A wonderful day! The Festival Dancers worked so well at learning the two dances they will perform and also beginning to explore Pioneer Park, the site for their site specific works. Some questions have come up because the article in the Mountain View Voice printed that the Festival Concert would be in the park. Nope, it’s in the Masonic Center. Just that one adventurous piece, the Festival Dancers own works, will be in the park which is adjacent to the Masonic Center. Today, Michelle Le and Miranda Chatfield from the Mtn. View Voice came to photograph the dancers. Very exciting!
International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley Opens Tomorrow
After spending 51 weeks thinking about it, planning for it, making phone calls, sending emails, staying awake wondering what to do next, the second season of the International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley begins tomorrow morning. I can’t believe it. I’ve spent so much time trying to get the word out about the Festival, now I wonder what it will be like to be in the first class at 10:30 tomorrow morning. I see ahead to the Festival Concert and realize that we have just Monday-Friday to teach two dances to the Festival Dancers AND to have them ready to perform. Take a deep breath. Here we go.
Mountain View Voice Features Festival
That wonderful newspaper, the Mountain View Voice, has run a terrific advance feature article about the International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley. Thanks to the editor, Andrea Gemmet and to the writer, Miranda Chatfield for recognizing the Festival’s significance for the whole community. Here’s the link: 
http://mv-voice.com/news/2013/08/15/dance-festival-returns-to-mountain-view.
Dance Movie Night
Take a break Tuesday evening, August 20. Come to Dance Movie Night. Show time is 8 p.m. at the Mountain View Masonic Center, 890 Church St., Mountain View. Film ends around 9:30. Featured film will be a great dance classic. Admission: $5 per person. The International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley offers opportunities to dancers and non-dancers to experience the best in dance.
Los Altos Town Crier Features Festival
That great newspaper, the Los Altos Town Crier, has run an advance article about the International Dance Festival – Silicon Valley. Nice picture of Christina Smolen with it. Here’s the link: http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/community/179-social-scenes/45277-
International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley
Here are the artists performing & teaching in the Festival. Don’t miss this opportunity to try something new, tune up your technique–or acquire a technique, expand your creativity, and just have fun dancing. Open to all adult ages and levels of training or lack of it!
Scholarship & Early Bird Festival Deadlines Soon!
It’s time! The deadline for Early Bird registration for the second International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley is July 19th; that’s soon! The deadline to apply for scholarship aid is July 26. The Festival is just one month away. Don’t wait. Send for your scholarship application. Send in your registration. Here’s the contact information: livelyfoundation@sbcglobal.net Here’s the Festival schedule: Aug. 19-23, MWF, contemporary technique at 10:30 a.m.; repertory at 11:40 a.m.; composition/improv at 1:30-2:30//TTh, contemp tech at 9:30; rep at 10:40; comp/improv at 12:30-1:30. FULL DAY OF DANCE, Aug. 24: PILATES, 9 A.M.; CONTEMP, 10:15; TAP, 11:45; POLISH FOLK, 2 -3:15 p.m.; AXIS Dance Co., 3:30-5 p.m. Join us for the Festival’s farewell dinner, right there after the show. Festival Concert: Sunday, August 25, 3 p.m. 890 Church St. Mtn. View. Don’t wait! Sign up! Photos: AXIS Dance Co., Audreyanne Delgado Covarrubias.
AXIS Dance Company in Lively’s Festival
Exciting news for Season II of the International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley.
AXIS Dance Company will teach a workshop class on the Full Day of
Dance, Sat., Aug. 24, and perform in the concert, Sun., Aug. 25. The class is open to everyone, whatever their physical condition. AXIS integrates movement of individuals in wheelchairs or using other physically necessary aides with movements of “able bodied” dancers. They create a beautiful exploration of the mysteries of movement. Don’t miss this great opportunity!
Judith Smith & Sonsheree Giles, AXIS Dance Company, photo: Trib LaPrade
International Dance Festival–Silicon Valley
Time to sign up! Watch wonderful dancers, develop your art, try something new. Remember you love dance.
CONCERTS:
Friday, August 24, 8 p.m. & Sunday, August 26, 2 p.m.
At the Historic Hoover Theater, 1635 Park Avenue, San Jose
Tickets: $15 general; $12 over 65 and 10 years old and young