This annual event is a hit with attendees. This year we will be in a gorgeous new space, The Grandview at Millcreek Common, that will allow us to increase our capacity. And we'll have six new chefs for you to enjoy amazing dishes using our rescued food.
We'll have small bites from our six chefs for you to enjoy along with wine and beer as well as wellness shots and juices from our partner Vive Juicery. We'll have a DJ to pump up the music while you dance the night away and there will be a silent auction with sustainable items like outdoor adventures and food items for you to bid on. Get your groove on and join us!
I will never have the opportunity to get frisky at club Lau again (sigh), but I do have one more chance to DFMO in front of every senior and teacher I know in the middle of Copley formal. Although, Georgetown Day might provide another fine opportunity for this one.
Second Chance Dance isn't your typical dance studio. It caters specifically to adults who may have harbored a lifelong love for dance but never pursued it, or perhaps danced in their youth and are yearning to return. The studio provides a safe space for individuals to overcome self-doubt and embrace the joy of movement, regardless of experience level.
Led by seasoned and passionate instructors, the studio provides a wide range of dance styles, catering to diverse interests and skill levels. Whether you're drawn to the elegance of ballet, the expressiveness of modern dance, the energy of jazz, or the rhythmic joy of tap, Second Chance Dance has a class to ignite your inner dancer.
SCD is the perfect place for adults if you're looking to bring dance back into your life or if you're a beginner looking to try something new! Alyssa is so supportive and patient, but she pushes and challenges you to grow as well. She offers a fantastic array of classes, and the dancers there readily welcome you into the SCD family. It's an amazing and flexible environment for working adults who love dance. As a 40-yr old, I thought my time dancing had passed and I'm so grateful to be back at it!
I have been a martial artist for over two decades. One of the most beneficial things that I have done was to include dance in my training regiment. I became a member of Second Chance Dance Studios, and it has improved my footwork and spatial awareness. The Second Chance Dance will enhance your training to the next level.
Genuinely one of my favorite experiences. I have been looking for a dance class that caters SPECIFICALLY to adult learners with ZERO experience & THIS IS IT. As someone who takes a while to learn new things, I felt so encouraged not only from my teachers, but the environment itself to be vulnerable and open to this new experience. While we do learn the technical and historical stuff, which is incredibly helpful for someone like me who likes to know the, "WHY/HOW"...the physical instruction itself is broken down into layman's terms as to not overwhelm, but to truly TEACH. Whether you're a true beginner like me or someone who just wants to polish what they already know, SECOND CHANCE DANCE is the place for you. 10/10 experience.
The recreational dance program at Chance 2 Dance Studio is the best in the River Valley! Classes are available for students ages 2.5 to adult. Our dancers participate in classes specializing in ballet, lyrical, tap, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, musical theatre, and pom, as well as, tumbling and technique classes. Dancers are introduced to a variety of dance and movement concepts, vocabulary, and proper technique. Each recreational class emphasizes a fun, up-beat environment with age appropriate music. All of our recreational classes perform in our annual spring recital.
Chance 2 Dance strives to provide unique opportunities and outlets for the youth in the River Valley. So stepping into the All Star Cheer and Dance world is a natural fit. The C2D All Star Cheer and Dance Teams are groups for girls and boys ages 5-18. This program is for athletes that want to take their skills to the next level, be a part of a team that is like a family, and showcase their talents. Program goals include:
Second Chance Dance is an education based organization that focuses on bringing the community together while increasing access to arts, the knowledge of self-care, community building, financial literacy and communication. We provide access to these things through dance classes, seminars, workshops, meetups, and socials.
Merce Cunningham, considered the most influential choreographer of the 20th century, was a many-sided artist. He was a dance-maker, a fierce collaborator, a chance taker, a boundless innovator, a film producer, and a teacher. During his 70 years of creative practice, Cunningham's exploration forever changed the landscape of dance, music, and contemporary art.
Even at an early age, Merce Cunningham delighted audiences with his physical and expressive abilities, and his compelling stage presence. He had a deep well of energy for performing, a passion that would develop into an unparalleled and prolific career as a choreographer.
Cunningham started his own dance company in 1953 and created hundreds of unique choreographic works. Defined by precision and complexity, Cunningham's dances combined intense physicality with intellectual rigor. He challenged traditional ideas of dance, such as the roles of the dancers and the audience, the limitations of the stage, and the relationships between movement and beauty. Cunningham's embrace of an expanded possibility of dance, music, and visual arts reads like a how-to for pushing the boundaries of culture for subsequent generations.
Throughout his career, Merce Cunningham embraced technology in his work from early experiments with television and video to the use of computers, body sensors, and motion capture technology. These tools allowed him to sculpt, animate, and choreograph dance in entirely new ways and reimagine his understanding of the human body. In the 1990s, Cunningham pioneered the use of the computer as a choreographic tool. The software DanceForms could model and animate the human form, allowing Cunningham to visualize sequences and phrases of dance on screen, which he would then translate to a dancer's body.
In the 1970s and 80s, Cunningham became interested in creating dance works specifically to be filmed by a camera. Along with filmmakers Charles Atlas and Elliot Caplan, he developed imaginative new ways to capture and present the medium of dance through moving image. At the core of this strategy was the repositioning of the camera as the key part of the choreography, rather than a mere witness to the action. Through video, Cunningham could change perspective, move the camera through the studio, focus on unusual details, adjust scale and tempo, interweave scenes, and surround the viewing audience with movement. Utilizing unusual editing techniques and image manipulation, Cunningham and his collaborators invented a new genre of dance expression, continually pushing its practice in unexpected directions.
Multiple generations of dancers learned their craft from Merce Cunningham, often through classes he led in his New York studio. His rigorous and physically exacting technique explored, among other things, the idea of individual body parts operating independently of each other.
His philosophical teachings were just as influential. He taught his dancers to question commonly held assumptions about dance and the arts, inspiring legions of students through his commitment to experimentation and risk taking. And many with whom he worked would go on to become choreographic innovators in their own right.
One of the most fearless inspired artists of our times, Merce Cunningham's career was defined by discovery. Across seven decades, he reshaped dance into a new kind of art form, deeply influencing visual art, film, and music along the way. His ideas, artistry, and discipline continue to resonate with artists worldwide. Thanks to Cunningham and his collaborators, we live in a time of electrifying artistic convergence, a place where rigor and freedom can coexist in a common time.
Sameer Behl comes to Mumbai with Bollywood dreams, struggles through the day as a courier, and keeps failing in auditions for advertisements. He refuses to accept help from his father in Delhi and is thrown out of his rented flat by the landlord. One day, a movie director named Rajeev Sharma and his assistant director see Sameer dancing and call him to the office. Soon, Sameer is signed as the male lead in Sharma's film, and his friend Tina is selected as the choreographer on the same project. Homeless, Sameer sleeps in his car and works as a dance teacher at a school. Subsequently, Sameer loses the film and grows disillusioned. Tina tells him that she also quit her job as choreographer for the film because she saw how upset he was. Sameer realises Tina loves him. Tina encourages him to participate in a television talent-hunt show, the winner of which will win the same role that Sameer was to play. Sameer enters the contest and tells Tina that he loves her. Before the final round of the competition, he discovers that his father's shop in Delhi has been demolished. Sameer promises Tina that he will come back for her and returns to Delhi to help his father. After watching Sameer's performance on TV, his father convinces him to go back to Mumbai and participate in the show. Sameer is late to the final round and is initially denied entry. However, he convinces the director to give him a chance. He wins the competition and becomes the hero of the movie "Chance Pe Dance." He is shown walking the red carpet a year later with Tina.
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