Sally Jacques' Book of The 64 Beds Project Under the Covers

"...this very issue, the issue of homelessness, that prompted Sally Jacques in December of 1988 to create a performance..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Arts Feature by Stephanie Beauchamp

This Is Who We Are #2: Sally Jacques' The Well Inside

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...Solitude proves to be significant in The Well Inside, Sally Jacques' extraordinary new site-specific dance, resurfacing in it again..."

May 5, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Lost in Space

Performance Artist Sally Jacques Lives Life on the Edges

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June 5, 1998 Arts Feature

Concrete Vigil

In transforming buildings into altars, Sally Jacques offers a place to keep watch

"...When Sally Jacques was a teenage free spirit hitching around the..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Risk for Beauty

Sally Jacques sends dancers flying off a pair of federal buildings to give us a moment of transcendence

"...Sally Jacques steps off the elevator on the ninth floor..."

June 15, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Blue Lapis Light's Edge of Grace

Blue Lapis Light leaves its epic aerial work for an intimate and uniquely compelling dance on scaffolding

"...But this is Artistic Director Sally Jacques returning to her roots, revisiting a kind of..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'Site Dance'

A new book cites Blue Lapis Light's founder as a dancemaker of national importance

"...chapter to Requiem, with Blue Lapis Light Artistic Director Sally Jacques describing its creation and performance in a way..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

They Might Be Angels

For Blue Lapis Light, dance artists Laura Cannon and Nicole Whiteside become heavenly creatures

"...Blue Lapis Light, the company founded by site-specific choreographer Sally Jacques, Whiteside and Cannon have raced sideways across the..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Making It Happen

The 2007 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...merely present but engaged. And Austin is richer for it.Sally Jacques..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing Through Uncharted Territory

Choreographic explorers Sharir & Bustamante and their 20-year expedition of discovery

"...with many pioneering modern dance artists – Deborah Hay, Sally Jacques, Heloise Gold, Diana Prechter, Andrea Ariel, Darla Johnson..."

May 13, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Requiem

When site-specific dance maker Sally Jacques was told that she could use the concrete shell of the Intel building for her latest production, she leapt at the opportunity

"...But not for Sally Jacques. When the queen of site-specific dance in Austin..."

June 9, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Where Nothing Falls II

Where Nothing Falls II is a breathtaking, heart-rending parade of bodies in motion through the vast expanses of a warehouse

"...time we see this in Where Nothing Falls II, Sally Jacques' rich extension of her site-specific dance from 2003,..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'Awakening'

Blue Lapis Light takes youth away from risk and on a journey

"...Sally Jacques calls them "youth in transition," referring to the..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis Loring

Whispers of Heaven

With Whispers of Heaven, choreographer Sally Jacques invites us to steep in visions of loveliness in a hard place, to ease into beauty as we would a hot bath

"...from the latter camp. The latest site-specific dance by Sally Jacques may be familiar in that its setting is..."

June 24, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Blue Pearl: A Heart-rending, Joyous Affirmation of Life

In the profoundly beautiful world of Blue Pearl, the third installment of her scaffold trilogy, choreographer Sally Jacques gave us an extended collaborative offering of movement, sound, and light and more, a heart-rending and joyous affirmation of life.

"...For an hour and a half, Sally Jacques and her dancers showed us why: Because there..."

June 30, 2000 Arts Review by Dawn Davis

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2003-2004

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...where nothing falls, Sally Jacques Productions..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Onstage Works of Wonder in 2002

Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable productions in the performing arts for 2002.

"...3. The Well Inside (Sally Jacques Productions): Sally Jacques ended her trilogy of dances..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Moving Toward the Edge of Grace

The new and the familiar at Blue Lapis Light's new home

"...story began in the early Eighties in Spain, when Sally Jacques attended Christmas Eve mass at the Església de..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Blue Lapis Light's Beyond the Clouds

This aerial dance company's production brought its dancers down to earth but still lifted us up

"...first, the scale seemed strangely off for one of Sally Jacques' Blue Lapis Light productions. No 20-story buildings with..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...dance troupe, founded in 2005, grew out of choreographer Sally Jacques' earlier efforts to defy gravity in a series..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Devotion

The dance sparkles with captivating images of water and weightlessness

"...was as if the environment conspired with Artistic Director Sally Jacques to create an enchanted space for the audience...."

June 24, 2011 Arts Review by Dawn Davis Loring

Illumination

Blue Lapis Light transforms Seaholm into a grand cathedral where the spirit is free to soar

"...an industrial husk, a monstrous void entombed in concrete. Sally Jacques entered one and saw a cathedral, and the..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Blue Lapis Light

Before the ugly concrete shell of the Intel building goes away for good, it will be the site for something beautiful: Sally Jacques' next large-scale dance, 'Requiem'

"...be the site for something beautiful. For site-specific choreographer Sally Jacques has been granted permission to set her next..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Blue Lapis Light's Belonging, Part One

The work's dancers, whether on the ground or sailing through the air, were beacons of human hope and empathy

"...In the reprise of Sally Jacques' 2017 work Belonging, Part One, each Blue Lapis..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Heaven-Earth-One

A breathtaking aerial dance that successfully connects the earthly with the heavenly

"...poet instead of a critic, it's the work of Sally Jacques. Richly imagistic, beautifully frightening, and deeply compelling, her..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Arts Review by Dawn Davis Loring

One

Striking aerial dance at a site lacking the drama of other Blue Lapis Light shows

"...Artistic Director Sally Jacques' aerial dancers are some of the best local..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Adam Conaway

Remembering the behind-the-scenes worker for Blue Lapis Light and CO2

"...the late Tina Marsh and Blue Lapis Light founder Sally Jacques, with whom he worked for 12 years. "His..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cultural Benefits

Blue Lapis Light and the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival and Miniature Golf Tournament host fundraisers for their respective creative enterprises

"...• Before Blue Lapis Light artistic director Sally Jacques can transform the former Intel Building into a..."

May 12, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Last call for changes to the city arts funding guidelines, another cool two million for the Long Center, Sally Jacques gets touched by an angel, more Austin artists do New York, and another honor for Conspirare

"...• Sally Jacques' Whispers of Heaven was touched by an angel..."

July 8, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Arts Bullets

Physical Plant Theater's first Garden Party raised more than $8,000, Ann Hume Wilson has been appointed associate director of the Blanton Museum of Art, Blue Lapis Light is exhibiting – and auctioning off – bras and breastplates for angels, and the city unveils a new mural at the Pan Am / A.B. Cantu Recreation Center

"...and Reji Thomas, to name a few) to benefit Sally Jacques' where nothing falls II, the sequel to the..."

June 4, 2004 Arts Feature

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