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The 7th annual inspireDANCE Festival takes place January 25\u201330.<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you go\u2026<\/h3>\n

Advance tickets through Jan. 25: $18, all-inclusive, available at the Common Market in Wilson Commons.<\/p>\n

At the door: $25, all-inclusive.<\/p>\n

Dance Heginbotham performance only: $10 students; $15 general public.<\/p>\n

inspireJAM only: $5 to view; $10 to battle or view and take workshops.<\/p>\n

Swing Dance Stomp only: $5 students, $10 general public.<\/p>\n

The student dance kickoff concert is free.<\/p>\n

For ticket and registration inquiries, or more information, call (585) 273-5150 or email m.p.smith@rochester.edu, or visit the inspireDANCE homepage<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Program of Dance and Movement kicks off the new year with its seventh annual inspireDANCE Festival. The festival, which begins Wednesday, January 25, and takes place over six days, will feature more than 30 master classes, workshops, and performances.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s headliner is Dance Heginbotham, a rising contemporary dance company from New York City. The troupe has performed at such celebrated venues as the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has shared the stage with such music icons as Shara Worden, Brooklyn Rider, and Alarm Will Sound, a 20-piece chamber orchestra ensemble that originated at the Eastman School of Music. The company, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, will premiere a new work on Friday, January 27, at 8 p.m. at the River Campus\u2019s Spurrier Dance Studio. Also on the bill is a work titled The Fandango<\/em>, which will be accompanied by live music played by Eastman School students.<\/p>\n

\u201cDance, by its nature, which must be performed by human beings, is always vital, and best experienced three-dimensionally, live,\u201d says John Heginbotham, founder of the company, underscoring the importance of the art form. \u201cNo matter what sort of technology, or what technological advances we have, dance will always maintain this form, and that can be enjoyed by people no matter what era we\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Festival participants will have the opportunity to sample diverse offerings in dance instruction at the University, from West African, Middle Eastern, and Irish dance forms, to contemporary ballet and tap dance. Missy Pfohl Smith, director of the Program of Dance and Movement and the festival organizer, sees the event as an expressive, as well as an educational, opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn these social and political times, certainly it is important to have introspection and serious conversation,\u201d she says. \u201cBut we also must take the time to exuberantly celebrate difference and cultural diversity. What better way to do this than through dance?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe buzz and energy of a million classes going on at once is really exciting,\u201d says Anne Harris Wilcox, a senior lecturer in dance at Rochester who will instruct on dance anatomy and kinesiology at the festival. \u201cIt\u2019s phenomenal \u2013 there is something for your die hard dance enthusiasts to your new comers to dance,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

A new element in this year\u2019s festival is a \u201cSwing Dance Stomp\u201d to live music by the Roc City Jitterbugs. Attendees will be able to take a swing dance lesson prior to the event.<\/p>\n

Other highlights include the annual inspireJAM, an all-style dance battle where performers of any dance form can enter to compete with some of the best \u201cbboys\u201d and \u201cbgirls\u201d in the region, which will take place Sunday, January 29. Competitors from Rochester as well as hip-hop dancers from Buffalo, Ithaca, and Toronto, will compete for a cash prize, starting at 2 p.m. in the May Room, Wilson Commons.<\/p>\n

For a complete schedule of events, visit\u00a0 http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/dan\/assets\/pdf\/inspireDANCE-schedule2017.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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About the Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n

The inspireDANCE Festival\u00a0is the brainchild of Arielle Friedlander \u201910, who was a participant in Rochester\u2019s KEY (Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year) program, which provides students with an additional, fifth undergraduate year to carry out an entrepreneurial business venture.<\/p>\n

She shared a simple idea with Program of Dance and Movement director Missy Pfohl Smith: to find a way to connect the more than 600 students involved in dance and movement groups and classes at the University of Rochester with each other, with the Program of Dance and Movement, and with the larger Rochester-area dance community.<\/p>\n

Working together, Friedlander and the Program launched the inaugural inspireDANCE Festival in January 2010.<\/p>\n

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