Music in Motion Presents ‘A Christmas Spectacular’: Island Center Saturday

Music in Motion has been an integral part of the St. Croix community for 42 years. This year, the dance students will be back on the big stage at Island Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday at 7 p.m. with their presentation of “A Christmas Spectacular.”

The evening performance is produced and directed by Charlita Schuster. Tickets are available at the door and through parents of Music in Motion students: adults, $20 and children, 12 and under, $10. Schuster started dancing at the age of five in New York. She danced on St. Croix with Atti Bermudez of Theater Dance at seven years old and went back to New York to learn the Russian method of the Vaganova ballet syllabus and continued from there with her professional career. Artistic Director Schuster founded Music in Motion Dance Academy in 1983 on St. Croix.

When Schuster noticed that several dance academies had sprung up on St. Croix, she decided to use the Vaganova ballet syllabus to train her St. Croix students. With the eight levels of training that she studied most of her life and was certified with, Schuster decided to change the name to Music in Motion School of Higher Dance Education.