Flamenco Rosario kicks off Flamenco Festival

Flamenco Rosario, who will be touring with Made in BC in 2012/13, is hosting the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival until October 2nd.  The Festival kicked off yesterday with a community conference....  go see some Flamenco if you can!

Happy Pride Salt Spring!

 

Salt Spring's Lobby Dancers hit the Pride Parade this weekend! Photo by Megan Manning

Kitimat rocks out on the Dance Art front, again

Anna- Marie Carstens writes:
It is almost the end of the summer and time to look back at the events of the past year. This year we had another very successful Dance Impressions Exhibit in Kitimat. The art exhibit is the culmination of the annual International Dance Day dance classes in local elementary schools, and the subsequent art classes with he same students who participated in the dance classes. Our very talented instructors this year were once again Leah Correia (dance) and Eileen Hutson (art). We are very fortunate to have these wonderful ladies to bring out the best in our students.

The dance and art classes are very popular with local teachers who incorporate it into their Fine Arts curriculum. Leah was challenged by the size of classes, because teachers combined classes to let as many students as possible participate. It is clear that one day of classes is not enough – we may have to expand this event or present them as mass dance classes.

The dance classes were made possible by funding from Made in BC and the art classes were sponsored by Kitimat Arts For Youth, a community non-profit organization. It is great to have positive community partners to make initiatives such as Dance Impressions possible. This year the exhibit formed part of the first ever Kitimat Arts Festival which ran from June 4th through 13th.
Dance Impressions was once again a great success and we look forward to next year’s event!