AUSTIN BALLET: 25 Years of Stephen Mills
Ballet Austin is celebrating the 25th year of Artistic Director Stephen Mills — for his vision and artistic contributions to Austin’s creative identity. To begin, they staged a trio of…
GRIMM TALES Ballet: Redux
Back in 2019, I saw (and reviewed) the premiere of Grimm Tales, a new ballet by Artistic Director Stephen Mills. A link to my original review is below. This revival…
Belle: A Ballet for the Ages
Beauty & The Beast has reached iconic status in our culture, thanks to the Disneyfication of the tale which was actually first was told in France in 1740. But what…
The Taste of Bubblegum: Ballet Austin
Strike A Pose! Even though Madonna was not on stage at the Long Center this weekend, her spirit was there in the new ballet Bubblegum, created by Stephen Mills. Mills…
Ballet and the Holocaust
How to express ineffable suffering through dance? That is the question Austin Ballet director Stephen Mills asked himself; the answer would propel him a years-long journey of discovery full of…