Aliyah Ballerina

Are you look­ing for some­thing fun and free to do in San Diego this weekend?

Well…why not drive down to the beau­ti­ful Bal­boa Park in San Diego for the 13th Annual Cel­e­brate Dance Fes­ti­val founded, pro­duced and hosted by Eveoke Dance The­atre.

LaDiego will be open­ing the fes­ti­val on Fri­day, August 21st with 3 works includ­ing a new piece titled: Adren­a­line. LaDiego, has par­tic­i­pated in CDF since 2004 since the com­pany was 1st established.

When: August 21–23, 2009

Where: At the Casa Del Prado The­atre in Bal­boa Park

Fri­day — 6pm Open­ing Recep­tion & Per­for­mances begin at 7pm to 10pm
Sat­ur­day –11am to 10pm
Sun­day –11am to 9pm

For Artist info, go to: http://www.eveoke.org/cdf/artists.htm
For sched­ule info, go to: http://www.eveoke.org/cdf/documents/CDF09ScheduleWeb.pdf

More info on Cel­e­brate Dance Fes­ti­val: Cel­e­brate Dance Fes­ti­val pro­motes the regional dance com­mu­nity to res­i­dents and tourists of San Diego by pre­sent­ing per­for­mances, classes and work­shops in a wide range of styles, eth­nic back­grounds and abil­i­ties, at no charge to the pub­lic, in an acces­si­ble cen­ter for arts and cul­ture, Bal­boa Park.

Mis­sion: Cel­e­brate Dance Fes­ti­val seeks to enrich the cul­tural her­itage of our region and pro­mote San Diego as a cul­tural destination.

A Brief His­tory: Eveoke Dance The­atre founded the annual, free Cel­e­brate Dance Fes­ti­val in 1996 with sup­port from Bal­boa Park. Eveoke has used many dif­fer­ent loca­tions through­out the park, while the 600-seat Casa del Prado The­atre and the out­door Prado Stage have con­tin­ued to be the anchor attrac­tions for many fes­ti­val events. Street per­form­ers, photo exhibits, dance classes, work­shops and lec­tures have aug­mented more than 75 per­for­mances dur­ing the 4th week­end of August each year.

This arti­cle was orig­i­nally posted on my Tum­blr Blog ~ Click here to read.

I have absolutely no words. If you haven’t seen already, you will be amazed. ♥

So every­one who knows me knows that I love Michael Jack­son and I strongly believe that Smooth Crim­i­nal is either #1 or #2 for best chore­og­ra­phy ever­rrr. I go back and for­ward between that and Thriller. MJ has always admired Fred Astaire and its not hard to see why, He was fab­u­lous! Not to men­tion the ‘ogra­phy is still really hot. But any­ways, I thought I’d share a cute mashup the BF sent me from YouTube.

If your hav­ing trou­ble, watch here: Fred Astaire in Smooth Criminal

Hope you enjoy! Ciao♥

Last year, I co-directed TDC’s “A Nut­cracker Revis­ited”. This year, I will be direct­ing. Weeeee! I’m super excited and ready for the chal­lenge. This is hap­pen­ing right after the heels of our lat­est pro­duc­tion called “Redemp­tion of the Dark Heart”.

Here are some fab­u­lous pho­tos taken from behind the scenes and between the wings of lasts years Nutcracker.

Hope you enjoy.♥

WooHoo! The Dance Conservatory’s new site is up and run­ning. Check it out. There is loads of info there and more com­ing soon. We’ll be adding pho­tos fro our recent photo soot 2 weeks ago.

Don’t for­get to look for our com­mer­cial on Fox Chan­nel 5, San Diego. It runs dur­ing So you Think You Can Dance.