Mirror, mirror

New mirrors in the studio...

Alison teaching Bellydancing at World Dance Day. Photo by Alfred For at Philly2Night.com.

Girard Street

We're just south of Girard St. A great divide of consciousness in the city. What I describe as a street of many personalities, lost and mixed identities; an afterthought in the city's psyche. But the man for whom it's named was very clear and very specific about who he was and continues to leave his mark on city history. Read up on your Stephen Girard...

http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/blog/738.htm

Patients with Parkinsons find Dance

A great NPR story on Parkinsons and Dance:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98230200

CALL FOR ARTISTS: TAke COver

TAke COver Dance SeriesThe 954 Dance Movement Collective of Philadelphia is accepting submissions for its TAKE COVER Dance series where we ask choreographers to submit new work using original/interesting covers of songs for short dance works. Have fun with it. The goal of this project is to highlight irreverent aspects of dance. Accepted artists will also receive 8 hours of free rehearsal space. The TAKE COVER performance series will take place at our low-tech 1140 sq foot studio October 2010. There is an 8 minute maximum-length for each final work. Interested artists should send an email to 954dmc[at]gmail.com with a cover letter describing their proposed new work, their resume and links of 2 short examples of their work, not more than 20 minutes combined. These work samples can be excerpts of longer works. If links are unavailable, feel free to drop off your application package with work sample to the studio. Submission Deadline: August 2, 2010

No Salsa Tonight

Tonight's salsa class has been cancelled by the teacher.

Class Cancelled Tonight

Hip Hop w/Jerome Harris is Cancelled. There will be no class this evening at 7PM.

Thank you