Back to New World School of the Arts!

On November 30, Saturday, we continued our road trip from St. Petersburg to Miami, FL.  We visited my college, New World School of the Arts, 14 years later!  The dance division is up on the 8th floor.  I miss my dance teachers and I would love to see them, but it was Thanksgiving weekend.  The building was so quiet…  However, I seem can still hear the music going in each studio and I seem can still see the dancers running in the hall way rushing to get into the dance class and rehearsals.  Great memories…

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Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We wish you all a warm and wonderful holiday. Thank you for being part of our lives.

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From Taiwan to Miami… It’s a Small World…

That’s right!  It wouldn’t be a vacation for me without some time in the dance studio!  My high school classmate Xiao-xuan who I haven’t seen for 20 years since we graduated from Tsoying High School is now dancing with Fuzion Dance Artists.  Amazingly, the Artistic Director of the company Leymis Bolanos Wilmott and dancer Erin Fletcher were my college classmates at New World School of the Arts – University of Florida whom I also haven’t seen since we graduated from school.  People say dance  world is so small.  No kidding!  Who knew that my classmate from Taiwan would one day dance with my friend from college in Miami. Thank you so much for having me in company class and rehearsal, Fuzion Dance Artists (Sarasota, FL)!  What a special reunion with classmates from high school and college!!  Hope to see you all soon in the near future.

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20 Years Later…

Dance is everywhere! 20 years later… We danced together again at Fuzion Dance Artists company class in Sarasota, FL!  Xiao-xuan was my classmate at Dance Division of Tsoying High School in Taiwan.  After I graduated from high school, I immigrated to U.S. and we haven’t seen each other since.  It was so good to see her with her beautiful little baby boy Max.  She looks so great!  I so admire her after gave birth, she got back in shape in no time and continue performing and choreographing.  Truly amazing!  Shu-Chen and Xiao-xuan Shu-Chen and Xiao-xuan Shu-Chen and Xiao-Xuan

Shu-Chen and Xiao-xuan

Dance is Everywhere

Dance is Everywhere!!  Ellen Overstreet up on Asolo Repertory Theater (Home of Sarasota Ballet)!!

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Dance is Everywhere

Dance is Everywhere!!

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Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival Artist Kick-Off Party

Last night our Executive Director Gary Cuff and Board of Director Liza Eller joined the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival Artist Kick-Off Party…  Every performing company has 14 words to describe their show for this festival which will start from February 21 – March 8, 2014.  Here is how it goes for our performance at 1:00 pm on March 8, 2014 – “Shaped in Taipei, Miami, Las Vegas, & DC – Culminates in ‘An Afternoon with GIN”

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‘Unchain’ on Youtube!

The work ‘Unchain’ – a breaking away and release of the past. Something we all must struggle to do at different points in our lives – that I choreographed and performed was premiered at the CenterStage in Reston on September 14 this year.  The excerpt video is now on Youtube.  Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j66Om4vLbdE&feature=share&list=UUm4IqclvjwQvIJJ3NAJwXrQ

Photo by Lindsay Benson Garrett

Unchain

Happy Birthday, Kaitlin!!

Happy Birthday, Kaitlin!!  Wish you a day as Beautiful as YOU!!!

Photo by Ruth Judson

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Giving Tuesday

GDC is so thrilled to be participating the 5th annual Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival – a multi-disciplinary performing arts celebration showcasing boundary-crossing work and a kaleidoscope of perspectives from today’s top performers from Washington D.C. and beyond. From February 21 – March 8, 2014, over 800 artists in 57 companies will present 80 performances to 12,000 patrons. To date, the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival has presented more than 4,000 artists in a festival that intersects dance, film, music, spoken word, and theater.. Please join us for #GivingTuesday to help raise the fund to support this amazing festival!   Donate:  http://www.razoo.com/story/Atlas-Intersections-Festival

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