Junior Company
Spring 2023 Progam
Doin' It Different
Choreography by: AnnaMaria DiPietropaolo
Danced by: Junior Company and Amanda Supan
Music: Don't Be Afraid To Be Different by Logic and Will Smith
Written by Arjun Ivatury, Jeffrey Townes, Khalil Abdul-Rahman, Manuela Kamosi, Nicholaus Williams, Omarr Rambert, Sir Robert Bryson Hall 2, Thomas De Quincey, William C. Smith
Choreography by: AnnaMaria DiPietropaolo
Danced by: Junior Company and Amanda Supan
Music: Don't Be Afraid To Be Different by Logic and Will Smith
Written by Arjun Ivatury, Jeffrey Townes, Khalil Abdul-Rahman, Manuela Kamosi, Nicholaus Williams, Omarr Rambert, Sir Robert Bryson Hall 2, Thomas De Quincey, William C. Smith
Peace
Choreography by: Amanda Supan and Isadora Snapp
Danced by: Junior Company and Amanda Supan
Music: Peace by Taylor Swift
Written by Aaron Dessner and Taylor Swift
Choreography by: Amanda Supan and Isadora Snapp
Danced by: Junior Company and Amanda Supan
Music: Peace by Taylor Swift
Written by Aaron Dessner and Taylor Swift
Swing It
Choreography by: Isadora Snapp
Danced by: Junior Company
Music: At the Swing Cats Ball by Catherine Russell
Written by Luis Carl Russell and William Campbell
Choreography by: Isadora Snapp
Danced by: Junior Company
Music: At the Swing Cats Ball by Catherine Russell
Written by Luis Carl Russell and William Campbell
The In Between
Choreography by: Willow Wonder
Danced by: Junior Company
Music: Tongue Drum Music by Greenred Productions
Written by Mantas Savickis
Choreography by: Willow Wonder
Danced by: Junior Company
Music: Tongue Drum Music by Greenred Productions
Written by Mantas Savickis
There's Nothin' Holding Me Back
Choreography by: Rosemary Leach
Danced by: Junior Company and Teen Jazz Company
Music: There's Nothing Holding Me Back by Shawn Mendes
Written by Geoffrey Warburton, Scott Harris, Shawn Mendes, Teddy Geiger
Choreography by: Rosemary Leach
Danced by: Junior Company and Teen Jazz Company
Music: There's Nothing Holding Me Back by Shawn Mendes
Written by Geoffrey Warburton, Scott Harris, Shawn Mendes, Teddy Geiger
Guest Choreographers
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AnnaMaria DiPietropaolo (she/her) is originally from Northern Virginia, relocating to Vermont in 2013. She has trained in street dance, ballet, modern, tap, musical theater, jazz, and many other modern dance forms. She has a strong interest in the preservation and education of Black dance forms and their communities, as well as the relationship between dance and neurodivergence/mental illness, with the ultimate goal of making dance more accessible and inclusive to all by dismantling deeply rooted
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biases. She was a member of Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio's Teen Jazz company in high school, has attended intensives such as Rennie Harris' Illadelph Legends and Bates Dance Festival, and most recently completed American Dance Festival. She currently resides in central Vermont, working as an office manager and dancer/choreographer, and spends her spare time creating all different kinds of art.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I am a guest in the HipHop community, and I am incredibly grateful for the knowledge and movement that has been shared with me by hosts, elders, and my mentors so that I may pass it on to others. The knowledge that you will hear today comes from Rennie Harris, Moncell Durden, Shakia Johnson, Quilan 'Cue' Arnold, and Millie Heckler. It's vital for me to acknowledge this so I can help eliminate issues in the community such as attribution, representation, and appropriation. We must be the change we want to see in the world, and hire Black dancers and educators to share their knowledge rather than hearing it secondhand from hegemonic bodies.
Photo by Nathan Burton
IMPORTANT NOTE: I am a guest in the HipHop community, and I am incredibly grateful for the knowledge and movement that has been shared with me by hosts, elders, and my mentors so that I may pass it on to others. The knowledge that you will hear today comes from Rennie Harris, Moncell Durden, Shakia Johnson, Quilan 'Cue' Arnold, and Millie Heckler. It's vital for me to acknowledge this so I can help eliminate issues in the community such as attribution, representation, and appropriation. We must be the change we want to see in the world, and hire Black dancers and educators to share their knowledge rather than hearing it secondhand from hegemonic bodies.
Photo by Nathan Burton
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Rosemary Leach (she/her) has been involved with CD&FS for as long as she can remember. She trained with Lorraine Neal throughout the 1980’s and was a member of the original Teen Jazz. After studying dance at Hampshire College and the Five College Consortium, she continued to center her life around dance while fulfilling other life interests such as love, travel and family. She performed and taught dance in California, Arizona, Maine and Montana before settling back down in 2001 to raise a family in central Vermont. CD&FS is again her dance home, providing her the opportunity for creative, joyful, community connection— for that she is infinitely grateful.
Rose is currently Co-Director of Teen Jazz, alongside Isadora Snapp, and teaches several weekly class at CD&FS. |
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Classically trained, with a BFA in modern dance performance from SUNY Purchase and The London Contemporary School of Dance, Willow Wonder (she/her) has been performing, teaching and choreographing in VT since 2000. Her diverse background includes extensive experience in ballet, Graham, Cunningham, Limon, Release technique, Afro-Haition, belly dance, Contact Improvisation, and the Performance of Improvisation. She has danced professionally with Pauline Jennings, Polly Motley, Paul Besaw, and Avi Waring. She has danced for Hannah Dennison since 2012 in The Quarry Project, Threads and Thresholds, and Dear Pina.
In 2007, she co-choreographed the Green Mountain Nutcracker with Christine Harris of Moving Light Dance. Willow currently teaches dance classes at Contemporary Dance and Fitness in Montpelier, and also performs and co-leads workshops in Improvisation with Alana Rancourt Phinney. To learn more please visit her website at www.willowRwonder.com. |
