Meditations

Ballet 5:8 Artistic Director Julianna Slager’s 2016 Premier Meditations is inspired by C.S. Lewis’ essay Meditation in a Toolshed.

"I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood that beam of light, with the specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place…”

Originally premiered in 2016, Meditations explores how a different perspective can lead two different people to the same conclusion. In Meditation in a Toolshed, Lewis uses this analogy to describe the mystery of faith

Premiere: October, 2016
Restaged: October, 2019
Choreography: Julianna Slager
Costumes: Lorianne Robertson