Dalton Arts Project Club D 2012 Clothing and More Drive to Benefit Cherokee Estates
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Pictured with items from the 2012 Dalton Arts Project Club D Clothing and More Drive to benefit The Georgia Sheriff’s Home, Cherokee Estates, are Whitfield County’s Sheriff, Scott Chitwood, Cherokee Estate’s Resident Director, Nikita Jordan, and Dalton Dance Company members (front row) Abby Rogers, Taylor Kate Boyett, Katherine Griffin, (back row) Scottie Sandlin, Haley Chapman, Rosalyn Virgo, and Bailey Everett. |
Many Dalton Arts Project Company dancers generously contributed items as well as their time to help sort the many donations made for the Georgia Sheriff’s Home, Cherokee Estates. This year’s collection of new or gently-used 525 tops, 76 pairs of jeans, 37 sweaters, 81 pairs of socks, 85 pairs of pants, 73 pairs of shorts, 49 skirts, 54 dresses, 15 dressy/formal dresses, 23 pairs of new designer formal shoes (generously donated by Donna McCurry of Eva Mae Formals), along with blankets, footwear, sleepwear, swimwear, outerwear, accessories, stuffed animals, room decor, bedding, toiletries, and new underwear will be used to fill the Cherokee Estates clothes closet and help make the residents’ experience there feel more like home.
Cherokee Estates currently houses 12 girls ranging in ages from 14 to 22 years old. Nikita Jordan, Cherokee Estate’s Resident Director, commented, “Wow! There are no words to express how grateful we are to receive ALL the wonderful items from DAP...We are most thankful and blessed.”
The Dalton Arts Project (DAP) is a local non-profit organization committed to performing arts in the northwest Georgia area. Club D is a DAP service club for the dancers in the Dalton Dance company and dancers frequently serve as hands-on volunteers for the many community service ventures of DAP. Participating dancers range in age from 13 to 18 and must complete 20 hours of service as part of their membership. This year’s donated items were sorted and boxed by a team of Dalton Dance Company dancers that included: Taylor Kate Boyett, Haley Chapman, Sarah Kate Coleman, Bailey Everett, Sakura Fujiwara, Katherine Griffin, Bowen Halverson, Danielle Jones, Sarah McIntosh, Anna Nimmons, Chandler Renz, Abby Rogers, Scottie Sandlin, Rosalyn Virgo, and Lindsey Williams. Parent volunteers, Dania Boyett, Faith Everett, and Laura Virgo, coordinated the event. Berrien Long, DAP artistic director, remarked, “Dalton Arts Project is so pleased to be donating to the girls of Cherokee Estates again. Seeing the young ladies from the Dance Theatre helping other young ladies in the community is very rewarding for everyone!”
The positive partnership between these two organizations also includes a summer camp of dance, acting, and art at the Dance Theatre of Dalton studio for the residents of Cherokee Estates. Club D members also donate their time, energy, and enthusiasm to the week long happening. The generous sponsors of the Dalton Arts Project also make it possible to treat the Cherokee Estates residents and staff as special guests for the annual production of “The Nutcracker”. Everyone involved benefits from the worthwhile affiliation between these two organizations.Dalton Dance Company's “Every Picture Tells a Story”
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Sitting: Ashton Wong, Jordan Walker, Emma Elrod, Meg Mitchell, Katie Beth Jenkins. Standing: Georgeanne Mitchell, Jessica Fannin, Audrey Sigmon, Vivian Butler, Mary Chandler Crutchfield, Sheridan Fromm |
Dalton Arts Project presents the Dalton Dance Company in their spring dance concert “Every Picture Tells a Story” Friday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 25 at 2:00 p.m. at the Dalton High School Theatre. This high energy dance concert of hip-hop, jazz, contemporary, ballet, and tap techniques, fun and inspirational music, and lots of special technical effects explores the stories of our lives as seen in pictures and dance. Nationally known choreographer Jared Jenkins has set two hip-hop dances for girls. Other choreographers include director Berrien Long, Jo Beth Thompson, Ryann Ellis, Lori Beth Edgeman, Bettye Jo Wilson, Mallory Starling Dembele, and Jennifer Avery.
Performers include Dalton Dance Company I dancers: Vivian Butler, Mary Chandler Crutchfield, Emma Elrod, Jessica Fannin, Sheridan Fromm, Katie Beth Jenkins, Georgeanne Mitchell, Meg Mitchell, Audrey Sigmon, Jordan Walker, Ashton Wong,
Dalton Dance Company II dancers: Bailey Everett, Kathryn Harbin, Marion Hawkins, Emily Herring, Lauren Hooie, Katherine Marcadis, Lilly Marcadis, Meghan McCurry, Sarah McIntosh, Maddie Mitchell, Kate Orr, Christiana Parker, Chandler Renz, Kristi Russell, Courtney Street, Susannah Tighe, Paige Watkins, Ashley Yarbrough, Natalie Zuspan,
Dalton Dance Company III dancers: Ashley Carson, Mary Clark, Lydia Fortuna, Shelby Fromm, Bowen Halverson, Daniela Hannah, Abbey Jones, Katelyn O’Ferrall, Emily Ross, Chelsea Shepard, Rozalyn Virgo, Lindsay Williams, Megan Yarbrough,
Dalton Dance Company IV dancers: Hannah Addis, Taylor Kate Boyett, Haley Chapman, Sarah Kate Coleman, Sakura Fujiwara, Katherine Griffin, Danielle Jones, Bowen Land, Rachel Morones, Anna Nimmons, Mary Turner Renz, Abby Rogers, Scottie Sandlin,
and guest community dancers April DeLozier, Sarah Knox, Zach Reed, Sam Wilson, Hunter Carson, Ethan Fromm, Cole Townsend, Josh Parrott, Robert Hardaway, Hector Prieto, Robert Enck, Brady Willocks, Cole Calfee, Josh Satterfield, Hank Henson, Jay Rockholt, Thomas Delay, Ryan Young, Scott Abernathy, Brett Chapman, Will Fischer, Nic Urbain, Chris Kazmierski, A J Hooper
The senior dancers Vivian Butler, Mary Chandler Crutchfield, Emma Elrod, Meg Mitchell, Audrey Sigmon, and Jordan Walker, will perform a special farewell dance “Life is Beautiful” choreographed by the dancers for their friends and families.
Nutcracker Tea and Sweets
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| Sarah Lovingood, Elizabeth Pate, and Ashley Yarbrough pose with Emery Edgeman |
Dalton Arts Project will host a Nutcracker Tea and Sweet, its Nutcracker fundraising kickoff event, on Sunday, September 11 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Dance Theatre of Dalton studios, 411 North Park Drive. Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and others are invited to this afternoon tea of fun, food, fashion and auction.
The event’s fashion show will feature clothes from C.C. and Company, Creative Sewing, Eva Mae Formals and the DANCE Boutique. There will be a silent auction and a raffle with more than fifty packaged items donated by local businesses. All those in attendance will create a hat for the tea, decorate a tea cake and fill a bag at the “Candy Barre.” A preview of this year's new Nutcracker Boutique items will also be available for purchase.
Members of Dalton Dance Company will be dressed up as Nutcracker characters for photo opportunities and will participate in the fashion show along with younger dancers.
Tickets to this event $15 are each. For more information, please call Dalton Arts Project at 706-529-ARTS (2787).
International Ballet Star teaches master classes for Dalton Dance Company
ballet classes at their recent Back to School Summer Workshop. Born in France, Sylvie Mesnier studied ballet at the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet School. At age 16, she graduated from the school and made her way through the ranks of the world renowned Company, becoming a Soloist in 1983. In 1984, she won a Bronze Medal at the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki, Finland, then danced as “Principal” with the Northern Ballet Theatre in Manchester, England and the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, WA.
Mesnier’s repertoire includes every major leading role, including Giselle, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Swahilda in Coppelia, Clara in the Nutcracker, and Paquita. She toured extensively, dancing on major stages worldwide: Paris Opera (France), Bolshoi (Russia), Marinsky (St. Petersburg), Covent Garden (London), and in the United States, Japan, Finland, Greece, Spain and Italy. Since her retirement from stage, Mesnier dedicated her life to coaching aspiring dancers, sharing her love and passion for ballet. Her masterful experience allows her to help dancers of all ages reveal themselves.
Along with the master classes from Mesnier, the dancers have studied jazz with Marcus Alford and hip-hop with Vince Gully from Atlanta and have explored classes in yoga, acting, and Zumba. For more information about Dalton Arts Project, please call 706 529-ARTS.