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Dance for World Community FestivalDance for World Community™ Festival - June 12 & 13, 2010The 2nd Annual Cambridge/Boston Dance for World Community™ Festival will be held on Saturday June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2010. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE 2010 DANCE FOR WORLD COMMUNITY FESTIVAL PERFORMER/INSTRUCTOR APPLICATION. The First Annual Dance for World Community™ Festival was a tremendous success with with over 15,000 attendees, the Festival featured 39 diverse performing companies, free classes taught in 20 dance forms, informational tables for 25 local social service and advocacy organizations, food vendors, book signings, and a street dance party for the entire community. The Cambridge/Boston DWC Festival serves as a national model and, with the anticipated development of the project's global network, DWC Festivals will soon be launched in other parts of the country as well. As such, this Festival presents a unique opportunity for the area's dance community and the community at large. In collaboration with local civic agencies and businesses, the Festival will feature: * Area dance companies, youth troupes and free introductory classes, representing diverse forms for dance; * Table/booth displays by the area's social advocacy/service sector and opportunities for the public to connect with their representatives * "Dancing in the Street," a come-one-come-all culmination of the day's events with music and other entertainment. LIST OF 2009 FESTIVAL PERFORMERS Click here for the full performance schedule Accumulation Dance Anikai Dance Anna Myer and Dancers Beat Tree Benkadi BoSoma Brazilian Cultural Center of New England Claudia Schreier & Dancers Contrapose Dance Dance Currents Dance Visions, Inc. Falling Flight Project Gloria Benedikt Hip Hop Mamas Jane Goldberg José Mateo Ballet Theatre Ken Pierce Renaissance Dance Ensemble Larissa Douglas Contemporary Dance Legacy Dance Company Losst Unnown, Inc. Mariah Steele Neoteric Dance Collaborative Octavia Cup Dance Theatre Peanut Butter & Jelly Dance Company Polynesian Dance Arts Prometheus Dance Prometheus Dance Elders Ensemble Ritmo en Accion Riverside Squares Rozann Kraus Salsa y Control Dance Company Silimbo Snake Dance Theater Triveni Dance Ensemble Urbanity Dance Project Viktor Plotnikov Wilmington Dance Academy YouthWorks LIST OF 2009 INTRODUCTORY LEVEL CLASS INSTRUCTORS Click here for full class schedule Betsi Akerstein (Urbanity Dance Project) - Contemporary Fusion, ages 7-12 Melinda De Araújo (Afro Brazil) - Afro-Brazilian Dance and Samba Reggae. ages 13+ Elizabeth Bernstein (Hip Hop Mamas) - Hip Hop, ages 13+ Juliette Cusick (Snake Dance Theater) - Middle Eastern Oriental & Fusion, ages 7-12 Larissa Douglas (Larissa Douglas Contemporary Dance) - Limon, ages 19+ Johnny Giraldo (Salsa y Control Dance Company) - Beginner Salsa, ages 13+ Thelma Goldberg (The Dance Inn) - Beginner Tap, ages 13+ Joan Green - Modener/Improv, ages 13+ Kathryn Hassinger (Dance Currents, Inc.) - Modern, ages 13-18 Katherine Hooper (BoSoma) - Contemporary Movement Creation, ages 7+ Wendy Jehlen (Anikai Dance) - Contemporary, ages 19+ Losst Unnown - Grassroots Street Dance, ages 13+ Wilmayer Marcelin (Fantezi Kreyol Dance Company, Inc) - Hatian Folk Dance, ages 13+ Marta Moussa (Polynesian Dance Arts) - Hawaiian/Tahitian, ages 13+ Ken Pierce (Ken Pierce Renaissance Dance Ensemble) - Renaissance/Baroque, ages 7-12 Sheryl Pollard-Thomas (Boston Arts Academy) - Horton Technique, ages 13+ Kevin Ring - American Social Ballroom, ages 13+ Cathi Tetreault (Riverside Squares) - Square Dance, ages 7+ Jeanne Traxler (Peanut Butter & Jelly Dance Company) - Creative Movement, ages 4-6 2009 SOCIAL ADVOCACY AGENCIES & TRADE GROUPS Adbar Amnesty International The Berkana Institute Boston Dance Alliance Cambridge-San José Las Flores Sister City Cambridge United for Justice with Peace Centro Latino Centro Presente Community Works Critical Breakdown Cultural Agents Initiative Dance Complex Environment Massachusetts Grassroots International Homelessness Empowerment Project Interaction Institute for Social Change National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Old Cambridge Baptist Church Rainwater Recovery, Inc Solutions at Work Transition House 2009 FESTIVAL SPONSORS Platinum Sponsor Wooden Kiwi Productions Gold Sponsors Bingham McCutchen, LLC Stop & Shop Silver Sponsor Irving House at Harvard Bronze Sponsor Cambridge Trust Company Herb Chambers Automotives Small Business Sponsors Stone Communications Grafton Street Restaurant Gnomon Copy |
