Robert Faires' Top 10 Works That Spoke to Me About 2020

Throughout 2020, performances and books seemed to contain messages about the year – its trials, its traumas, and its echoes in history

"...one another. It conveyed the pain of quarantine, but Sally Jacques also choreographed gestures of prayerfulness and serenity, suggesting..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

We Have an Issue: Redefining Distancing

How Austin's recovery community is adapting to COVID-19

"...Miró Quartet's ambitious Faces of America two-concert program and Sally Jacques' The Well Inside, a site-specific dance swinging 20..."

May 15, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

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

Robert Faires' Top 10 Joys in Dance and Classical in 2019

It was a year in which the bold and the beautiful made strong impressions in dance and music

"...making contact suspended in air at unreal heights. Again, Sally Jacques' aerial dancers awed with their artistry and rare..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Blue Lapis Light's In Light

In this aerial dance production, the performers move through the sky with such grace, joy, and harmony, they might as well be angels

"...that power isn't simply about the physicality. Artistic Director Sally Jacques grounds every work in a concern for the..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

In Memoriam: Gina Lalli

Pioneer of Indian classical dance in Austin dies at age 89

"...to the stage, working with such dance artists as Sally Jacques, José Luis Bustamante (on the duet “Garden of..."

Feb. 19, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Arts Funding Matrix: Reloaded

Arts Commission's FY 19 funding adjustments head to Council

"...a great believer in the culture of diversity," said Sally Jacques, artistic director of Blue Lapis Light, which didn't..."

Oct. 2, 2018 Arts Post 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

Robert Faires' Top 10 Dance and Classical Treasures of 2017

Much outstanding new dance and music this year took its cue from the world around us and pressing social issues

"...District Plaza inspired something fresh, urgent, and personal in Sally Jacques, and her dancers passionately twirled around its towering..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Seen / Soon, Sept. 29

Soaring above Seaholm with Blue Lapis Light and discovering Pinocchio in hip-hop with Abraham.In.Motion

"...has inspired something fresh, urgent, and personal in choreographer Sally Jacques. Through Oct. 1, Thu.-Sun., 8:15pm, Seaholm Plaza, 211..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Arts Column

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend: Sept. 22-24

Not too many, right? Just enough. Just enough for the city.

"...of Seaholm Plaza over the next two weekends. Yes, Sally Jacques, your amazing dancers have made the sky worth..."

Sept. 21, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

BBC Names Top 100 Comedies of All Time

Film critics poll picks Some Like It Hot for top slot

"...Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, 1980) 8) Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) 9) This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner,..."

Aug. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Critics Table Tops at 25

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Kathy Dunn Hamrick, More or Less/The Four (Three) Seasons/“Salud” Sally Jacques, Radiance Jennifer Hart, Camille: A Story of Art..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Jonelle Seitz's Top 10 Brave Dance Artists of 2016

The year revealed how much courage and inspiration can be found in Austin's masters of movement

"...8) SALLY JACQUES For hope in social justice, look up to..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Robert Faires' Top 10 Classical Music / Dance Treasures of 2016

The richest work in dance and classical music this year ran the gamut from a dance in a backyard pool to an opera about Cold War brainwashing

"...Light) With wires strung across the Long Center columns, Sally Jacques turned the Terrace into a giant stringed instrument,..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Acting in a Supporting Role Crystal Bird Caviel, Disgraced Jacques Colimon, Terminus Tom Green, The Night Alive Jadon Hatley,..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Fighting to Stay

As Austin's housing market booms, its poorest residents fight to exist

"...In August 2015, Rebecca Gray and Jacques Casimir signed a new lease with F&F, with plans..."

April 15, 2016 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

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

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

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

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Jacques Coliman, Bright Now Beyond..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

Top 10 Kicky Linkups in 2014

This year, dance was all about the partnering – some of it unusual, all of it captivating

"...8) NICOLE WHITESIDE/SALLY JACQUES (In Light, Blue Lapis Light)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

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

All Over Creation: Upscale

Does size matter when it comes to art?

"...for large-scale art. We've seen examples on occasion – Sally Jacques' grand aerial ballets danced over entire buildings; Jaclyn..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Great Artdoors

Summer's here, and the time is right for outdoor performances all over Central Texas

"...9pm. Long Center Terrace, 701 W. Riverside. www.bluelapislight.org Choreographer Sally Jacques and the daredevil aerial dancers of Blue Lapis..."

May 17, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Abracadabra

Steve Miller brings the magic at Texas Medal of Arts

"...of Dell Hall was breathtaking, and proved that choreographer Sally Jacques and her aerial dancers can create extraordinary movement..."

March 6, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Top 10 (+1) Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2012

In 2012, dance memorably explored profound topics, and classical embraced Charlie Brown and George Washington

"...(Blue Lapis Light) Returning to the Long Center's ring, Sally Jacques' company provided even more spectacular visions of the..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature 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

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

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