Well Wishes for Spring Performance Program
How time flies! We are quickly approaching the presentation of our Spring Performance. Your children have been working so hard on their performances and we are very appreciative of all their efforts. We are so very proud of them and we're sure you are too! We would like to invite you to send well wishes to your "shining stars" in this year's Spring Performance Program.
Here's how it works: Each message is $5.00. If you would like to include a digital photo of your child with your message it is an additional $5.00. All photos must be emailed to princetondance@verizon.comEXAMPLE: Dear Jeanne,
You will always be our shining star. Have fun today and dance from your heart.
Love always,
Mom, Dad, Robbie & Lizzy
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Tap Teacher
Karen Callaway Williams is collecting used tap and jazz
shoes on an on going basis.
If your child has outgrown his/her tap
and/or jazz shoes or you have tap or jazz shoes that you want to get
out of your house, please feel free to share them. (any size) They are
greatly appreciated.
Please drop off at the PDT Studio.
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For Sale - Bunk Beds
LIKE NEW! Ikea solid wood bunkbeds with upgraded Sultan mattresses. Very sturdy and stable. Can be separated into 2 twin size beds. Great for children, guest room, shore house, etc.
$500 includes mattresses.
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Contact:
Pamela
Mingle at 609-203-0376 or pmingle1@gmail.com
www.balletburn.com
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Contact Us!
Please email Cyndi Chervenyak with any news, events or articles that you would like to share with the Rockingham Row community. All submissions are subject to review and may be edited. We look forward to hearing from you! Email us at:
Princeton Dance and Theater Studio
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Greetings!
It's SHOWTIME! Coming up May 7th at 7:00 pm and May 8th at 1:00 pm is DanceVision's annual spring performance of Risa Kaplowitz's The Secret Garden. A month later, the
annual and much anticipated PDT Spring Performance will take place on June 6th at 3PM. This is when all of the PDT students get to show off all that they have learned all
year. The show is always entertaining and includes fantastic performances in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, modern, ballroom, salsa and flamenco. Both performances will take place at the Performing Arts Center at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South.
As always, the performances would
not be possible without our wonderful parents' involvement. Thank you to
all who have volunteered to help make these performances possible. We are immensely proud of our dancers and look forward to seeing you at the shows!
Best wishes,
Risa Kaplowitz and Susan Jaffe
Co-Directors
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PDT's Spring Performance, Sunday June 6th 3:00 pm
PDT's 7th Annual Spring Performance will be held at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South located at 346 Clarksville Road, Princeton Junction.
Tickets are now on sale in the PDT office, $10 per person or $5 for Act II only. Save the date for outstanding performances by our students in ballet, jazz, tap, ballroom, hip hop, and modern dance.
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PDT Hosts Several Guest Instructors
Igal Perry was at PDT for a master class on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Israeli born Igal Perry is Founder and Artistic Director of Peridance Center in New York City.
Lenore Pavlakos Morales taught at PDT on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. She continues to teach at PDT on Monday mornings 9:45-11:15 for open ballet. Ms Morales, a Ballet Mistress and Master Ballet Teacher is a former principal dancer in Dance Theater of Harlem.
Pamela Levy-Arauz taught several levels this past month at PDT. She currently is a Masters Degree Candidate in the NYU/ABT Ballet
pedagogy program. She danced as a soloist with Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance
for seven years and has performed with Imago Dance Theatre, Don Redlich
Dance Company, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
Nora Elizabeth Cotter guest taught during March at PDT. Nora is certified in the ABT Ballet Pedagogy Concentration. She
graduated from The North Carolina School of the Arts High School with a
concentration in Ballet and as a North Carolina Regents Scholar.
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New Open Classes at PDT
The Directors wish to acknowledge Ilana Suprin's significant
contributions to PDT and wish her all of the best in the future.
Please check out our new Open Classes:
Lenore Palakos Morales, former principal dancer at Dance Theater of Harlem, teaches Open Ballet on Mondays 9:45-11:15.
Meagan Woods, Director of Meagan Woods and Company, teaches Open Modern on Tuesdays 9:30-11:00.
Risa Kaplowitz, Co-Director of PDT and DanceVision, teaches Open Ballet followed by Variations class on Wednesdays, 9:30-11:00. The current variation being taught is Esmerelda.
All open classes are $16 for single or $150 for a ten-class card. There is currently no charge for variations class.
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The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden, choreographed by PDT and DanceVision Co-Director, Risa Kaplowitz, will take place on Saturday May 8th at 7:00 pm and Sunday May 9th at 1:00 pm at the Performing Arts Center at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South. What a perfect way to spend Mothers Day!
Please go to the DanceVision website www.dancevisionnj.org to purchase tickets. $20 Adult and $15 Child/Senior in advance and $25 Adult and $20 Child/Senior at the door. Tickets may also be purchased at Princeton Dance and Theater Studio.
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DanceFest 2010!
 
 
Photos by Melissa Ackerman
On Sunday APRIL 17th, DanceVision's carnival of dance events for the entire family to kick off National Dance Week was enjoyed by all!
Local families and Home Front's "Triumphant Teens" came out to dance. PDT instructors, Henri Velandia and Tom McKie taught salsa and hip hop respectively. Performances included excerpts from Risa Kaplowitz's The Secret Garden and a salsa performance by Henri and his sister, Claudia. The next evening, Henri and Claudia won 2nd place in the Open Division of the Salsa Competition at Drexel University.
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Director Writes a Book
 Co-director, Risa
Kaplowitz, has written a young children's version of The Secret
Garden, based on the famous book by
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The book will be read at the Princeton
Public Library on Saturday May 1st at 11:00 am. Along with
the book reading, excerpts from the ballet will be performed. The book,
which uses Erin Baiano's beautiful photographs from performance, may be
purchased at Blurb.com |
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