Firebird Dance Today: Happy New Year...Now let's talk about Halloween.

We'd like to wish you all a very Happy New Year! 2010 is here. New Year's Eve has come and gone. The ball has dropped and the confetti has landed. What now? Why, Halloween, of course!

You may not think that January is the time to think about Halloween. So let us prove you wrong and explain why we seriously have Halloween on the brain and why you should be seriously excited.

On December 19, we had an encore performance of our latest show, Simcha. It was about family, tradition, love, history as tangible and true to life as an old photo album.

Now it's time to turn over a new leaf and start a brand new show. And this one will take us in a whole new direction. We have begun the first steps of work and choreography for our upcoming show, A Vampire Dinner Party, which should be ready by October 2010, in time for Halloween.

And where Simcha was all about a loving tribute to real life, A Vampire Dinner Party will be a departure into a much more fantastical world.

It's a world we've just begun constructing,

a world that will be deliciously decadent, imaginative, mystical, funny, spooky, wild, mysterious, bold, carnivorous, and breathtaking. Imagine a mansion on Halloween night where the real, the imagined, the living and the not-so-living come together to toast to the wildest night of the year. Imagine a grand ball. And imagine yourself as a guest and a voyeur, catching a peak into the many rooms of this mansion, each holding different stories, secrets, and surprises. Any proper mansion — and especially one on Halloween night — has a good ghost story, a good love story, a skeleton or two in the closet, deadly thrills and lively music. It's a Vampire Dinner Party. And your invited — as dinner.

We wanted to share with you some of our first ideas, impressions, and images of the choreography and the costumes for the show that's already got us possessed. Take a look at the photos of our first steps towards putting this show together.