For my senior Thesis, I wanted to combine my choreographic and artistic work with my strong belief in giving back to my community. Finding a way to bridge my creative projects to the world outside Hollins became my challenge. My work in the summer with children at Apple ridge Farm became an important inspiration that helped to shape the project. I wanted to reconnect with the children and extend my project by providing a Saturday Children’s Dance Workshop.

During the Workshop’s, along with fellow Hollins students, we offered classes throughout the fall and spring for kids of different ages and levels, teaching various styles and techniques. We worked together to shape a spring concert as a showcase. A great deal of work and shared responsibility went on behind the scenes which including transporting the children to and from their homes to classes and rehearsals. It was a tremendous challenge. I would like to thank Symphoni, Naomi, Harmony, Boochi, and Emily…for without their consistent help this project would never have made it!