"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman

The Ones That Got Away

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She was a whirring dervish of dance, hard for the cameral lens to pin down. But those impressionistic painted moments just can’t be deleted without taking a second look.

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It was a musical evening of masterful performances from principal players of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, and one of the highlights was the debut performance of RSO director/conductor David Wiley’s new piece, Waltz & The Floyd Highway, and Katie Wells’ dance interpretation of it.

I’m working on a story and an in-focus photo spread on the Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival’s Mozart in May concert at the EcoVillage for this week’s Floyd Press. In the meantime, enjoy this teaser and these few non-blurred clips above and below.

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6 Responses | Add your Own

  • 1 artmusedog and carol:

    Great preview videos and what an event this is going to be and you get to photograph and write about it!

    Happy Week to you ~ ^_^

  • 2 judyt:

    you have an amazingly diverse and rich cultural society there, colleen, I envy you that.

  • 3 ladyfi:

    How wonderful!

  • 4 Molly:

    Great images, you really captured the smoothness of her movements

    Mollyxxx

  • 5 Sallie (FullTime-Life):

    Judy T , in her comment above, said exactly what I was going to say. Your pictures do beautifully catch the joy of the dance.

  • 6 Loose Leaf Notes » Blog Archive » VBRMF’s Mozart in May:

    […] 5. Elizabeth Shelor plays Dancla 5th air Varie with Wiley. 6. VBRMF president Randall Wells shook hands with concert goers from Brandon Oaks Retirement Center in Roanoke. The Brandon Oaks contingency filled the first two rows that were reserved for them. 8. Inspired by Shelor’s accomplishments, a 7th grader from Floyd (center) who is learning violin from Mac Traynham and Mike Mitchell waited to meet Shelor after the concert. Her mother is pictured far right. 9. Attendees mingle on the Event Center deck.  Watch video clips of the event HERE. […]

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