ACCEPT Finale! Saturday at 2:30pm

ACCEPT will take its final bow this Saturday, July 27th at 2:30pm.  IBC has been asked to present this moving piece about four young women fining their way to tolerance and understanding at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20Gateway/174/183/21

Have you fallen in love with this piece, as so many have?  (or serious like!) Does its message resonate with you?  Great!  Bring your friends, share the word about this last performance.  It is always a good season for a story of acceptance!

Get your seat early and wrench down your viewer for the most comfy audience experience:
Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

Only one more performance of this acclaimed piece. !  Tell your friends and neighbors!

ACCEPT at MadPea Arts Festival!

 ACCEPT: "The originality of its concept and execution has raised the bar(re) for all SL dance companies."

ACCEPT at MadPea Arts Festival ~  Saturday, June 29th at 2:00pm SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Salette/172/38/1516

Get your seat early and wrench down your viewer for the most comfy audience experience:
Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

Only one more performance of this acclaimed piece. !  Tell your friends and neighbors!

SUNDAY! ACCEPT performs at the OLD ENGLISH VILLAGE SUMMERFEST !

 ACCEPT just keeps on rolling, with its message of understanding, empathy, and tolerance!

ACCEPT at the Old English Village Sunday, June 23rd at 2:00pm SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Old%20Europe/5/207/23

It's going to be a potentially laggy one!  So get your seat early and wrench down your viewer for the most comfy audience experience:

Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

Only two more performances of this acclaimed piece. "The originality of its concept and execution has raised the bar(re) for all SL dance companies."  

GREAT COMMENTS from SL Enquirer Performance

Thanks, Lanai, for your continued support and for having us over again!  Always a pleasure!

pet Karu shouts: excellent!!!!!!!!!! its such a beautiful message. i loved it

silver55713: so amazing

RON (ron.sin): awsome

Lanai Jarrico: great message

Nayade Xue: BRAVOOOOO

Nayade Xue: eXCELENT

Tamworthe: lovely

Lanai Jarrico: thank you for the great performance

No performance this week, but we'll be along next week with a performance at the Old Europe Fair!  Check back here for details and landmark information!

 

THIS WEEK! ACCEPT At the SL ENQUIRER HQ!

 The stage is set!  The paparazzi have not been fed in over a week!  Everything is in readiness for Saturday's performance of ACCEPT at the headquarters of the SL Enquirer (who sponsor this blog! - Thanks Lanai)

CEO and Editor Lanai Jarrico is a long lime supporter of Independent Ballet, and it is great to be able to perform for her once again!

In ACCEPT, four young women struggle with their sense of self and their place in the world around them.  They are united by one thing - their love of dance.  ACCEPT follows the journey of these young ladies as they are each uniquely challenged, and as they come together. They learn lessons of tolerance, compassion, and empathy as they come of age as dancers, and as women.

Make sure you get to see this original work that everyone is raving about before their tour ends. Only a few dates left.

 ACCEPT at the Headquarters of the SL Enquirer, Saturday, June 8th at 2:00pm SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Punta%20del%20Este/142/128/22
 
Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

NO Show This Week, but some great words from the Elysium Ballroom!

Here are some wonderful comments on last Saturday's performance ... echoing what so many have said about ACCEPT:

Babypea von Phoenix: it is such an amazing show, i am so happy i have gotten to see it

Jeni : We have learned to 'accept' the unexpected when performing....it's part of second life. *smiles*

Babypea von Phoenix: Thank you for coming and sharing your dance with us, we have greatly enjoyed this, and yes Aminata i have had major computer issues today

Babypea von Phoenix: it has such a powerful message, i think everyone should see it

Jeni: Beautiful performances, everyone!

Credence Halostar: oh dear, this is heart breaking . . . this is so beautiful

Credence Halostar cheers and applauds clapping until her hands bleed!!!!!!

Babypea von Phoenix: thank you for coming and i so greatly enjoyed getting to see this show

Credence Halostar wiping tears away, clapping

NEXT PERFORMANCE: Saturday, June 8th.  Check back here for time and location. 

There's More ACCEPT to Come!!!

Check it out!  Not only will ACCEPT be at the Empire Room this weekend, but there are performances scheduled all through June!

ACCEPT at the Empire Room of the Elysium Cabaret, Saturday, May 25th at 2:00pm SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Copperhead%20Road/214/63/2755

 
Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

 



And the acceptance just keeps on rolling!  Our Tour continues into June with scheduled performances on June 8th, 22nd, and 29th.  A special performance is also scheduled for the Best Practices in Education Conference on July 27th! Be sure and check back here for more details!
  

HOLA! ACCEPT at Opera Joven!

We are back at the stunningly beauitiful Opera Joven.  Come join us for another great performance of ACCEPT!

ACCEPT at Opera Joven, Saturday, May 18th at 2:00pm SLT http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Opera%20Joven/126/148/22


THE CLOCK IS TICKING TO SEE THIS MOVING BALLET PERFORMANCE, BASED ON AN ORIGINAL STORY BY IBC'S DEYNA BROEK ...
  

Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

NO SHOW THIS WEEK, But . . .

Yes, sadly this week's performance has been cancelled. But we have another treat!

Once again the amazing Pia Klaar has captured an IBC Production in video, and generously shares it with us all!  Mille Gracie Pia!

Check it out!

Our virtual tour of the moving ACCEPT continues today.  It's great to be back at Fusion performing Arts again, where we also performed Petah & The Wolf! :

Fusion Performing Arts ~   Saturday, May 4th at 2:00pm 
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WideWorld%20Amethysta/45/209/21

THERE ARE STILL A FEW PERFORMANCES LEFT, HAVE FRIENDS WHO HAVEN'T SEEN THIS YET?  BRING THEM ALONG! ...

Saturday, May 11th ~ Opera Joven
Saturday, May 18th ~ SL Enquirer HQ
... performance times will be posted closer to the day of event.
  

Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

ACCEPT Materializes at Brigadoon Today!

Our virtual tour of the moving ACCEPT continues today, as we appear out of the mists of time and security orbs:

Brigadoon ~   Saturday, April 27th at 2:00pm 
Because of region security and recent griefer activity, the venue will not be available until 1 hour prior to the performance, and therefore a slurl is not available at this posting.  Please contact a company member for the proper audience landmark between 1pm and 1:50pm day-of-show.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES INCLUDE...

Saturday, May 4th ~ Fusion Arts
Saturday, May 11th ~ Opera Joven
Saturday, May 18th ~ SL Enquirer HQ
... performance times will be posted closer to the day of event.
  

Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

Interested in booking ACCEPT?  Contact Dubhna Rhiadra for more details and to make your reservation.

ACCEPT at SOMA Spring Fair!

More Performances!

Our virtual tour of the moving ACCEPT is not coming to its conclusion after all.  We have at least four weeks more of interested venues teeming for bookings.  Come along and bring a friend!:


SOMA Spring Fair~   Saturday, April 20th at 2:00pm 
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Boudoir%20Isle/179/184/22

Come early and get your seat for this stunning performance.  
  

Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

Interested in booking ACCEPT?  Contact Dubhna Rhiadra for more details and to make your reservation.

ACCEPT Performs at Fruit Islands!

Our virtual tour of the moving ACCEPT is coming to its conclusion.  Only a few more performances left.  Today we will once again be in the lovely Fruit Islands on Mango in the Amphitheater. Catch this performance (and bring a friend!):


Fruit Islands - Mango Yacht Club ~   Saturday, March 13th at 2:30pm 
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mango/169/48/22

Come early and get your seat for this stunning performance.  
  

Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

Interested in booking ACCEPT?  Contact Dubhna Rhiadra for more details and to make your reservation.

Next week's performance is at SOMA, ... slurl pending

ACCEPT is back!

We are back after our Easter Hiatus with a few more performances in our tour before we pack our tutu's and roll the virtual roadcases into storage. Catch this week's performance (and bring a friend!):


The Garden at UUtopia ~ Saturday, April 6th at 2:30pm SLT
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife//240/161/21

Come early and get your seat for this stunning performance.  
  

Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

Interested in booking ACCEPT?  Contact Dubhna Rhiadra for more details and to make your reservation.

Next Performance will be ... 

Fruit Islands - Mango Yacht Club ~   Saturday, March 20th at 2:30pm 
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mango/169/48/22

ACCEPT part of the Third Annual StoryFest Today!

Independent Ballet is noted for its dedication to ballets which tell stories, using dance and the dance form to enhance the emotionality and drama of the tale told.  Today, ACCEPT will be a featured performance at the Third Annual STORYFEST celebration on Bran, where authors, storytellers and presenters of literature from all over the grid gather for one day to share their tales.

Today's Performance - STORYFEST 2013 ~ Sunday, March 24th at 1:00pm
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bran/251/246/3022

Come early and get your seat for this stunning performance.  

Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

Interested in booking ACCEPT?  Contact Dubhna Rhiadra for more details and to make your reservation.

Next Performance - The Garden at UUtopia ~ Saturday, April 6th (time tba)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife//240/161/21
 

ACCEPT at The Fruit Islands!

DUE TO A FAMILY EMERGENCY, TODAY'S PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 15th

IBC is ecstatic to return to Mango in the Fruit Island Estate (the largest privately owned Estate in SL) to perform their current touring production of ACCEPT.

Fruit Islands - Mango Yacht Club ~   Saturday, March 16th at 2:30pm 
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mango/169/48/22

Audience's are already raving at the power of this piece, which challenges us all to see beyond the surface view of what we think someone else "should" or "could" do and instead show empathy and compassion in trying to understand what they are truly going through as they travel life's path and face its challenges.

Come early and get your seat for this stunning performance.  

Your first time to a virtual ballet?  Check out the Audience Tips tab at the top of our blog for a more comfortable audience experience!

Next Performance - STORYFEST 2013 ~ Sunday, March 24th at 1:00pm
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bran/251/246/3022

Interested in booking ACCEPT?  Contact Dubhna Rhiadra for more details and to make your reservation.

Thank You Draghan & Brokeback!!!

A wonderful performance and a FABulously appreciative audience!

NEXT PERFORMANCE ...
Fruit Islands - Mango Yacht Club ~   Saturday, March 16th at 2:30pm 
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mango/169/48/22

ACCEPT Performs in Benefit at Brokeback!

Our tour is fully launched and on its way!  Stop #2 - The LGBT  Center's Drama Queen Theatre at Brokeback Pride HQ.  This performance is a benefit for the Brokeback Mountain sim's LGBT Civil Rights Center, which has been teaching tolerance, promoting advocacy, and fighting for Gay rights in SL since 2005.  (great promo post on the Gay Archipelago website today!)

A great cause and a great show!  Don't miss either one!

The performance is Saturday, March 9th at 2:30pm (time and day SLT)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Brokeback%20Pride%20HQ/72/51/22

Be sure and check out our "Audience Tips" tab to help make your audience experience, and those of your fellow residents, the best it can be!

ACCEPT Tour begins Saturday with benefit for Kenya Feed-a-Smile

Dubhna Rhiadra addresses Audience at ACCEPT Premiere

Thanks to a patient audience, and with little help from the stability of the grid, ACCEPT opened last weekend after a delayed start time.  Out gratitude for the faithful audience who waited and were able to stay in while SL was randomly booting people out ... including members of the company!

This week we move out, boldly onto the grid as ACCEPT moves on tour, starting with a benefit performance at Lavender Fields - a region which raises money for Kenya Feed-a-Smile.

Kenya Feed-a-Smile has provided over 96,000 individual meals to children in need in Kenya since the project began.  That's virtual concerts, live musicians, storytelling, and performances just like IBC's this Saturday.  Literally, Second Life events with Real World benefits, L$100 at a time (that's how many donations it takes to provide a single meal.).

Join Independent Ballet at Saturday's performance to support this wonderful humitarian effort, led in SL by Brique Topaz.

Be sure and check out our "Audience Tips" tab to help make your audience experience more comfy for you, and fellow guests.

Lavender Fields - Kenya Feed-a-Smile ~ Saturday, March 2nd at 3pm
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Feed%20A%20Smile/69/118/23

"ACCEPT" Premieres Saturday, February 23rd!

Saturday, February 23^rd at 2:30pm, Second Life's (c) Independent Ballet will premiere its newest original ballet, ACCEPT, at the Branwen Arts Center at 2:30pm SLT.   The performance is free to all SL Residents, with tips accepted.  The performance music is streamed, requiring no active voice chat.  See the "Audience Tips" tab for suggestions that will help you enjoy this newest performance that you will not want to miss!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bran/251/246/3022

In ACCEPT, four young women struggle with their sense of self and their place in the world around them.  They are united by one thing - their love of dance. 

There is Amy, danced and voiced by Annamaria Manatiso.  Amy comes from a poor but loving, and supportive home.  She struggles with her self confidence, knowing she’s a talented dancer, but embarrassed by the second hand, and often badly worn dance gear she wears by necessity because of her family’s financial challenges. 

There is Celine Clare (called “CC”), danced and voiced by Dubhna Rhiadra.  CC also comes from a supportive home – one based on activism and being true to your beliefs.  CC is her parent’s child, as she questions the norms of teen peer judgments by choosing her own path.

There is Emma, danced by Deadly Deed and voiced by Caledonia Skytower.  Emma is a talented, hardworking dancer. She finds herself living on the streets after her loving grandmother, who has had custody of her since the death of her parents, dies suddenly.  

There is Phoebe Tiana, danced and voiced by Deyna Broek.  She has grown up with all the advantages resources, and the inspiration of a prima ballerina mother, but she struggles with a low self-image.  She has the desire, even the talent, but fears that she just doesn’t “have the genes.”






ACCEPT  follows the journey of all four as they face their unique challenges, and each look at those around them - making judgments and observing the world around them, seeing only barriers.  

~ “She doesn’t look right.  She shouldn’t be here.”
            ~ “Who wants to see a fat girl dance?  She shouldn’t be here.”
                        ~ “If she ain’t gonna work, she shouldn’t be here.”
                                           ~ “ . . . I have no home.  I shouldn’t be here.”

Something sparks between these girls, and they challenge those barriers, embracing their diversity, and tearing down the walls that separate them. They come together and begin to see their world as larger than themselves; learning lessons of tolerance, compassion, and empathy as they come of age as dancers, and as women.

Based on an original concept by IBC's Deyna Broek, ACCEPT is set in our times, features a mix of ballet and modern dance styles, and IBC's signature blending of solo and group-synced performance.  Independent Ballet is committed to collaborative creativity in the expression and sharing of stories through original virtual dance productions.


All Photo Images and Poster Art by Fae Varriale 

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ACCEPT ~~ Current Tour Dates .... All times SLT

Premiere at Branwen Arts ~ Saturday, February 23rd at 2:30pm
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bran/251/246/3022

Lavender Fields - Kenya Feed-a-Smile ~ Saturday, March 2nd at 3pm
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Feed%20A%20Smile/69/118/23

Brokeback Mountain  ~ Saturday, March 9th at 2:30pm   
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Brokeback%20Pride%20HQ/72/51/22

Fruit Islands - Mango Yacht Club ~   Saturday, March 16th at 2:30pm 
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mango/169/48/22

StoryFest 2013 ~ Sunday, March 24th at 1pm
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bran/251/246/3022

The Garden at UUtopia ~ Saturday, April 6th (time tba)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife//240/161/21


Interested in booking ACCEPT?  Contact Dubhna Rhiadra for more details and to make your reservation.
 

"ACCEPT" ~ IBC's Newest Production!

In ACCEPT, four young women struggle with their sense of self and their place in the world around them.  They are united by one thing - their love of dance.  ACCEPT follows the journey of these young ladies as they are each uniquely challenged, and as they come together. They learn lessons of tolerance, compassion, and empathy as they come of age as dancers, and as women.

Based on an original concept by IBC's Deyna Broek, ACCEPT is set in our times, features a mix of ballet and modern dance styles, and IBC's signature blending of solo and group-synced performance.

Interested in booking ACCEPT?  Contact Dubhna Rhiadra after February 1 (2013) for more details and to make your reservation.

ACCEPT opens February 23rd ar Branwen Arts 

All Photo Images  and Poster Art by Fae Varriale

Annamaria Manatiso as "Amy"

Dubhna Rhiadra as "Cee Cee"

Deadly Deed as "Emma"

Deyna Broek as "Phoebe Tiana"

Dance Class at the Barre ~ Scene 1

The girls together - Scene 3

More from Dance Class - Scene 1