Celebrate Dance 2010

Executive Producer Jamie Nichols is delighted to announce CELEBRATE DANCE 2010 will be held Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:00pm at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale, California. The 2010 show will include a line-up of “knock out” dance companies, smashing new work and debuts by nine ingenious choreographers skillfully lit by masterful lighting designer Eileen Cooley, the recipient of seven Lester Horton Dance Awards for Lighting Design.

CELEBRATE DANCE 2010 will feature: BARE Dance Company (Mike Esperanza Artistic Director), Body Current Dance (Lorin Johnson Artistic Director), Catch Me Bird (Nehara Kalev & C. Derrick Jones Artistic Directors), JazzAntiqua Dance and Music Ensemble (Pat Taylor Artistic Director), Josie Walsh’s MyoKyo, Macarena Gandarillas and Dancers -Visions Dance Theatre, Motion Tribe (Marie de la Palme Artistic Director), PTERO Dance Theatre (Paula Present Artistic director) and RhetOracle Dance Company (Nate Hodges Artistic Director).

For three consecutive years 2007, 2008 and 2009 CELEBRATE DANCE has been awarded the Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement for Festival and a considerable number of participants have received Lester Horton Dance Award nominations and awards from showing their work in the annual festival presented by “impresaria” Jamie Nichols. For the last two years running the event has been a complete sell out show with enthusiastic audiences of all ages.