with Ritu Shree
Asian Cultural Center of Vermont (ACCVT) and Luminz Studio Dance and Performing Arts Center present Bollywood Dance Workshops with Ritu Shree, [...]]]> Sundays February 20 – March 20, 2011, 5pm – 6pm, and continuing into April! For details, contact ACCVT’s collaborating partner and host, Luminz Studio.

Ritu Shree presents Bollywood Dance workshops in Brattleboro

Bollywood Dance Workshops

with Ritu Shree
Asian Cultural Center of Vermont (ACCVT) and Luminz Studio Dance and Performing Arts Center present Bollywood Dance Workshops with Ritu Shree, Sundays 5-6pm at Luminz Studio, 74 Cotton Mill Hill, 3rd Floor, Brattleboro. Contact Luminz Studio to confirm your participation, (802) 254-9200. Classes are suggested donation per person of $10 at the door. First workshop was a big success; thanks to Darlene Jenson for hosting the space. Workshops the following month were continuing successes; thank you to Ritu for her time and sharing, to Aurora of Luminz Studio for hosting, and to Yasuko and Tony for the arrangements.

Instructor: Ritu Shree is a Dance movement therapy and counseling student at Antioch University New England in Keene, NH. She has spent a major portion of her life dancing. She has learned and performed Classical Indian dance forms like Bharatnatyam and Kathak, later specializing in Jazz, Bollywood and Modern dance. Ritu has been learning and performing for the last 15 years, has taught many dance classes, and trained college dance teams (India) in Jazz, Bollywood and modern dance.

Tentative schedule of events:
11am-1pm: Set-up + install display of student Word-Art (inspired by Chinese characters and exhibited only during the Festival)
Asian Cultural Center of Vermont (ACCVT) presents
the Lunar New Year Festival of Vietnam, Korea and China,
Sunday afternoon Jan. 30th at the River Garden, 157 Main St., downtown Brattleboro.

Tentative schedule of events:
11am-1pm: Set-up + install display of student Word-Art (inspired by Chinese characters and exhibited only during the Festival)
1 pm: Let’s eat! It’s a potluck. Bring whatever you can manage, Asian or non-Asian.
While we’re eating… a presentation on Asian medicine by Watercourse Way.
1:25pm: a 4-song sing-along – join in or listen; wanted: Korean and Vietnamese New Year songs, too.
1:30pm: Martial arts demos: kung fu and t’ai chi
2:30pm: Group Chinese exercise
2:40pm: Korean Team Rope Pull
3pm: Enter the Giant Vietnamese Dragon, in pursuit of the Heavenly Pearl.
Parade circles inside the River Garden, then outside along Main St., crossing over at High and Elliot Sts, then back inside for a a finish flourish.
3:30pm: Group New Year Calligraphy using ink and brush.

* All welcome, all ages.
* A free event with donations to ACCVT welcome to help defray event and program expenses including space rental.
* ACCVT’s activities and programs are supported in part by Vermont Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Vermont Community Foundation.
* Thanks to our media sponsors: the Reformer, the Observer, the Commons, and Artscope Magazine.
* For further information, contact ACCVT Board President Damon Honeycutt via his Facebook page or ACCVT Executive Director Adam Silver at (802) 579-9088.

Thank you to the many who worked hard to make this year’s Lunar New Year Festival a big success: Damon Honeycutt, Norma Willingham, Yasuko Ichinomiya Parmenter, Tony Parmenter, Cai Xi, Marie Procter, Madeline Fan, Haiyan Hu, Sam Erlanger, Joshua Spaulding, Michelle Mahin, Molly Gawler, Sijo James Robinson, Sifu Lew Henderson, Sije Karin Tyree and Charles Weston of Running Fist Kung Fu, Leah Silver, Emma Rueter, Grace Willingham, Danielle Lauria and Building a Better Brattleboro, Chinese Learning Group of Brattleboro.