Album Notes

The Life Ballet and its original music is a show about choices. Journey with our character Sarah in her quest to find her King. Through the gentleness and beauty of song and dance, The Life Ballet shares a message of abstinence and LIFE to today's generation, while ministering healing in Jesus Christ to millions in the aftermath of abortion.

The heart of The Life Ballet is a musical 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 including her husband Sam, and children Alexis, Caleb and Annaliese.

Many of the performers and contributing artists have had abortions or their parents have had abortions, as well, making this a collaboration of men and women devoted to telling the truth of abortion to the generation behind. If abortion is still available legally, our fight is to make it unthinkable.

“I was thrilled by the ballet presented this evening. I am so glad to have had the opportunity to see the phenomenal and moving performance you and the dancers put to exceptionally well-matched music. The ballet, to me, is so unique a statement on abortion that I think it should be done as widely as possible,” said Gerry Oftedahl, President of the Board of Directors of Adult Stem Cell Initiative Inc., and a member of the Diocese of Rochester Policy and Planning Committee.

"The Life Ballet is a beautiful and very modern way to bring across the message of Life and abortion. The story presented by this group is heart changing and breaks down the walls of shame, guilt and hate by being a personal story of love and forgiveness." Pastor Ralph Molyneux, Victory Church Lethbridge, Canada.