VOTE FOR HEIDI! HELP US GET A $25,000 GRANT!!

VOTE FOR HEIDI LATSKY DANCE

Heidi Latsky Dance is a Markham – Mark of Distinction Grant finalist – and we want to WIN

For more information OR TO VOTE please visit www.markhammarkofdistinction.com

All you need is your email and a password to register, then vote away! You can vote EVERY DAY, once a day, until October 3rd. Your login information is only needed the first time you vote.

 

A Grant of $25,000 is available to help fund a great pilot project in partnership with the Aaron Academy affording disabled children the opportunity to perform for and integrate with all schools in the New York City area.

 

WE NEED YOUR VOTES, SO PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

Poem by Disability Activist Cheryl Marie Wade

I Am Not One Of The

By Cheryl Marie Wade

I am not one of the physically challenged-
I’m a sock in the eye with gnarled fist
I’m a French kiss with cleft tongue
I’m orthopedic shoes sewn on a last of your fears
I am not one of the differently abled-
I’m an epitaph for a million imperfect babies left untreated
I’m an ikon carved from bones in a mass grave at Tiergarten, Germany
I’m withered legs hidden with a blanket
I am not one of the able disabled-
I’m a black panther with green eyes and scars like a picket fence
I’m pink lace panties teasing a stub of milk white thigh
I’m the Evil Eye
I’m the first cell divided
I’m mud that talks
I’m Eve I’m Kali
I’m The Mountain That Never Moves
I’ve been forever I’ll be here forever
I’m the Gimp
I’m the Cripple
I’m the Crazy Lady
I’m The Woman With Juice

New Heidi Latsky Dance Office

HLD extends our deepest gratitude to Dennis  Mykytyn for providing us with a new office space in the Silk Building. Check out the photos of our new office below!

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HLD Dancer George Gallego in the Daily News

In June 2011 HLD dancer George Gallego brought his talents to the stage as he performed in the piece “IF” at the La MaMa Moves Dance Festival. During “IF”, Gallego whirled and spun between the dancers with a surge of  dynamic energy that electrified the work.

Gallego brings this powerful  energy to sports as well. As a respected Paratriathlete, he was recently written up in the Daily News for his participation in the New York City Triathlon. Within the article Gallego is praised for his perseverance and positivity.

Click here to read the Daily News article about HLD dancer George Gallego

Want to see more Heidi Latsky Dance Images?

Take a peek at  these captivating photos of HLD’s work!

Click here to view the HLD gallery

Heidi Latsky Motivates Summer Stages Dance Students

The past week Heidi Latsky staged her original work ‘IF’ on students from Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy. According to Richard Colton, cofounder of Summer Stages Dance, “Heidi gave our students an invaluable experience; she galvanized them into an expressive instrument, and one remarkably intense….[teaching] them the incomparable power of the ensemble in dance, how the full individual extending to others… can create something greater than the self”. Colton continues that “Heidi’s own performing and dancing seems an ongoing exploration of getting to the essentials, looking at the real world stripped bare, an exhausting task, but the true artist’s task.  I think young dancers intuitively feel this about Heidi and follow her light.” Congratulations to Heidi on her successful and impressionable visit to Summer Stages!

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Miss the ICA performance?

Not to worry! Watch the videos of Heidi and Freeze performing.

Freeze performing Grace

Heidi performing an excerpt from GIMP

Check out this great review from Boston!

Read a review of Heidi and Freeze in Boston performing at the ICA!

Boston Preview

Check out this preview that just came out for the ICA shows this week.

Read it now here.