A! Magazine for the Arts Archive

The Art of Dance

Area ballet companies teach students about dance as an art form, including technique, artistry, production, and awareness of other art forms.

In This Issue

• Dance: Ballet Arts Academy & Theatre of Ballet Arts

  � "Ballet is my comfort zone, my strong suit, and it allows me to forget everything outside of the studio." — Camille Clark.

• Dance: Bristol Ballet

  "It [ballet] teaches you more about yourself, and makes you a better person." — Jessa Williams.

• Dance: Kingsport Ballet

  "I cherish the relationships I have with my fellow dancers." — Madeleine Steiner

• Dance: Highlands Center for Ballet Arts "I feel more at home there than anywhere else, so I often choose dance over other things ..." — Annika Sikora
• Kingsport's "Ballet Girls" With hands eagerly stretched toward the rafters, a room full of girls yell, "I do, I do! Me, me!" Ranging in age from six to young teens, they eagerly use their entire bodies to express their interest to be "the ballet girls."
• Youth Spotlight: Fiddler Steps Into History Virginia old-time fiddler Ryan Halsey enjoys adventures that begin with a step back in time.

A! Extra

• Arts Commission Awards Grants Ellen M. Hays, chair of the Tennessee Arts Commission, has announced grants awarded to local organizations for Fiscal Year 2012 (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012).
• Best-selling Author: Honesty Behind Her Success Misty Dishner was initially worried when her teenage daughter brought home a book titled "Crank" about drug addiction, pregnancy, prison and a path of self-destruction. Curious and concerned, Dishner began reading the first fictional work of author Ellen
• Winners of Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights Barter Theatre has announced the winners of its eleventh annual Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights (AFPP) that was held July 26 – August 6, 2011.
• Museum Plan Gets $600K Support The Bristol City Council has voiced support for a plan that would provide up to $600,000 in financial support to the proposed Birthplace of Country Music Cultural Heritage Center museum.
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• Practice Makes Picture Perfect ABINGDON, Va. – When Mhari Reid's family moved to Abingdon from New York last year, the sudden long distance from friends and family inspired the 11-year-old to take up a new hobby.
• Rock Solid New exhibit at William King Museum shares lip-curling, slicked-hair history of "rockabilly" music in Virginia.
• Finishing the Race First in a two-part series on the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance's effort to build a cultural heritage center in downtown Bristol. Coming Monday: Bristol already has a museum dedicated to its musical heritage at the Bristol Mall.
• Fulfilling a Musical Promise Second in a two-part series on the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance's effort to build a cultural heritage center in downtown Bristol.
• Art Goes Outdoors BRISTOL, Va. – As Bristol, Va., city workers finish putting his sculpture into place outside the Bristol Public Library, Marvin Tadlock stands by in attentive supervision.
• Barter Players announce Coloring Contest Winners
• Feats of Clay Melinda Payne's art comes from, and reflects, the earth. "My work here is meant to be representative of the mountains," she said, gesturing at some of her handmade mugs and pitchers during her pottery throwing demonstration at Holston Mountain Artisans in
• Highlands Festival Another Successful Production Vendors and organizers of the Virginia Highlands Festival said that it's been another successful year, as the annual event came to a close.
• 'Song of the Mountains' joins Crooked Road
• Theatre Bristol announces plans... With juggling displays, costumed characters and live bluegrass music, Theatre Bristol officials announced their plan to remain a major presence in downtown Bristol for years to come.
• KingsportARTS promotes Tina Radtke KingsportARTS has promoted Tina Radtke to full-time Arts Education Director.
• Arts Commission Seeks Presenting Organizations he Tennessee Arts Commission is accepting applications from qualified presenting organizations for inclusion in the online Tennessee Performing Arts Presenter (TPAP) roster.
• In Focus: Theatre Bristol Summer Camp Children perform "Theatre Rock America!" at the Paramount Center in Bristol.
• Highlands Festival Art Show Awards The winners of the 2011 Virginia Highlands Festival Juried Art Show were recently announced.
• Crooked Road, Heartwood connect region ABINGDON, Va. — Todd Christensen looked at his cell phone. "Oh, that's Joe Wilson right there," he said. "I talk to Joe Wilson all the time."
• Research on Value Added By Cultural Industries Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).