JCC CELEBRATES TWO DECADES OF DANCE WITH RETROSPECTIVE.HOUSTON--The Jewish Community Center's Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre celebrates its twentieth anniversary this month with a retrospective of past companies, master classes by Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and Mark Morris Dance, an evening of ballroom fun, a residency by Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble A group of dancers preforming under a common name: the dance equivalent of a band. Examples would be Riverdance and Shuvani. and a tap jam. There are so many festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. , in fact, that the 2000 Dance Month is really five weeks. Dedicated volunteer Hilda Frank founded the event in 1979. A native Houstonian, born and raised in the Bayou City Bayou City is a popular nickname for Houston, Texas, founded at the confluence of White Oak and Buffalo Bayous by the Allen Brothers in the early nineteenth century. Since that time, the ubiquitous namesake streams have played a major role in the city's developoment, both as area, Frank has "been a professional student since I was three," she says, adding that she has studied ballet, modern, flamenco, and ethnic dance. Frank had an Israeli folk-dance troupe for sixteen years and taught dance "on and off between babies." When the JCC JCC Jewish Community Center JCC Jackson Community College JCC Jefferson Community College JCC Joint Consultative Committee JCC Jamestown Community College (Olean and Jamestown, New York) JCC Johnston Community College wanted to start a dance department, Frank and teacher Maxine Silberstein designed the curriculum. Silberstein went on to become the full-time dance coordinator while Frank kept volunteering as the center's chair on the dance committee. When the students wanted to perform, the idea of a recital turned into a full-blown dance spectacular, possibly drawing elements from Frank's tenure at Jacob's Pillow. "I got a scholarship there in 1959," she explains. "I'm that old that I knew Ted Shawn Noun 1. Ted Shawn - United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972) Shawn ." One thing both women wanted early on was a chance for local choreographers to show their works. Many dancers from Houston Ballet The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fifth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. [1] cut their dancemaking teeth during Dance Month, including Sandra Organ, who went on to create her own contemporary company. Both Organ and Sean Kelly Sean Kelly is the name of:
"Every year I say this is my last year," says Frank. "And then Maxine and I see something that gets us so excited we start planning for next year." |
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