Happy Birthday to GDC Dance, Therese!!

Happy Birthday to our talented dancer, Therese! We wish her a day full of fun and joy!!

Photo by Ruth Judson

Photo by Ruth Judson

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Photo by Ruth Judson

Ice Cream for Birthday!

This is how we celebrated the August birthday girls, Ivy and Therese with mini chocolate ice cream cones and green tea Mochi ice cream after a hard working rehearsal.Birthday

Happy National Dance Day!

Happy National Dance Day!! Make a move wherever you are! Let’s celebrate DANCE!! 

Photo by Ruth Judson

Photo by Ruth Judson

Happy Birthday to GDC Dancer Michelle!

Happy Birthday to our beautiful Michelle!! We wish her a day full of love and fun!!

Photo by Ruth Judson

Photo by Ruth Judson

Photo by Ruth Judson

Photo by Ruth Judson

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Pablo Picasso

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Photo by Ruth Judson

You can help support the arts by making a tax deductible donation to our 7-7-7 Summer fundraising drive. Every dollar counts.
We need your help raising $7,000 by 7/7… Thus, 7-7-7!
It’s been a very busy and exciting spring season at GDC… We’ve completed some wonderful performances including our full production ‘Hear Me Now!’ at the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival, ‘Motion in String’ at the Taiwan Night 2015 Concert at Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, ‘Unchain’, ‘Just One’ and more at the Artists-in-Residence Showcase at the Fredgren Studio Theater, and ‘That’s Mozart’ at the BalletNova Spring Concert. In addition to these great events, we premiered our new work ‘Six Degrees’ at the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival. This fall we are thrilled to be part of the Reston CenterStage 2015 – 2016 Performing Arts Season and we’ll be presenting a full production of ‘Chasing Horizons’ on October 21, 2015!
The funds raised during our 7-7-7 Campaign will help us cover the cost of our exciting 2015 calendar of productions and keep our artists working and creating to bring excellence in performing arts to the community. You can help us achieve our goal of raising the needed funds with your tax deductible contribution.
Please give whatever you can … Every dollar donated will bring us closer to our goal. TOGETHER, we can keep the curtain up!
Give now: https://gindance.com/gdcs-2015-7-7-7-campaign/

 

Happy Birthday, America!

Happy 4th of July!! Let’s celebrate the freedom and this wonderful nation we have!

Photo by Ruth Judson

Photo by Ruth JudsonHap

Julie Kent: A Ballerina Says Goodbye to the Stage

“I think it’s important to understand that you don’t have to be born with some incredible, outstanding talent in order to be a success. What you need to do is focus on learning. You have to zoom in and focus really hard on the task at hand, and then you have to come out and focus on the big picture. It’s just developing yourself, and it’s not easy, but to me, it’s what it’s all about. Fulfilling your potential.” — Julie Kent
Read more: Julie Kent http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexandra-villarreal/julie-kent-a-ballerina-sa_b_7621434.html

Tour at Janelia Research Campus

Barre Stretch before the tour begins at Janelia Research Campus.

Barre Stretch before the tour begins at Janelia Research Campus. 😀

tour at Janelia Research Campus.tour at Janelia Research Campus.Thank you Huai-Ti for such a fun tour at Janelia Research Campus. 😀

Arts Matters

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton  

'Unchain' Choreographed and Performed by Shu-Chen Cuff. Photo by Ruth Judson

‘Unchain’ Choreographed and Performed by Shu-Chen Cuff. Photo by Ruth Judson

‘Six Degrees’

Some great photos from our “Six Degrees” performances at the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival last weekend!  

‘Six Degrees’ – Choreographed by Shu-Chen Cuff, Gin Dance Company as a featured performer at the 2015 Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival on May 16 & 17, 2015 which took place at the Reston Town Square Park in the Reston Town Center.  This event commemorated Sculpturer Patrick Dougherty’s newest project at Reston Town Square Park. Just as the Dougherty sculpture is comprised of individual saplings intertwining with each other to give shape and form to an overall structure bringing a level of meaning and purpose that any one sapling could never have done on it’s own. Shu-Chen Cuff explores through her choreography of Six Degrees how we, as individuals, intertwine our lives with those around us, and they with those around them, and so on until we form a network that gives meaning, structure and purpose that any one individual could never have accomplished on their own.  Shu-Chen brought in her Gin Dance Company Dancers along with an extended cast.  Check out the video: ‘Six Degrees’
Photo by Amazing Ruth Judson'Six Degrees' at the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival
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