Avon Elementary Celebrate The Beat Students Headed To The White House September 7
August 31, 2010 · Posted by Vail Valley Foundation Blog ·
For Avon Elementary School students Colby Lange and Luisa Taal, the road to enhanced learning via the performing arts will soon lead them to the home of the First Family as the pair of “Celebrate the Beat” dancers join forces with a national group that will participate in a special event at the White House on September 7 in conjunction with a tribute to the work of Judith Jamison.First Lady Michelle Obama will host the workshop and performance in recognition of Jamison’s outstanding career as a dancer, choreographer and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre for the ...
National Dance Institute Founder To Conduct Celebrate The Beat Master Class At Ford Amphitheater On Saturday
August 31, 2010 · Posted by Vail Valley Foundation Blog ·
The founder of the national program that resulted in the creation of Celebrate the Beat will make a trip to the Vail Valley Saturday, September 4, as internationally renowned arts education leader Jacques d’Amboise conducts a special Celebrate the Beat master class for top students from the Avon Elementary School program.Scheduled from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater and open for public viewing, the class will provide an intimate behind the scenes look at the program, culminating with a 20-minute dance demonstration at noon.Recognized as one of the finest classical dancers of our time, d’Amboise ...
Cocktails For A Cause–The VPAC Takes Over The Bar At Larkspur On Wednesday
August 30, 2010 · Posted by Vail Valley Foundation Blog ·
Drinks and door prizes will be the order of the evening Wednesday, September 1, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. as Vilar Performing Arts Center staff members Kris Sabel, Martha Brassel and Jason Denhart move behind the bar at Larkspur for an entertaining evening of “Cocktails For A Cause” to benefit the theatre’s STARS (Support The Arts Reaching Students) Program.Twenty percent of all bar sales will be donated to the STARS Program for new initiatives this winter targeting high school students. Each year, the Vilar Center provides free transportation and tickets to more than 5,000 Eagle and Lake County students to expose ...
Artichoke Dance Company’s Human Mapping Project
August 29, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
It’s site-specific, environmentally conscious, historically reflective, and interactive! Artichoke Dance Company combines performance with ecological activism and volunteerism in a new project on New York shorelines, Your Planet: The Human Mapping Project. Director and choreographer Lynn Neuman collaborates with scientists and architects from the Urban Design Lab’s Plastic Trash Patch Project, part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, to focus on one of New York’s greatest assets, its shoreline (there are over 600 miles of shoreline across the five boroughs). Performances, which are aligned with beach clean up days, sponsored by the American Littoral Society, bring awareness to the impact of human consumption ...
Benefit Kelly Liken Dinner Raises Funds For Vail Valley Foundation’s Sowing Seeds Program
August 26, 2010 · Posted by Vail Valley Foundation Blog ·
The servers shared the spotlight with the celebrity chef August 20 as Vail restaurateur and “Top Chef’s” Kelly Liken joined forces with a quartet of Brush Creek Elementary School students to produce a four-course epicurean delight, all to benefit the Vail Valley Foundation’s Sowing Seeds educational initiative.Hosted by Margie and Tom Gart at their Lake Creek home, the event raised funds for the pilot greenhouse project at Brush Creek Elementary as local couples enjoyed the gourmet dining experience.Created in conjunction with Liken, Sowing Seeds students plant and care for their own gardens in the Brush Creek greenhouse. The program not ...
Legendary Ballet School to Close
August 24, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
Irine Fokine, photo by Chris Peters for NorthJersey.com
After more than sixty years, the Irine Fokine School of Ballet of Ridgewood, New Jersey is closing. Founded by Fokine, the Russian-born daughter of Maryinsky Theater prima ballerina Alexandra Fedorova and the niece of choreographer Michel Fokine, the school was a mainstay of Ridgewood. It also happens to be the school where I studied ballet intensively for many years, starting when I was seven. I took my first point class and first partnering class there, and performed in my first of countless Nutcracker productions. The environment at the school was strict, sometimes frighteningly ...
Kidjo: Daughter of Independence
August 14, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Daughter of Independence
by Angélique Kidjo, On The Ground, New York Times, August 13, 2010
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Kidjo: Daughter of Independence
August 14, 2010 · Posted by InfiniteBody ·
Daughter of Independence
by Angélique Kidjo, On The Ground, New York Times, August 13, 2010
The Batonga FoundationInfiniteBody
http://infinitebody.blogspot.com
Celebrate The Beat video from 2010 Dance Festival
August 3, 2010 · Posted by Vail Valley Foundation Blog ·
Celebrate The Beat - 8.1.10Photo (C) 2010 Erin BaianoThe children of the Vail Valley's Celebrate The Beat program had their final summer 2010 performance on Sunday night at the Vail International Dance Festival.Opening for Pacific Northwest Ballet's Broadway, Ballet & Beyond performance at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, the kids got to perform on the big stage as part of the Festival.Enjoy a video from their performance below.Celebrate The Beat (CTB) teaches inspirational music and dance classes which help children discover their potential by motivating them to believe in themselves, value artistic expression and develop a personal standard of excellence. ...
Celebrate The Beat to Open for Pacific Northwest Ballet
July 29, 2010 · Posted by Vail Valley Foundation Blog ·
CTB Rehearsals 7.26.10 - Photo by Caitlin KakigiWhile some of the world’s best dancers are busy rehearsing on the stage at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, future dancers participating in the Celebrate the Beat (CTB) program are actively perfecting their dance moves, too.The opening act for the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Broadway, Ballet & Beyond performance on Sunday, August 1 at 7:30pm will feature a special performance by the Vail Valley’s CTB dancers.CTB summer camp participants have busily been rehearsing every day for a week to prepare for the debut of their performance on Sunday evening. As the opening act for ...
