Dustin Kimball and Alison Crosby, Bowen-McCauley Dance Company, Photo by John McCauley

Okay, there are moments that can’t help but give me a smile. As those who follow the blog regularly know, son is a dancer in Northern Virginia and dances with the Bowen-McCauley Dance Company and is one of the senior instructors at the Fairfax Center for Ballet Arts. We try to go up once a year for a performance and missed last year due to scheduling conflicts. We were in DC a couple of weeks ago and I did a series of posts about that visit and the Fall Show of the Fairfax Center for Ballet Arts that we enjoyed.

The new season for Bowen McCauley sounds like a great line-up (http://www.bmdc.org) and we hope to make the Victory Road show. The thing that made me smile is that the company also does some collaborative work where they appear for only one or two numbers as a part of a particular event. That apparently was something they did the week before we went up. Even though it wasn’t a major performance, the event was covered in one of the sections of the Washington Post to include a really nice shot of our son. Now, he’s been in the Post before, although it doesn’t usually give his name. It is one of those “proud mom moments” that make us understand how deeply committed our son is to dance whether cameras are present or not.