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An Open Letter to Dance Community Leaders
This is a letter from Kelly C. Porter, she is a dancer, DJ and dance historian in Seattle, WA. She is the creator of the Voices of the Jazz Era Ballroom Project in which she is collecting the oral history of dancers before they are gone from us. Greetings Friends, Colleagues and Mentors, By now some ...
Why Local Classes Are Important
Local classes are the lifeblood of any dance community. Workshops, camps, and competitions are merely fleeting nodes that connect a much larger network of disparate nodes; they are the glimmer that fascinates us but lack greater substance. Local classes are the breeding grounds for new dancers, they foster the initial relationship people will have with the art ...