to holiday music on the Great Lawn.

This intown experience features elegant, traditional elements such as wrapped trees and cones up to 30-feet-tall. Staying true to the Garden’s history of blockbuster art exhibitions, the show design emphasizes stunning, innovative, and artistic light installations as well as fun, whimsical elements.

In addition, the Garden is decked in holiday favorites such as an 18-foot poinsettia tree, holiday displays of unusual plant material (tillandsias, bromeliads, alternathera), and, of course, hundreds of poinsettias!

“It’s going to be a joyful, exhilarating outdoor experience – and so much more fun than being smooshed up against your relatives peering out car windows,” said Mary Pat Matheson, the Garden’s executive director.


For more info: http://www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/

VIDEO: Life is a Dance

When I saw this, I knew I had to share it. True dance is the merging of mind, body, spirit, and this video is a beautiful visual of such expression. Enjoy! (Now, where are my dancing shoes?)

Ian Eastwood - So Beautiful (Musiq Soulchild)