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ballroom dance!
with Judi Swartz and Janet Reed
make it a date night...
Fridays, February 10, 17 & 24
Basic dances: Fox Trot, Swing, Polka and Latin
$20/class/couple or pay for all 3 and save: $50
Download your enrollment form!
email or call 463-2983 for more information.

6-week classes begin Tuesday, February 14th,
& Wednesday, February 15th
New students can enroll! - Six weeks for $35
Students currently in these classes need to re-enroll.
(If you paid the $20 enrollment fee for the 2011-12 school year, you do not need to pay it again)
Kindergym Tuesdays 5:15-5:45
  Wednesdays 4:00-4:30
Creative Movement Wednesdays 5:45-6:15
Download your enrollment form!
email or call 463-2983 for more information.

Hayley Hamlin Photography
It’s back… Hayley Hamlin Photography and Academy of Performing Arts presents the 2012 "Dance Art" calendar. This is a 13 month calendar filled with beautiful APA dancers and inspirational dance quotes or sayings. This year $5.00 of your purchase will go towards the Chicago trip for Company Dancers. A sample of the calendar in the dance studio now. For pricing or ordering info, email Hayley at hayleyjhamlin@hotmail.com

Studio News
Following the Summer Dance Fest, Kathy attended a portion of Chicago Human Rhythm Project World Rhythm Festival, indowntown Chicago, on August 6 & 7! She took 2 fabulous classes with "Lady" Diane Walker, a class with Jay Fagan, and also with Mark Yonally. She attended the JUBA! concert on August 6, with a concert full of amazing tap, and unique rhythm work by tap choreographers Ted Louis Levy, Mark Yonally, Derick Grant, Lane Alexander, Billy Siegenfeld of Jump Rhythm Jazz Project , Martin "Tre" Dumas, Julie Cartier, Randy Skinner, and Diane Walker, plus some wonderful student performers.

APA in the news...
:: Check out the Irish Times review of Nic Gareiss' recent Dublin performance - congratulations Nic!
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more articles about APA...
:: Gratiot County Herald article on APA's Performance for the Schools
:: The Morning Sun article on APA's National Dance Day Event
:: The Morning Sun article on APA's Summer DanceFest
:: APA receives grant! Read all about it...
:: The Morning Sun article on the Hillcrest Fine Arts Day
:: The Morning Sun article on the Master Class
with Liz Joynt Sandberg
:: The Boston Herald review of the Christmas Celtic Sojourn,
with Nic Gareiss - they liked it!
:: Gratiot County Herald's article about APA's participation in Alma's Come Home for Christmas celebration
:: Read the Morning Sun's 10 Questions: A Love for Dance
:: The Morning Sun story about our dancers in the Nutcracker, presented by the Midland Symphony Orchestra with the Grand Rapids Ballet Company.
:: Gratiot County Herald covers APA's Celebrate for the Schools performances at Alma's Hillcrest and Luce Road schools.
:: Gratiot County Herald prints a wonderful article about FPACo II doing Peter & the Wolf this past spring and summer - and "one more time" at upcoming Lucky MacDuck Day!
:: Gratiot County Herald's coverage of APA's open house 2009 and Multicultural Day.
:: The Morning Sun's preview coverage of APA's Peter and the Wolf performance at Lucky MacDuck.

calling all alums!

With APA now in it's 18th year, we're continuing to gather material for where are they now? which features current information on past APA alumni. We hope it will be a way for you to keep in touch with one another and with APA. If you would like to participate, please download the information form and either email it back, or mail it to:
Academy of Performing Arts
P.O. Box 263
Alma, MI 48801

We love hearing from you!


 

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