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Emma sent me an e-mail a while ago with an image of a poster labeled, The Gift. Upon closer inspection, I found that the poster was designed to give publicity to a performance, presented (for free!) by Ballet Emmanuel, a Christan company which was founded in 2006. I had thoughts about attending one of the three shows, but naturally, I was in the middle of a homework assignment which caused me to forget everything about the message.
A few days ago I received a call from my dear dance-sister, reminding me of that e-mail sent so long ago. I remembered it instantly! Emma asked me if I would want to attend the Sunday performance with her and her mom (if her mom felt any better by that time– their family has been ill). I decided to talk to my mother about the idea. Naturally, I was in the middle of a homework assignment (darn it all!). Once again, the whole idea slipped my mind.
Finally, yesterday, Emma called me once more. She asked if I had decided to go to the performance and if she could catch a ride with me. This time, I asked my mom right away. At first, she said that it wasn’t going to work out– she had too much shopping to do! Later on, it was decided that, somehow, we’d make it happen. And… we did!
We picked Emma up this afternoon and headed over to the location of the performance. We found some pretty good seats once there.
The performance itself was awesome– so beautiful! I highly recommend Ballet Emmanuel’s The Gift. There was an excellent group of musicians, a harpist, actors and of course, dancers! Every costume was hand-made, which added a special touch to everything. It was truly inspiring and explained the extraordinary Christmas Story in a lovely way.
Just before the final dance, a man explained that Ballet Emmanuel is all over Facebook, Twitter and even Instagram (the only form of “posting” that I possess)! We dropped Emma off at her house and I rushed home to find this professional ballet company on my iPod app. I found Ballet Emmanuel’s page and “followed” it. To my great surprise, their first picture was taken at my home studio!