This film highlights an incredible week in LA that included business meetings; the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre with Sean McLeod and Kierstyn Zaykoski taking part in the national IABD Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative with the Mellon Foundation and the Nonprofit Finance Fund; Sean McLeod and Denise Saunders Thompson launched, and Karen Brown, Thomas Warfield, and Devon…
Edward Rosado, Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre 1st Company and Junior Associate speaks on behalf of the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre at the Decentralization Grant Program Luncheon. Finger Lakes Community Arts Grants announced the recipients of its 2018 Decentralization Grant Program Thursday. Thirty-seven organizations and artists in Cayuga, Seneca, Onondaga, Wayne and Yates counties will receive a…
“Do You See Me” Sean McLeod and the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre shared a powerful message of Inclusion in New York City. A premier, this new dramatic, dance, and musical production helps explore the responsibly of those who allow the “isms” to exist. All of Us. “Do You See Me” taped for a larger online audience…
Article by: Bonita Gooch In one of her first interviews after being promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet, Misty Copeland was quick to recognize those that came before her. “I’m just standing on the shoulders of so many who have set this path for me, and they may not be seen or recognized,…
The New York Institute of Dance & Education and Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre will conclude the 2017 New York Dance Festival with the “A Day In Dance” gala concert from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, July 21, in Exchange Street Plaza, Auburn. The event moves downtown from West Middle School. The festival, which began July 10,…
International Producer and American Choreographer Sean McLeod debuted two movements of his new work “Return to Eden” while on tour in Italy. Mr. McLeod was invited as a US dance company and dance master for the Stage Internazionale Di Danza in Valdagno, Italy. The first work “Beginning of Eden” features Kierstyn Zaykoski and Sean McLeod.…
Exciting news! Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre, under the direction of Sean McLeod, will arrive in Italy this week! Sean will join guest teachers Lorella Doni (ballet) and Matteo Dal Prà (hip hop and break) in leading Master Classes in collaboration with ASD Accademia (Marta Mettifogo and Silvia Mettifogo), Stage Door ASD (Amber Rose Perkins) and myself,…
International Producer and American Choreographer Sean McLeod teaches Master Classes for his friend and colleague the renowned Cleo Parker Robinson, working with the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble and community members in Denver, Colorado. The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance School: The year-round school was founded in 1970 as part of the vision of Cleo Parker…
International Producer and American Choreographer Sean McLeod looks on as New York City Professional Dancers dance a combination at the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre Auditions NYC at Dance Arts New York (DANY) in New York City. Many New York City dancers are still feeling the impact after the New York Dance Festival Fall Workshops…
The Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre helps women and girls learn to appreciate themselves again through lessons in behavior control, life skills, and healthy comparison based evaluation for all. Families are rebuilt through family mediation, where parents learn to use our principles to control their children while becoming happier people. Teachers are able to make their classrooms…
International performers Kierstyn Zaykoski and Edward Rosado perform with the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre in Sean McLeod’s acclaimed work “Popeye,” an excerpt from “Nursey Rhymes Suite.” The New York Institute of Dance & Education and its affiliated Kaleidoscope Dance Threatre are holding workshops and a tryout in New York City over the next few days.…
Sean McLeod leads Skaneateles middle and high school students in a musical theater workshop as part of the “Sean McLeod’s Broadway: A Project for Community” Artist in Residence. Photo Credit: Sarah Jean Condon SKANEATELES — Perhaps the old saying is true — the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. A couple…
Jerami Kipp, International Performer and New York Choreographer, the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre, and local community performers, perform “Silver Bells” at Christmas in the Finger Lakes. Photo credit: Gwendolyn Craig AUBURN | Jamie Beth Velazquez is used to being on stage. Saturday night, however, she was in the audience, watching numbers she used to perform…
International Producer and American Choreographer Sean McLeod and the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre work with Skaneateles Middle School students to develop confidence and the traits for success during a Musical Theater Workshop. (PC: Christopher Malone – Skaneateles Journal) From the Skaneateles High School auditorium stage, Sean McLeod addressed a group of middle school and high school students.…
The Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre/Sean McLeod Dance Experience performs last year at the West Middle School Auditorium, in Auburn, NY. The Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre/Sean McLeod Dance Experience will celebrate its 25th season with a pair of kickoff performances at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2 and 3, in the Skaneateles High School auditorium, 49 E.…
One of the most unique aspects of the New York Institute of Dance & Education’s Applied Study Program is its direct access to people of note in the world of dance and business coupled with the invaluable information that is not only taught, but then encouraged to be applied which allows the candidates to…
Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre is fresh off of a tour to Auburn, NY and back in NYC for regular classes! This week, NYC Director of the New York Institute of Dance & Education, Hana Ginsburg Tirosh, focused on McLeod Technique Modern, a codified dance technique based in emotional development that cultivates a vast movement range, an emotional vocabulary,…
Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre Company Members learned from the Executive Team about the business, design, and communication, that goes on behind all the dancing with which they are familiar. A great opportunity wrapped in the bridge being forged between Upstate and NYC Dance. This week, several Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre Company Members traveled from NYC to Auburn, NY to work…
Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre Members came back to NYC from the New York Dance Festival fresh with inspiration having met the Legendary KDT Performer and McLeod Technique Gold Standard Teacher Lorienne Beals who was in from Italy! In the photo above: Lorienne demonstrates during a Reinforced Motor Function for Ballet Application Master Class with Master Teacher and…
Sisters is a piece that was created many years ago for a company of young female dancers who were all having different personal struggles in their lives. Struggles because their dad wanted them to be this and didn’t want them to be that. The boyfriend who was saying “I called you at 9 o’clock, where…