Imaginative dance program for Exeter School District sixth-graders is definitely not square
By Erin Negley, Reading Eagle
VideoStretch tall like a tree, drop low like a rock and twist like a pretzel.
Kick, melt, spin. Again.
The dancers go faster and faster to the music until parents and children alike are grinning and struggling to keep up.
Now the parents at Monday night’s dance class at Exeter School District’s Reiffton School knew what dance instructor Ann Marie Mulgrew has been teaching their sixth-graders for the past few months.
Mulgrew, who leads an experimental modern dance company in Philadelphia, has added modern movement exercises to the students’ gym classes and spent more time with a smaller group of students. The core group of 31 sixth-graders will end the dance project in a few weeks with a performance they choreographed themselves.
“We’re looking at it almost like a work of art and how it relates to dance, like lines, form, shapes, posture,” Mulgrew said.
Steven is currently the CEO of Delaware Valley on Line, one of the first regional Internet Service Provides that now focuses on business-class web hosting, design, and internet marketing. He is president and founder of Rainbow Promotions Inc., a special events and entertainment agency established in the late 70’s, that services corporate and retail accounts both locally and nationally.
Steven is the Founder of PhiladelphiaDANCE.org,the largest web presence and resource for the dance community in the greater Philadelphia region, and the Founder and Editor of The Dance Journal. His involvement in the dance community extends to being Director of Graffito Works, an international platform for dancers and performing artists to create site-specific work and to make it readily accessible to the public.
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