Bringing Dance to Belgium
In Belgium, the NGO Dance Can Do develops its activities in collaboration with the non-profit organisation ASL En Corps, which is responsible for implementing and deploying the NGO’s projects across Belgium territory. […]
Author: Hannah Seagrave
Posts by Hannah Seagrave
Dance summer camp
We ran a dance summer camp for children in Kenya. Selina Meier captured the wonderful experience and we have included a sample of those images below. […]
Dance club
Since 2022, we offer qualitative weekly sessions to two groups of schoolchildren in London Battersea. The focus is on creativity, with themes changing twice a year. Rachele Rasipardi and Shevelle Dynott are the movement artists who lead the dance club. The program culminates with a performance given at the Royal Academy of dance. […]
Dance workshops
In 2021, movement artist Yen-Ching Lin facilitated dance and movement sessions with children at the Ritsona camp in Greece. Teaming up with the incredible NGOs Lighthouse relief and Solidarity Now, we were able to bring dance sessions combining drawing, sound, visualisation and movement to these unbelievably inspiring kids, teenagers and young adults. […]
Introduction to ballet
Ballet teacher Selma Boukef offered weekly ballet classes over two consecutive school years to a group of children in Tunis, Tunisia. For most of these children, the dance class was their only extra curricular activity. […]
Beila
I started dancing at a small ballet school near my home in Maryland. I first practiced gymnastics. At some point, I had to choose between ballet and gymnastics. I had started to get scared to perform certain moves like backflips and dance appeared like a new reassuring option. We had talent shows at school where my friend and I were choreographing and performing on the soundtracks of “Finding Nemo” or “Harry Potter”. […]
Ji Min
I was 14 when I auditioned to get into the National Ballet School of Canada. I then moved from Seoul to Toronto by myself. After a short while there, I fell very ill and had to stop dancing for 4 years. Those were the darkest times in my life. Ballet defines who I am. It is a part of myself. […]
Renaldo
I was born in Gary, Indiana. Raised by a single mother in a family of three children, I am the oldest. The first man to take care of me as a child was my grandfather, before my mother met my stepfather. He was the father figure, the male role model in my life. […]
MBali
MBali is a young Johannesburg-born dancer and gymnast. She is is part of the iKapa Youth Development Program. MBali likes the feeling of freedom dancing gives her.
– “I enjoy practicing ballet because of all the French vocabulary we use. I love the words like “pliés” or “allongés”. They make me travel in my mind” […]
Dor
I grew up in a village between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. As a young boy, before I started dancing, I was impossible to live with. The youngest child in a family of three, I was a difficult oddball. I lived in a fantasy world. As I was tight-lipped, people had a hard time to understand me. I was bubbling with energy which was somewhat overwhelming for everybody around me. […]