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just plain fun:
:: These Jump Rhythm Jazz Project webisodes are really cool - you might like them too...
:: Nic Gareiss, Tap & Clogging instructor at APA. He's awesome!
:: These are all of Anaheim Ballet - a beautiful, very young company. Watch their TURNS! and leaps, and, well, everything!
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more fun...
:: Many of us have watched the Swan Lake ballet on TV, but never like the Chinese State Circus does it. The principal dancer is unbelievable.
:: This piece from So You Think You Can Dance is amazing, moving, technically incredible, artisically touching, and the judge's reactions are also very emotional. Melissa & Ade in Tyce Diorio's choreography.
Tyce Diorio Breast Cancer Piece
:: Dancin' the Boogie - Silvan Zingg
Will & Maéva will give a Dance Workshop at the International Boogie Woogie Festival in Lugano, Switzerland in April 2009
:: Have you seen this one in Central Station, Antwerp, Belgium? This is awesome.
:: These boys are awesome! The 3 boys playing Billy on Broadway as "Billy Elliot"!
:: Eleanor Powell was one of the classiest female tappers ever! And Fred Astaire isn't bad either!
:: Bob Hope & James Cagney - who knew Hope was such a strong hoofer!?
:: A film project by Sean Francis, Racing Banjos
:: A music video by Jason Whitmore filmed at the APA studio, Adore
:: This incredible floor gymnast does amazing things with a ball during her routine...
   
go see:
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alma area links:
:: Francis Academy of Performing Arts is proud to be
a member of the Greater Gratiot Chamber of Commerce.
:: Gratiot County Players Community Theatre
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dancers/studios:
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Liz Joynt Sandberg is the artistic director for think/dance collective.
www.myspace.com/thinkdancecollective

:: Mid-Michigan Highland Dancers
Christie Freestone, Director
Contact Kay Starkweather at (989) 681-5162 for more information.
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more dancers and studios...
:: Emily Berry, Professor of Dance at Queensborough Community College and Artistic Director of B3W, for improvisation and afro-cuban,
:: Barbara Phillips is currently artistic director of R.P.M. (Rhythm and Percussion in Motion) Youth Tap Ensemble, Artistic Producing Director of Third Coast Rhythm Project, and serves on the Executive Board of the San Antonio Dance Umbrella.
:: Michelle Lucchesi is a Limited Licenced Psychologist in our community.
www.whollyhuman.com
:: Surf Scape Dance co-director Kristin (Bender) Polizzi is an alumna of Alma College Dance Department and Linda Lee Dance Studio, where she studied with Kathy Francis as a high school senior and through her four years at Alma College.
Visit her web site to view this awesome company!
:: Kathy Francis has studied with Lane Alexander, founder of Chicago Human Rhythm Project, and she and APA students have attended various tap workshops and festivals hosted by CHRP.
www.chicagotap.org
:: Kathy Francis is an alum of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Lou Conte Dance Studio. HSDC performance dates and LCDS class schedules are both available at www.hubbardstreetdance.com
:: Check out fabulous ballet concert opportunities with the Grand Rapids Ballet Company at www.grballet.com and the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago www.joffrey.com
   
   


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