The Life Ballet Updated
One in three women will have an abortion by the time they are 45 years old. Once a woman has one abortion and the spirit of death enters her soul, she is likely to go on and have two to five more. These numbers are not exempt in "the church." One in four pregnancies end in abortion. The highest percentage of abortions are for women who are in their late teens and early 20s. One in five college students will have an abortion. Nearly 4000 human beings in the United States alone die every day at the hand of abortion. We can no longer find peace with the killing.
The Life Ballet is a show written from the perspective of a woman who had made the choice of abortion. The heart of the show is to educate audiences of the important side of the story that is not widely shared until recent years with the coming of age of a generation of men and women who were told their babies were just a "blob of flesh." The Life Ballet shows through dance, artistry and original songs a story of how destinies were lost through abortion – that of two unborn children and also their mother. The audience sees how abortion alters the dances of our mother, whose name is Sarah, as she moves through innocence, deception, seduction, decision and death. The aftermath of abortion leaves her in a dance of a new kind, one tormented by the silence of shame. Watch as she grieves and mourns the loss of her unborn children, then watch as she discovers healing. As for the unborn children, whose names are Seraphina and Simon, well…..we’ll never know what could have been. They never had the chance to dance, at least not on this earth. This show is dedicated to them and to all the other children whose destinies have been lost from abortion.
The Life Ballet was written and created by Sandy Arena, a woman who had two abortions she deeply regrets when she was a young adult. Arena has had the opportunity to memorialize their lives and share this story with the family she now has. Visit www.thelifeballet.org.