Okay, there are times when I indulge and this is one of them. The Bowen-McCauley Dance Company (BMDC) will be going on their first international tour since our son joined the company and this is the first time they have been invited to the Far East.

“Guangdong Modern Dance Festival Guangzhou, China

 BMD embarks on its first tour to China, with stops in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. We are honored to be part of the Guangdong International Modern Dance Festival, and look forward to numerous performing, teaching and speaking engagements while we are abroad. We are especially excited to work with the American Consulate to bring Dance for PD classes to Southern Hospital.” (http://bmdc.org)

I apologize for the stray lines in here that I can’t seem to remove, but needless to say, the members of the company are thrilled and everyone is getting their passports ready. For those who have followed the blog, you know that although we hadn’t expected our son to become a professional dancer, we worked through the imminently practical objections that we had as his sheer passion for it and his wife’s willingness to support him was combined with watching his talent expand with each season. It is still very close to being a “starving artist’s life”, a cobbled together career of performing and teaching, an understanding that for the physical performer, the years go by so quickly. But in those years, there are the memories that are built and captured in photographs and video, and now there will be a tour to China added to it. Oh, the photo above (son is in the red shirt) isn’t of one of the performances they will be doing at the festival – it just happens to be one that I really like.