What, you ask, is an Animal Ballet?
Well, through
her years performing for children under the auspices of
Young Audiences of Houston
and through her delight in nature, Susan has been inspired to create a series of mixed-media projects incorporating video
with live performance. The subjects are live animals who seem to dance to her music. In reality, Susan has respectfully
composed her music to flow naturally with the movements of the animals. While a bit of creative editing is involved, the animals
have given their approval by acting beautifully, humorously and even sometimes outrageously.
Her most recent project, The Aquarium: a Marine Micro-Ballet for Guitar and Sea Creatures features
the strange and funny occupants
of a saltwater reef aquarium, with characters such as
the cranky little Pom Pom Crab, the fabulously creative Decorator Crab and the bright red and very active Serpent Star.
