Ballet Austin: Joy

Ballet Austin returns to the Long Center stage and the start of an exciting new season of live performances, beginning with this exuberant trio of "Three Happy Dances" – a trio of world premieres by Stephen Mills: The Pink Confetti Dance, Counterpoint, and Preludes/Beginnings. Has life got you down lately? And how couldn't it, really, given what we've been dealing with for the past 18 months? Here's a show to lift your spirits, a splendor of kinetic renewal, with the dancers abetted by live accompaniment from ACMC's Michelle Schumann and the Austin Guitar Quartet (with guest Jeremy Waldrip).