Houston Ballet

If you go to krbe.com, you'll see all the things that we have going on.

But primarily, it's all about the Houston Ballet Nutcracker Market today because we've got three chances for you to win tickets to get in for the most amazing shopping extravaganza of the year.

and score a $1,000 shopping spree to do it.

It's so fun.

It's so fun.

The Houston Ballet Nutcracker Market.

I still remember being in high school and hearing a girl in my class, guys, talking to another girl saying, my mom is going to come pick me up so we can go to the Nutcracker Market.

And I remember visualizing all these nutcrackers, thinking, God, they really like nutcrackers.

He's a professional musician now.

He plays for the Houston Ballet, the Houston Symphony, Symphony of the Pacific in LA.

That's where his wife plays.

So yeah, again, continuous, very artful family that I'm in.

And I'll quote her.

That's from Julie Kent, the great American ballerina who runs the Houston Ballet.

And she once said to me that ballet is about the divine reach.

It's that sense of aspiration for the very highest capabilities and possibilities of what a human being can do and be.

They have 15 dancers in HB2.

12 of them came from within Houston Ballet Academy.

So you want to get into HB2, go to Pro 1 and Pro 2 at Houston.

Other schools, there's much less of a correlation between the students who are in the school getting moved into the training program or the second company.

Thank you.

Li Cunxin was a principal dancer with Houston Ballet and the Australian Ballet, a stockbroker, film producer, and artistic director of Queensland Ballet.

In retirement, he received the prestigious Prix de Lausanne Lifetime Achievement Award.

Today, Li is a prolific author and speaker.

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Stevenson was the director?

Artistic director of the Houston Ballet.

Artistic director of Houston Ballet.

And in Houston, where she was living, recognized, uh, that people living with AIDS, uh, were not receiving the services that they needed.

And so much like dancers responding to AIDS or Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the organization here that we're all familiar of if we live in New York, she developed something called the Remember Project in Houston, working with Houston Ballet and, and other dancers there, as she had become quite a big fish in the dance world in Houston, and had invited me down to dance, uh, a piece of repertory I had danced in the past that was technically pretty demanding, particularly for my old, not so, uh, in tune thirty-seven-year-old body.

So I got back into class, and I, um, I really tried to work to get my body back up to performance quality.

And I even, uh, did a, a quick, uh, fundraiser for this trip to raise money for their organization as well as offset some of my travel expenses at the very Village Zendo on the eleventh floor, um, when we were on, uh, Broadway on the eleventh floor, and so did an evening of performance there.