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Dear Friends of the Arts,
First things first...
We have some great news regarding the building
purchase of the BCCA! Our purchase offer to the
landlord has been accepted with great terms, and our
remaining need is for a co-signer (with very limited
exposure - Please contact us if you or someone you
know may be interested.). If all goes well, we will
finalize the building purchase by the end of the
summer. BCCA is here to stay!
The battle is being won, but is not over yet. Although
our rent will be reduced by 50%, we will still fall short
for the next 6 months, and also need to install
handicapped accessibility to the basement. We
therefore need to increase our efforts towards
reaching our $100,000 Building Fund goal. We are
already $5,000 closer and things are looking up, but we
need your continued support. To insure that we
achieve our business development goals we are hiring
an interim general business manager and will be looking
for a candidate to assume a long term post 3 to 6
months down the line. For more development
information and to make a tax-deductible donation,
please visit our
development page
and click on the "Building Fund" link, or call Vlad Selsky,
Director of Development, at (617) 233-4647. We are
always looking for talented voluteers, and BCCA board
of directors nominees, and don't forget to check out
our increadible summer class, events & workshop
offerings!
Now for the news about our new summer
courses and upcoming events...
Summer has officially kicked off at the
BCCA, and we are proud to debut the biggest BCCA
course schedule ever!
We thank you for your
patience
during the last week while we entered an incredible new
line-up of courses & events, and we are sure that the
wait was worth it. All of our new courses are listed at
the bottom of this e-mail, including a list welcoming the
new faculty instructors who have just joined the BCCA
faculty. Along with new instructors, the BCCA also
presents a brand-new, easy-to-search schedules
by category to
help
you find exactly what classes you're looking for.
Read on to learn more about the Summer Course
Schedule, including great master classes and
workshops, and exciting events going on this July at
the BCCA.
As one of the highlights of this summer's schedule, we
are eager to welcome the start of the first annual
BCCA
Summer Arts Program, running July 12th through
August 20th.
BCCA Summer Arts Students (ages
4 to 18) will explore
movement and music in the contexts of dance, martial
arts, drama, creative movement, and visual arts,
nourishing
their creativity and developing important skills to
acheive their artistic dreams. Click
here to read about the details of the program, and
e-mail
or call Emily at 617-738-2800 to register.
Sliding-scale pricing makes this program affordable for
all families!
BCCA Class Schedules by Category
Find exactly what you're looking for!
One of the best qualities of the BCCA is its breadth of
offerings, from Irish Step Dance to Capoeira to Charcoal
Drawing, but we understand that navigating through
our class schedule can be overwhelming. This week we
are unveiling a brand new way to search for classes at
the BCCA: class schedules by category. Now,
viewing
the complete line-up of Hip Hop Dance classes, for
example, is just one click away. The following
are
the
available schedules by category. There are direct links
to these schedules from our homepage.
General,
Kids,
Teens & Adults,
Ballet Dance,
Creative Movement,
Health & Fitness,
Hip Hop Dance,
Jazz Dance,
Martial Arts,
Massage, Chiropractic & Wellness,
Modern Dance,
Music,
Partner Dance,
Tap Dance,
Theater,
Visual Arts, &
World Dance
So whether you're into Music, Latin Dance, or Yoga (or
even all three!), there will be different schedules that
display exactly the courses you're looking for.
Keep your eye out for the complete, printed Summer
Course Catalogue, available at the BCCA and many
surrounding local businesses by the end of this
week.
We wish to extend our warm gratitude to the many
business sponsors who have, in good faith, supported
the production of our Summer Course Catalog.
The links to schedules by category are right on our homepage!
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New Summer Classes (listed by day)
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Check out all of our new summer courses! Some have
already started, but it's not too late to register or Drop-
In. Click here to
view our complete course schedule.
NOTE: If you experience any difficulties browsing
our dynamic schedule display, the faculty page, search
engine, or any other feature of our web site, please call
us at 617-738-2800 and we'll be happy to assist
you.
Mondays
Yoga Stretch with Saskia Meckman (5:30-7:00
p.m., Starting July 26th)
Intro to Ballet Dance with Lorraine Chapman
(6:00-7:30 p.m., Starting July 5th)
Introduction to Rhythm Tap with Suzanne
Bouffard (6:30-7:30 p.m.)
Advanced Beginner Rhythm Tap with Suzanne
Bouffard (7:30-8:30 p.m.)
(All Levels) Street Funk with Honey Blonder (7:30-
8:30 p.m.)
(Beginner & Intermediate) Modern Dance with
Lorraine Chapman (7:30-8:45 p.m., Starting July 5th)
Intermediate Cuban Style Salsa & Casino Salsa (Rueda
de Casino) with Hector Fomoa (7:30-8:45 p.m.)
Intermediate Argentine Tango with Fernanda
Cajide (8:30-10:00 p.m., Starting July 19th)
Beginner Cuban Style Salsa & Casino Salsa (Rueda de
Casino) with Hector Fomoa (8:45-10:45 p.m.)
Chiropractic Treatment - Private Sessions with
Peter Stein (By Appointment)
Intuitive Healing for Creative Artists - Private & Group
Sessions with Jay Hovenesian (By Appointment)
Alexander Technique - Private & Group Sessions
with Cecile Raynor (By Appointment)
Private & Group Overtone Singing Lessons with
Guy Mendilow (By Appointment)
Tuesdays
(Intermediate) Modern Dance with Dorothy
Hershkowitz (9:30-11:00 a.m., Starting July 6th)
(Beginner & Intermediate) TEEN Hand-to-Hand
POWER. TO PROTECT with Alex Iglecia (5:00-6:00
p.m., Starting July 6th)
(Intermediate & Advanced) Hand-to-Hand POWER. TO
PROTECT with Alex Iglecia (7:30-9:00 p.m.)
Argentine Tango for Beginners - Section I with
Fernanda Cajide (7:15-8:30 p.m., Starting July 6th)
Argentine Tango for Advanced Beginners with
Fernanda Cajide (9:00-10:15 p.m., Starting July 6th)
Wednesdays
(Level 1) New York Style Salsa for Youths with
Isadora Williams (5:30-6:30 p.m.)
Intermediate Modern Dance with Meghan
McLyman (6:00-7:30 p.m., Starting July 7th)
(All Levels) Scottish Highland Dance Master Class
with Karen Mahoney (Every other Wednesday, 6:00-
8:00 p.m., Starting June 30th)
(Level 1) New York Style Salsa with Isadora
Williams (6:30-7:30 p.m.)
(Intermediate) Tap Dance Technique Master
Class with Aaron Tolson (6:30-7:30 p.m., Starting
August 4th)
(All Levels) Charcoal Drawing with Karina Kadiyska
(6:30-8:30 p.m.)
(Advanced Beginner to Advanced) Intensive
Mambo-Salsa Master Workshop with Ana Tinajero
Massicot & Joel Massicot (6:30-8:30 p.m., Starting
August 4th)
(Intermediate) Tap Dance Repertoire Master
Class with Aaron Tolson (7:30-8:30 p.m., Starting
July 28th)
Intermediate Waltz & Foxtrot Workshop with Liz
Nania (7:30-8:30 p.m., Starting August 4th)
(All Levels) Slow Dancing & Fast Dancing
Workshop with Liz Nania (8:30-9:30 p.m., Starting
August 4th)
(Intermediate & Advanced) The Jump Off: Interpretive
movement through contemporary street dance
with Craig Smith (8:30-10:00 p.m.)
Thursdays
(Intermediate) Modern Dance with Dorothy
Hershkowitz (9:30-11:00 a.m., Starting July 8th)
Advanced Beginner Tap Repertoire with Valery
Marcantonio (6:00-7:30 p.m., Starting August 12th)
(Advanced Beginner) Irish Dance with Kieran
Jordan (6:00-7:30 p.m., Starting July 8th)
Intermediate Tap Repertoire with Valery
Marcantonio (7:30-9:00 p.m., Starting August 12th)
(Intermediate & Advanced) Irish Dance with
Kieran Jordan (7:30-9:00 p.m., Starting July 8th)
(Beginner) Ongoing Argentine Tango Lessons
for 'Milonga La Portena' with Fernanda Cajide (8:30-
9:15 p.m.)
Fridays
Beginner Street Dance with Fadayz (6:00-7:00
p.m., Starting july 9th)
(All Levels) Watercolor Painting with Karina
Kadiyska (6:00-8:00 p.m.)
(All Levels) Low-Impact Latin Dance Workout
with Yelimar Becerra (6:30-7:30 p.m., Starting July 9th)
Saturdays
(Intermediate) Modern Dance with Jennifer Lin
(9:30-11:00 a.m., Starting July 24th)
Intro to Capoeira with Joao Garbe (Mestre
Calango) Ramires (2:00-3:30 p.m.)
Sundays
(Beginner) Comedic Improvisation with Jay
Hovenesian
(11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Starting July 11th)
(All Levels) Hand-to-Hand POWER. TO PROTECT
with Alex Iglecia (1:00-2:30 p.m., Starting July 11th)
(Intermediate & Advanced) Elemental Dance
Intensive with Malinda Allen (1:00-3:00 p.m.,
Starting August 8th)
(All Levels) Rhythms of West Africa with Sidi
Mohamed 'Joh' Camara (5:00-5:30 p.m., Starting July
18th)
New BCCA Instructors
We are pleased to welcome the following artists to the
BCCA faculty. We invite you to admire their impressive
biographies on our faculty
page, and we hope you will come
to sample their new courses this summer.
Aaron Tolson (Tap Dance - Riverdance)
Ana Tinajero Massicot (Salsa & Mambo -
Masacote Entertainment)
Amit Bhambi (Bhangra Punjabi Folk Dance -
Boston Bhangra, Inc.)
Carol Efron-Flier (Tap Jazz Dance - Boston
Conservatory)
Fernanda Cajide (Argentine Tango)
Hector Fomoa (Cuban Salsa & Rueda de Casino)
Raven Sadhaka Seltzer (Kripalu Hatha Yoga)
Jay Hovenesian (Comedic Imrov, Intuitive
Healing, Alexander Technique - Scriptease,
Healing Well Studio)
Joao Garbe (Mestre Calango) Ramirez
(Capoeira)
Lorraine Chapman (Modern & Ballet Dance,
Composition, Authentic Movement - Lorraine
Chapman The Company)
Malinda Allen (Modern Dance - The Moving
Laboratory)
Meghan McLyman (Modern & Ballet Dance -
Caitlin Corbett Dance Company & Digby
Dance)
Raven Sadhaka Seltzer (Kripalu Hatha Yoga,
Massage [LMT])
Saskia Meckman (Kripalu Hatha Yoga, Stretch)
Suzanne Bouffard (Tap Dance, Lindy-Hop &
Swing)
Valery Marcantonio (Tap Dance - Emerson
College, Jeannette Neill Studio)
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Week of July 5th - 11th |
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Milonga La Portena- A New Weekly BCCA Tango
Event
Date:July 8th and every Thursday night to
follow
Time:8:30 p.m. Lesson; 9:15 p.m. Dance until
12:00 a.m.
Tango is taking over Thursday nights at the BCCA with
a great new milonga, featuring an introductory lesson
with Fernanda Cajide and open dancing until midnight,
plus live music from the sensational Bernado
Monk's "Mass Tango", winner of the 2004 NYC
Tango Contest. Come out this Thursday to launch this
exciting new event!
Admission: $13 lesson & dancing; $10 dance
only
Info:
BeanTownTango.com
On1 Salsa Workshops brought by DJ
Hernan
Date: July 10th
Time: 3:00-6:00 p.m. Workshops
DJ Hernan is back at the BCCA for great salsa
workshops and performances with special guest Melaza.
3:00-4:00 p.m. Int/Adv Beginners
4:00-5:00 p.m. Footwork and Shines
5:00-6:00 p.m. Advance Partnering with John Narvaez
and Liz Rojas
9:30 p.m. Beginner & Intermediate Salsa Lessons
10:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Noche de la Salsa Party &
Dance
Info: BostonSalsero.com
or e-mail Hernan
Classics Open Mic
Date: Sunday, July 11th
Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Join host Paul Jordan for an evening of favorites,
including Broadway show tunes and classics from the
last several decades. Live accompaniment and solos by
pianist Diane Dexter. Bring a piece to
share, come to sing along, or simply sit back and enjoy
the performances.
Admission: $5
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Week of July 12th - 18th |
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Classical Israeli Folk Dance Night
Date: Saturday, July 17th
Time: 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Join us at the BCCA for a tribute to old-time nostalgic
Israeli culture of world dance, including circle dances,
Arabic Debka's, and line dances.
Admission: $5
Info: E-Mail
or call Annette Zrihen at 617-738-5038
GRAAACE Project Fundraiser
Date: Saturday, July 17th
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Akwaaba! The GRAAACE Project (Girls
Raising Awareness Artistically
As Community Educators) will
host a fundraiser at the BCCA to support the project's
travel to Ghana in August. Project co-directors Wendy
Kinal and Ally Ross will teach a three-week performance
and poetry workshop to girls in Ghana, ages 9 to 12.
The event's
proceeds will be used for art supplies such as
paint, paper, and pencils, that the young artists will
use throughout the workshop. The fundraiser supports
an important cause and will offer a wonderful evening
with music, refreshments, and great raffle prizes.
Admission: By donation
More info about GRAAACE Project: E-mail Ally Ross
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Ballroom Buffet & Ballroom Blast Dance
Party
Date: Wednesday, July 21st
Time: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Workshop; 8:30-10:30
p.m. Dance Party
This "Ballroom Buffet" workshop is the Cliff's Notes of
social dancing! Learn the basic footwork of the most
popular and essential partner dances in just one hour:
waltz, swing, tango, slow dancing/schmooze foxtrot,
and fast dancing. This workshop is a great introduction
for novices and a useful refresher for others.
Then try out your brushed-up skills at the party to
follow. Dance to swing, foxtrot, tango, waltz,
two-step, salsa, cha cha, and more, DJ-ed by Liz Nania
of
OUT to Dance. No partner necessary for either event.
Admission: $14 workshop only; $10 dance
party only; $20 for both
More Info about Liz Nania & "OUT to Dance":
OUTtoDance.com
Songwriter Poet Open Mic Theme Night: Gospel and
Spiritual Night
Date: Wednesday, July 21st (Every other
Wednesday)
Time: 9:00-11:00 p.m.
This Open Mic will feature songs and poems of a higher
source, following a gospel/spiritual theme. No sign-up
necessary.
Admission: $5
More info: E-mail Sandi
Hammond
Paintings by Karina Kadiyska: Landscapes, Still-
Lifes & Portraits - An Art Opening
Date: Friday, July 23rd
Time: 8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Duration: July 23rd - September 5th
Karine Kadiyska holds bachelor's degree in painting and
a master's degree in sculpture in 2001, and she has
studied and trained all over the world. Her exhibition to
be installed at the BCCA this month
includes Karine's oil paintings from 1995
to 1999. In this period of 5 years, Karine has painted
realistically, yet some paintings combine seen and
imagined, thus showing her interest in the inner world
of ideas and memory as well. Karine is a faculty member
at the BCCA and teaches Charcoal Drawing on Wednesday and Watercolor Painting on Fridays (Call to register or
Drop-In.).
Admission: Donations appreciated.
Hacha y Machete Salsa Workshops
Date: Saturday, July 24th
Time: 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Hacha y Machete Benefit Salsa Party
Date: Saturday, July 24th
Time: 9:30 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
BCCA's Noche de la Salsa joins Hacha y Machete for a
special benefit party.
Info: www.hymstyle.com
Israeli Movie Night
Date: Saturday, July 24th
Time: 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Info: E-Mail
or call Annette Zrihen at 617-738-5038
Film to be announced soon. Stay tuned!
"Strap": A Power. To Protect. Master Series
Workshop
Date: Sunday, July 25th
Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m.
This master series workshop is designed for martial
artists of all experience levels who wish to advance
their skills and knowledge using Bussey's legendary
strategies. This session will focus on a variety of
maneuvers and options one has with a flexible weapon:
striking, defending, tie ups, take downs and some very
cool maneuvers.
Admission: $30 ($5 discount for signing up with
a friend)
Info & Online Registration: PowerBoston.com
Classics Open Mic
Date: Sunday, July 25th
Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Join host Paul Jordan for an evening of favorites,
including Broadway show tunes and classics from the
last several decades. Live accompaniment and solos by
pianist Richard De Mone. Bring a piece to share, come
to sing along, or simply sit back and enjoy the
performances. This open mic will feature a special
appearance by BCCA faculty member, drummer &
percussionist, Igansi Corella (Private & Group Drum Lessons).
Admission: $5
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Wednesdays (Every other week)
"Open Mic for Musicians & Poets" 9:00-11:00 p.m. ($5)
*See July 21 listing for theme night
info
Thursdays
"Milonga La
Portena", 8:30 p.m. Lesson; 9:15-midnight
Open Dance
($13 with lesson; $10 dance only) *See July 8th
listing
Saturdays
"Noche de la Salsa", 9:30 p.m. Lesson;
10:30 p.m.-1a.m. Open Dance
($12 with lesson; $10 dance only)
Sundays
"Mr. Roger's Tango Practica" 3:00-6:00 p.m. ($5)
"Freestyle Sundays" 8:00-11:00 p.m. ($5-$10)
"Classics Open Mic" 7:00-9:30 p.m
($5) *Every other Sunday
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And don't forget, when attending evening events at
the BCCA, please park in non-residential, metered spots
only. If you have questions about parking in Coolidge
Corner, please call us at 617-738-2800.
Thanks for a great spring, and we look forward to
an action-packed summer!
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