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DanceVision successfully completed its first pilot program of D.A.N.C.E. (Dance As a Necessary Component of Education) in February 2006 at Montgomery Township’s Lower Middle School with a two-week dance program called Water Dance based on poetry from a book of the same name. In April 2008, D.A.N.C.E. completed a similar program at Millstone River School thanks to a generous grant from the West Windsor Plainsboro Education Foundation. The residencies help schools meet the New Jersey Department of Education ("NJDOE") Core Curriculum Standards and introduce different learning modalities.
DanceVision’s Youth Ensemble made its debut in December 2007 with a production of Susan Jaffe’s The Nutcracker. The performances highlighted some of the region’s most talented young dancers. The Youth Ensemble went on to perform excerpts of the ballet at the Delaware Township School in an informative lecture demonstration, Multicultural Nutcracker, written and narrated by Marie Alonzo Snyder.
The two founding trustees of DanceVision have a great deal of dancing, teaching and outreach experience. Susan Jaffe is a world renowned, former principal dancer with American Ballet Theater and Risa Kaplowitz, a former principal dancer with the Dayton Ballet and Manhattan Ballet.
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