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. Join us for the 2nd Annual DWC Festival this June!
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.
For more information visit http://www.ballettheatre.org/node/90
LIST OF 2010 FESTIVAL PERFORMERS (as of 05/18/10)
Full performance schedule coming soon!
Anikai Dance
BoSoma
Brazilian Cultural Center of New England
Chhandika: Chhandam Institute of Kathak Dance
Contrapose Dance
Dance Currents
Dance Visions, Inc.
Dance’n Feet
Falling Flight Project
Hip Hop Mamas
Johara & Snake Dance Theater
José Mateo Ballet Theatre
José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s YouthWorks
Ken Pierce Renaissance Dance Ensemble
Kinodance
Larissa Douglas Contemporary Dance
Legacy Dance Company
Neoteric Dance Collaborative
Prometheus Dance
Prometheus Dance Elders Ensemble
Ritmo en Accion
Rozann Kraus
Salsa y Control Dance Company
Screech to a Stop Dance Company
Spunk and Company
Sun Ho Kim and Dancers
Urbanity Dance Project
Wilmington Dance Academy
LIST OF 2010 INTRODUCTORY LEVEL CLASS INSTRUCTORS (as of 05/18/10)
Full class schedule coming soon!
Betsi Akerstein (Urbanity Dance Project) – Contemporary Fusion, ages 7-12
Elizabeth Bernstein (Hip Hop Mamas) – Hip Hop, ages 13
Johara (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
Joan Green – Modener/Improv, ages 13
Kathryn Hassinger (Dance Currents, Inc.) – Modern, ages 13-18
Gretchen Hayden (Chhandika) – Kathak Classical Northan Indian, ages 4 Wendy Jehlen (Anikai Dance) – Contemporary, ages 19
Wilmayer Marcelin (Fantezi Kreyol Dance Company, Inc) – Hatian Folk Dance, 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
Jeanne Traxler (Peanut Butter & Jelly Dance Company) – Creative Movement, ages 4-6
Rachel Werkman (Brazilian Cultural Center of New England) – Samba & Brazilian Rhythms, ages 13
2010 FESTIVAL SPONSORS
Platinum Sponsor
Wooden Kiwi Productions
Gold Sponsors
Bingham McCutchen, LLC
Stop & Shop
Bronze Sponsor
Cambridge Trust Company
Small Business Sponsors
Broad
