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Dance for World Community FestivalSaturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2010DANCE FOR WORLD COMMUNITY FESTIVAL Saturday, June 12, 2010, 12:00-10:00pm The Second Annual Dance for World Community™ Festival hopes to build on the great success of the inaugural Festival in 2009! This year we're proud to welcome over 40 local dance groups, classes in several difference dance forms and more than 20 local social service and advocacy organizations! Please join us for this FREE celebration of dance and community! Please scroll down for the full list and schedule of performance groups and classes! "TALK ABOUT DANCE!" Expanding the role of dance in community: Partnership, Leadership, Outreach, and Education Sunday, June 13, 2010, 2:00-6:00pm If you agree that dance has vastly underutilized potential as a powerful force that can shape communities, then join in this first of a series of open discussions, "Talk about Dance," a program of Dance for World Community Barbara Schaffer Bacon, co-director of Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, will kick off an afternoon of learning, conversation and social interaction - all around dance and the expanded role it can play in galvanizing our communities to meet the civic, social and environmental challenges we all face today. Click here for the list of panelists and the schedule of events or call 617-354-7467 for more information! Would you like to volunteer at the Festival? Click here to look at the Volunteer Handbook and contact Adina Beer at 617-354-7467! LIST OF 2010 FESTIVAL PERFORMERS Click here for a full performance schedule! African Community Education Anikai Dance Back Pocket Dancers Ballet Arts Center of Winchester Benkadi Drum & Dance Boston Arts Academy Boston Swing Central Boston Tap Company BoSoma Brazilian Cultural Center of New England Chhandika: Chhandam Institute of Kathak Dance Chu Ling Dance Academy Contrapose Dance Dance Currents Dance'n Feet Dances With Wheels Falling Flight Project Hip Hop Mamas Jane Goldberg Johara & Snake Dance Theater José Mateo Ballet Theatre José Mateo Ballet Theatre's YouthWorks Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company & Ensemble Chaconne Kinodance Larissa Douglas Contemporary Dance Legacy Dance Company LSS-Iraqi, Burmese, Bhuttanese Margot Parsons Dance Company Navarasa Dance Theater Neena Gulati & Triveni Ensemble Neoteric Dance Collaborative Prometheus Dance Ritmo en Accion Rozann Kraus Salsa y Control Dance Company Sangita Bollywood Screech to a Stop Dance Company Spunk and Company Sun Ho Kim and Dancers Swagga, Inc. The Village Urbanity Dance Project Wilmington Dance Academy Xuchipilli Young Ladies Belly Dance LIST OF 2010 INTRODUCTORY LEVEL CLASS INSTRUCTORS Click here for the full class schedule! Betsi Akerstein (Urbanity Dance Project) - Contemporary Fusion, ages 13-18 Elizabeth Bernstein (Hip Hop Mamas) - Hip Hop, ages 19+ Johara (Snake Dance Theater) - Middle Eastern Oriental & Fusion, ages 13+ Larissa Douglas (Larissa Douglas Contemporary Dance) - Limon, ages 13+ Sean Fielder (Boston Tap Company) - Tap, ages 4-12 and 13+ Johnny Giraldo & Kelly Silfies (Salsa y Control Dance Company) - Beginner Salsa, ages 13+ Joan Green - Modener/Improv, ages 13+ Kathryn Hassinger (Dance Currents, Inc.) - Modern, ages 19+ Gretchen Hayden (Chhandika) - Kathak Classical Northan Indian, ages 7-12 and 12+ Julie Irish (Boston Swing Central) - Swing, ages 19+ Wendy Jehlen (Anikai Dance) - Contemporary, ages 13+ Chu Ling (Chu Ling Dance Academy) - Chinese Traditional, ages 4+ Wilmayer Marcelin (Fantezi Kreyol Dance Company, Inc) - Hatian Folk Dance, ages 13+ Ken Pierce (Ken Pierce Renaissance Dance Ensemble) - Renaissance/Baroque, ages 7+ Sheryl Pollard-Thomas (Boston Arts Academy) - Horton Technique, ages 13+ Kevin Ring - American Social Ballroom, ages 7+ Jeanne Traxler (Peanut Butter & Jelly Dance Company) - Creative Movement, ages 4-12 Kaili Turner (Swagga, Inc) - Hip-Hop, ages 13-18 Rachel Werkman (Brazilian Cultural Center of New England) - Samba & Brazilian Rhythms, ages 13+ LIST OF PARTICIPATING SOCIAL SERVICE AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS (as of 06/01/10) Amnesty International Barakat World Best Buddies Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay Boston Dance Alliance Boys & Girls Club of Middlesex County Cambridge Arts Council Cambridge Health Alliance Cambridge-San Jose Las Flores Sister City Cambridge United for Justice with Peace Central Square Theater Community Works Cultural Agents Initiative Environment Massachusetts Haitian Coalition Homelessness Empowerment Project & Spare Change Newspaper Massachusetts Dance Education Organization MassBIKE Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Transition House 2010 FESTIVAL SPONSORS Platinum Sponsor Wooden Kiwi Productions Gold Sponsors Bingham McCutchen, LLC Stop & Shop Bronze Sponsor Cambridge Trust Company Small Business Sponsors Broadway Marketplace Irving House at Harvard Stone Communications Veritas Tutors Hong Kong Restaurant Nike Tirman at Coldwell Banker, Residential Brokerage, 1730 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Grafton Street Restaurant Harvest Restaurant International School of Boston |
