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♫ music, sounds of tapping
So, I decided to plan this dance festival, and
it started off as kind of a small project but it became pretty big.
♫ music, tapping
I am a KEY student, and my project is based around
creating a dance community and strengthening
the dance community that already exists.
So there's a wealth of dance in the community, with a lot of professionals
who live in and work in Rochester,
and a bunch of students at the University of Rochester and at local universities.
There are 24 dance classes being offered.
So we have styles like hip hop, ballet, tap, jazz...
♫ ...four, five, six, seven, eight...
modern, Jamaican, West African, Middle Eastern...
♫ ...and left, and right...
tai chi, contact improv, capoeira...
Capoeira is a soft-fist martial art, whereas
tae kwon do and karate would be hard fist martial arts.
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I like the fact that it defies the category of dance
and martial art, and really encompasses both
but also is full of ritual and tradition.
It's very beautiful.
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I'm bringing in a ton of great teachers to teach those classes.
Yeah, I'm going to definitely stay for the classes
next with Bill Evans,
and at least observe, because he's a great
master teacher that I've never met.
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Sticking around as long as I can.
I've been coming every time I could
fit in a class within my work schedule,
I've been popping back and forth because it's
only fifteen dollars for unlimited classes.
So I'm gonna do as much as I can.
Keep in time with your head back!
♫ music
♫ five, six, seven, go, right, left, right, left, hop
and kick, again right, left, right, left
go, right, left, right, left, hop
[ laughter, whooping ]
There are a lot of benefits that come with dance.
It might not exactly manifest
in these five days, that's a really short time,
but I hope it will start the buzz about dance,
there's a lot going on and there's a lot of people who don't know that
there's anything going on in dance at U of R or in the community
And I hope that people start hearing about it
and it kind of starts something so
it can continue in the future and be really successful, and
continue to bring people together through dance.
♫ I'll let you know when you can stop.
This is the University of Rochester.