NDI-NM Broadway Bound! 2014

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Students from Jefferson, Southern Heights, Will Rogers and Broadmoor - along with some of their teachers - got a taste of a Broadway musical when the National Dance Institute came to town on Friday. 
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be?”

- Maryanne Williamson

This summer, I was traveling back from a meeting in Santa Fe on US 285 and made that familiar left turn on US 82. It was close to midnight and with Artesia in my rearview mirror, the road turned very dark, although in the distance there were islands of light from the oil rigs which I could follow all the way home. When the rest of the state slept, southeastern New Mexico was full of activity. This area of New Mexico continues to burn the midnight oil and drive the economy of the state to a place which is world renowned for innovation in the energy sector. This current energy boom has guided New Mexico and the country through a dark recession that started in 2007. All the while, the oil patch has consequently seen a renaissance of interest in the fine arts. It is also a place where thousands of students call home.

The fine arts play an important role in the development of a student. Each line and song in NDI-New Mexico’s productions are choreographed to stick in each student’s growing brain. Current brain research shows that musical and dance activities turn on the part of the student’s brain that produces brain cells. By the end of the NDI-New Mexico residency, the students leave Tydings Auditorium with larger brains than when they started two weeks earlier.

New York City is where NDI-New Mexico originated before coming to this state. This year’s NDI-New Mexico program pays homage to that Great White Way in the heart of Manhattan - Broadway. The last time I visited New York City, I crossed the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan. The buildings grew larger and brighter and the stars completely disappeared from the light of the city. I stayed at the Edison Hotel in Times Square which is the area of town that is as bright as day in the middle of the night. At night a sea of people gathered down Broadway. I went to the old Gershwin Theatre to see the musical “Wicked”. The theater was about the size of Tydings Auditorium, however, the stage itself was a cross between a machine and a work of art. The musical had flying monkeys flying out into the audience on wires and a green witch “floating” up from the stage floor to tower over the audience singing “Defying Gravity”. This is what Broadway is at its best. The lights from the marquee attract the masses from all over the world. The spotlight of the Broadway stage attracts the best of us.

Some students no doubt will be bound for that spotlight. Others will be drawn to other fields where they can share their excellence in the arts, sciences, industry, and medicine. Russell Baker said it best when he said the most important thing is that the students are bound for somewhere. They have a light for the world that only they can give. NDI-New Mexico directors Lizeth and Leslie have brought it out of many of the students these past two weeks.

A culture of a community, at its worst, creates a seemingly unending darkness of limitations and broken dreams yet, at its best, can speak to our better instincts. Like the lighted oil rigs in the midnight hours in southeastern New Mexico; it is the responsibility of the community to help light the way for the students in Hobbs to be bound for excellence.

Thank you for supporting the arts and kids.



 

Fine Arts Coordinator  Tyson Ledgerwood 

Elementary Fine Arts Coordinator

Hobbs Municipal Schools

 

 
Maryanne Williamson quote from www.thinkexist.com
 


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NDI-New Mexico director Lizeth was interviewed by the Spur TV Group at lunch time at Southern Heights Elementary.  

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 The NDI-New Mexico Art Contest Winners are Chosen!

 
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