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 Summer
Highlights
"I
learned how to open myself up and dance with everything around
and inside of me."
"This
experience gave me the confidence to reveal myself through
dance."
-St. Joseph Ballet Students
The Limon Company hit a highpoint
amidst the series of residencies that spanned its summer season
with a two-week workshop at St. Joseph Ballet, a multi-racial
community-based dance center in Santa Ana, California.
With residency projects typically focused on dancers at the
college and pre-professional level, the St. Joseph workshop
was unique in that its participants ranged in age from 8 to
19 years old. Students engaged in technique classes,
lectures, film screenings and repertory work, which included
sections from A Choreographic Offering and The
Unsung.
Working with such
world-renowned dancers, the young students found their experiences
with the Limon Company to be embracing and inspiring.
They marveled at how two short weeks could instill an entirely
new way of dancing in them. Company members were equally
moved and inspired as they watched students grow more confident
and capable. The Limon Company conitued its residency
work with a three-week teaching and performing residency in
Fredonia, New York followed by a week of performances in Colombia,
South America. They concluded their travels in October
with a week-long residency and performances at Virginia Commonwealth
University.
"What is
so wonderful about residencies...is watching the students
share all that they have learned with such enthusiasm and
passion."
-Limon Company
member, Kristen Foote
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