Blue Lapis Light’s Youth Taking Flight program presents Now & Then: A Spiritual Journey.  Ballet Afrique’s Youth Dance Ensemble will also be performing for this evening length show Saturday December 3, 2016 at 8:00pm. Doors will open at 7:30pm. 

Tickets will be available at the door for $12 Cash and Credit Cards will be accepted.

Youth Taking Flight is a collaborative dance program for teens from local social service organizations.  Blue Lapis Light and students from the Austin Children’s Shelter meet twice a week during a semester to an create original dance performance with music, movement, and aerial dance.  Ballet Afrique’s Youth Dance Ensemble is a junior contemporary dance company that employs a synthesis of ballet, modern, and African traditional movement to articulate the human condition and spirit through the unbounded art form of dance. Ballet Afrique was created in 2008 to offer East Austin youth an opportunity to experience the richness of their own culture alongside other cultures represented in Austin.