Dance Place Celebrates 35 Years (Washington Post)

The Washington Post recently published an article about the contributions of Dance Place, a Brookland-neighborhood dance studio and performance venue, over the past 35 years.

The Washington Post recently published an article about the contributions of Dance Place, a Brookland-neighborhood dance studio and performance venue, over the past 35 years. Dance Place has worked to build a community of dancers--students, choreographers, teachers, and performers--that are an important asset to performing arts in Washington, DC.

TDPS Dance instructor Alvin Mayes is quoted in the article to discuss the important relationship between Dance Place and the UMD Dance programs:

Mayes, a longtime instructor at the University of Maryland, where he is the director of undergraduate dance studies, has worked with Perlo and Riley to plant the idea of college into the minds of the middle school and high school students from the Brookland community who attend Dance Place’s summer camps. “Young folks there often felt they did not have a voice,” he says. The students learned to use computers and fill out applications; they took tours of the Maryland campus. At least one of his students at Maryland has landed a job at Dance Place.

Read the article here: D.C.'s Dance Place celebrates 35 years of building the field, by Sarah L. Kaufman