Steal This Dance

Some moves created originally for Raizel Performances' "The Piners Prom" and recreated in the foyer of our house in Montreal.

Donated by Will Butler, Arcade Fire (www.arcadefire.com); Jenny Shore Butler, Freelance Choreographer and Homemaker

Donated by choreographer Peter Carpenter, Chicago IL.

Donated by Sergey Kozadayev, artistic director, Salt Creek Ballet

These moves are from "In Progress", a 40 minute improvised solo. Performed on December 13th 2007 at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, WA.

Retail Value: $500.

This move is like the the Christmas ornament where you pull the string and the center goes down and the limbs all fling outward, except that there's also a spin first to get a little momentum so you can feel the energy going from tight-centered to free. It's a terrific sensation! This great feeling must be worth quite a bit! Maybe $100?

Donated by Laura Wade
Assistant Artistic Director- Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago
Ballet Mistress- River North Chicago Dance Company
Faculty- Lou Conte Dance Studio
Adjunct faculty- Northwestern University

You never know when modern dance will attack.

The sample is from YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD, and will be performed by Jump Rhythm Jazz Project at the Pritzker Pavilion in August 2009. The full work will premiere in Jump Rhythm Jazz Project's 20th anniversary season at the Dance Center of Columbia College in 2010. For more information, go to www.jrjp.org.

Donated by Billy Siegenfeld, Artistic Director, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project

Donated by Eduardo Zuniga, formerly of Hubbard Street II.