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WANTED: ROOM TO DANCE

Clare Cunningham’s North Vancouver ballet school seeks space to. expand |

NORTH VANCOUVER’S
Clare Cunningham Dance
Foundation (CCFD) is look-
ing for a new home.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

The move from its current loca-
tion within the intimate confines of
the Anne MacDonald Hall resuits
from a combination of the foun-
dation’s own rapid expansion and
a gentle push from its Presentation
House landlords.

Since taking up residence in the
hall in September, 1984, Cunn-
ingham’s dance foundation has
gone from offering regular night
dance and exercise classes for the
aerobically overdosed, to
establishing a Clare Cunningham
Youth Company, a_ performing
apprenticeship program and pro-
fessional ballet classes.

“The expansion since fast fall
has been phenomenai,’’ says
CCFD administrative director
Gayle Bertrand.

Both the. CCFD’s youth com-

pany.,and_ its \ ballet corp have.
begun. ‘to: ‘pirouette their way : to. -

recognition ‘within. and beyond. :
local dance circles: . ;

The -!1-member youth company
has’ won prestigious Expo 86 per-

4 formance dates at the B.C. Pavil-

ion, the first of which will be April
26. ,

Subsequent pavilion perfor-
mances will be on May 4 and 7 and
at the closing ceremonies for: the

pavilion’s Pacific Regional: week. .

on May Ww
EXPO SHOWCASE

- our: ‘young people.and the capabili- :
tiesand performing t talents they
; have,’ Bertrand says.

* speak to teachers

2725 St. Christo

OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, May 8, from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
* see work by the students

* find out more about this unique alternative
- (our next Open House is on Monday, June 2
from 7:30-9:30 p.m.)

PUBLIC LECTURE

Tuesday, May 13, at 8:00 p.m.
* Dr. Werner Glas, founder and director of the
Waldorf Institute of Mercy College in Detroit,
will speak on the subject:
_. “Stages of Inner and Outer Growth, and the
-., - Development of Values.”
* Admission to both events. is free.

~The Vancouver Waldorf School 985-7435
hers Road, North Van.

Members of CCFD’s profes-
sional ballet classes, meanwhile,
will be featured in two spring per-
formances of newly choreographed
material at Vancouver’s Firehall
Theatre as part of that theatre's
Flip Side series.

While concentrating on dance, |

the performance apprenticeship
program developed by Cunn-
ingham is designed to improve the
Stage presence and performance
skills of young people involved in a
wide range of the performing arts.

“‘Basically, what we are develop-
ing is comfort of movement,” Ber-
trand says, ‘‘because no matter
what area of performing you might
have ambitions for, movement and
stage presence is vital."*

in addition to CCFD’s blooming
success, the move from Anne
MacDonald Hall results from the
Presentation House’s plans to
establish a professional theatre
school in the hall.

With five instructors and Cunn-
ingham herself, the foundation,
incorporated’ in February, 1985,
also offers a wide range of ballet,
jazz and stretch programs that of.
fer a more physically demanding .

‘and ultimately more satisfying
‘valternative to aerobics” to /whip

body and soul into shape.
DANCE FIT

Trained in the Martha Graham
method of dance, Cunningham
says dance is’ one of the best
‘overall ways to get physically fit.

The Martha Graham method,

“she says, focuses on kinesotherapy,

which. emphasizes careful controll-
“ed physical alignment over the

*gaucous bourice of aerobics. -

-- Asa result,-Cunningham says a
lot of. her students are medical
referrals whose injuries require the
. subtlety of dance exercises. :

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