The Holocaust & Humanity Project. This full-length contemporary ballet is one piece of a community wide educational initiative around The Holocaust. The work was imagined as a way for art, specifically dance, to convene a broad conversation about The Holocaust and contemporary issues of genocide and human rights. According to an archived article by the Huffington Post, “Mills created the confrontational, distinctly contemporary ballet in 2005 after spending 18 months researching the Holocaust, when Germany's Nazi party exterminated more than 6 million Jews during World War II. The ballet is set to contemporary music by Steve Reich, Evelyn Glennie, Michael Gordon, Arvo Part and Philip Glass." In 2005, Light / The Holocaust and Humanity Project was featured in KLRU's Arts In Context Ballet Austin’s Light / The Holocaust and Humanity Project which won a Lone Star Emmy Award in the Magazine Format Program category. KLRU won a second Lone Star Emmy Award for their segment Producing Light, also depicting Mills’ ballet. See also Ballet Austin References External links Stephen Mills Introduction Ballet Austin's Website Ballet choreographers American male ballet dancers Living people 1960 births