


Thank you Loren, we appreciate all of your hard work! She was selected as DanceATL’s Volunteer of the Month for July. Loren McFalls is a volunteer with both our Community and Production committees.

Julie Galle Baggenstoss, part of the Writing Committee, was named DanceATL’s first Volunteer of the Month in May. Jacque’s team won the adjudicator’s award as well as the audience choice award. Jacque Pritz and Tamara Irving participated in the ALMA workshop and presented their creative placemaking projects. She looks forward to networking with more Atlanta artists of all mediums in hopes of future collaborative efforts. Hannah Myers has recently created a new website featuring her portfolio of past and present works. He will also develop curriculum and work as the program coordinator for the hip-hop dance track while producing scholarship and creative work! He is now teaching hip-hop dance forms with an emphasis on the socio-cultural and historic context to the dances as Afro-diasporic performative traditions. Tsaimbwom Akuchu accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of dance at California State University, Long Beach. They did amazing work on the Turning Point, member management, Remembrance In Memoriam, and Promenade. Jacob Lavoie is an avid DanceATL and community volunteer who completed his wildly successful show So long, Farewell, Goodbye. Jacob moved to New Hampshire this summer and has continued his artistry.ĭanceATL welcomed Ansley Carr, Grace Getsinger, Katie Watkins, and Gabrielle Stearns to the intern team this summer. She also moved to Denver for graduate school at CU Boulder! Jessica Bertram recently premiered Our Hair Feels Like Flower Petals with multiple sold out shows. She has moved away from Atlanta to pursue graduate school in New York City. Be sure to check out an in-depth article about her here.Ĭatherine Messina is the creator of Fall for Fall and the Spring for Spring festivals, a teacher for many studios, and a dancer with Kit Modus. She recently relocated to work for Ballet West in Utah. New version for 3 performers will be performed in spring, 2022 as part of Art on the Atlanta Beltline 2021 – 2022.Īngelina Pellini is a dancer and a beloved stage manager for many dance companies in Atlanta. This became a start for expanding this work. On May 15, Bautanzt Here and collaborators Frankie Mulinix (Vandellous), Dima Alekseyev and Katya Kouznetsova, presented a site-specific version of the Hollow Bones, installation and performance piece. Spring interns Rose Sebaugh, Stephanie Weis, and Lane Pigford had a fantastic semester! They helped start the Remembrance In Memoriam, grant toolkit, member management, and assisted in executing the A.M.

Collaborative program with a live audience at the Spring for Spring Dance Festival. Leo Briggs and Frankie Mulinix had the opportunity to share their work from our A.M. They covered press releases, previews, and reviews of many Atlanta dance artists and organizations, including DanceATL!ĭance Hub ATL was chosen among 70 proposals from the Atlanta community to become a resident of the Hambidge Cross-Pollination Art Lab, curated by Hambidge Center in partnership with Rubenstein Partners and Uptown Atlanta with funding from Lubo Fund and Fulton County Arts and Culture.ĭanceATL received its 501(c)(3) status and celebrated our 2nd “birthday” in May of this year.
