You know what it feels like to see that special someone, to drive a new car, score the winning goal or land the dream job—the things that really light your fuse? That make you explode with joy like fireworks over the Mississippi? Things that bring you such instant joy that you do your little happy dance when no one is looking? Well, we’re looking now, and we want you to rekindle that joy and share it with the world.
Show us your happy dance, and you could win our Grand Prize—seeing your joyous inspiration become a professional Ballet Memphis dance work. The winning happy dance will premiere opening night at Playhouse on the Square, the new midtown home of Ballet Memphis. Don’t have a happy dance? Then show us what you think joy looks like in dance. You don’t have to be a pro—this dance is for everybody.
All you have to do is film your happy dance in three minutes or less, and submit it to Ballet Memphis through our YouTube group. Our panel will view your little piece of joy and select semifinalists. All semifinalists will have their submissions posted online for audience voting and win two tickets to the February premiere, Abundance: Joyful Noise. We’ll announce the finalists at FUSE—our September dance party and 23rd season opener celebration. Then, each finalist will work with Ballet Memphis dancers who will turn your spark of joy into a new professional dance work. We’ll be watching the process, and will announce the overall winner at our November performance of Wizard of Oz. If you win, you’ll be watching Ballet Memphis perform your happy dance on opening night at Playhouse on the Square in February 2010.
FUSE is a series of community-wide events that celebrates the fusion of imagination, joy, and collaboration that dance ignites in all of us. So embrace that flicker of creativity that burns deep inside you! Start dancing, start filming, and start sharing your happy dance with us.
Find an entry form at balletmemphis.org/fuse.
