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DwC Teaching Artist Spotlight: Miss Itza Riedas

3 Jul 2018

We are excited to announce our Summer DwC Teaching Artist Spotlight: Miss Itza Riedas! Miss Itza has been bringing a great amount of joy and energy to her students at Dawes Elementary, as well as many other schools, for over 4 years. See below for her perspective on her residency at Dawes! I [...]

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Catalyst Circle Rock Youth Social Dancers: Brian and Vonn

3 Jul 2018

Today we are excited to highlight two more of our youth social dancers from Catalyst Circle Rock. Meet Brian and Vonn, two students who spent the past school year studying ballroom, Latin and swing dance. Check out their interview below! Brian- Youth Social Dancer What do you like about [...]

Fourth Graders Reflect on Dance in School

21 May 2018

In this post, we introduce you to a group of 4th graders at Chicago’s Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy who took the Dancing with Class core program journey, spending 10 weeks learning different styles of partner dance and then traveling to a Dance-Off event for a friendly competition with [...]

Jewel Makes Her Choreographic Debut

15 May 2018

Jewel Baker is a high school sophomore who we first met when she was a fifth grader at Poe Classical School. She represented Poe at one of our city-wide Dance-Off events and was nominated to join our scholarship program, the DwC All-Stars. Since then, she has been one of our most reliable and [...]

Students Take the Spotlight at Edwards Elementary

14 Mar 2018

Richard Edwards Elementary is a Dual Language Fine and Performing Arts IB School that Dancing with Class has had the pleasure of partnering with for many years. It’s a right of passage for all 5th graders at Edwards to spend 10 weeks learning ballroom dance. In addition to sending a team of [...]

Catalyst Circle Rock Ballroom Dancers: Camya and Corey

18 Dec 2017

Dancing with Class decided to follow one of our amazing partners, Catalyst Circle Rock, for the 2017/18 school year. Catalyst is a huge supporter of social dance and we wanted to highlight the star dancers in their DwC program. First up we celebrate Camya and Corey! Camya – 6th [...]

Miss Denita talks about what it means to teach the DwC All-Stars

13 Dec 2017

Denita Inez, the Director of Outreach, talks below about what it means lead the DwC All-Stars. “I joined Dancing With Class 7 years ago. I have always wanted to work with an organization that taught dance to young people because I knew the power of social dance. The past years of working [...]

Find out what being a DwC All-Star means to a CPS student!

7 Dec 2017

Hello my name is Eli, (pictured with her is fellow All-Star Elliot) and this is my second year in the Dancing with Class All-Stars program. Being an All-Star really changed my summer because before my summers were boring. If we didn’t go out with the family, I didn’t go out at all. [...]

DwC Teaching Artist Spotlight: Chris Van Houten

17 Nov 2017

Our November DwC Teaching Artist Spotlight is……Chris Van Houten! We asked him why he teaches social dance in public schools: “I am so proud to be a part of Dancing With Class! I strive to make dance class a bright spot in my students’ day, and I’ve seen our program spur [...]

Spreading Peace & Joy Through Dance

25 Oct 2017

Nerdy Media joined us at Poe School in the Pullman neighborhood to dance for peace as part of our “Dancemakers are Peacemakers” workshop series. In this video, you can see some highlights from the program and hear what some of the student participants had to say about it. [...]