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 Show To Be A Celebration | Type: Internet Article |
| | Show To Be A Celebration | May 06, 2004 | by Scott Smith
Summary:
Youngblood lives in Los Angeles and has worked as a dancer and choreographer for J.Lo, Christina Aguilera, Sean “P Diddy” Combs, Bust Rhymes, Dr. Dre, Pink, Brian McKnight and Justin Timberlake.
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Local dance instructor Grayce DeWitt can look at a 1977 show program and remember every one of those students.
She is hoping her studio’s 30th anniversary show at 7 p.m. May 14-15 at the Alma Performing Arts Center, 103 E. Main St. in Alma, will be equally memorable.
“It’s a show of what we’ve done in the past 30 years, and I had to pull my favorite dances and things we’ve done over the years for it,” DeWitt said. “It was difficult, especially when you think there are 35 to 40 numbers in a show, but I enjoyed it.”
More than 140 students will participate in the two-hour production, which will include traditional ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop and other styles, she said.
“I’m excited because we’re having former students participate and dance with us in the show, including Barry Youngblood, Brooke Edwards Townley and my daughter, Kameron Kiley DeWitt,” DeWitt said.
Youngblood lives in Los Angeles and has worked as a dancer and choreographer for J.Lo, Christina Aguilera, Sean “P Diddy” Combs, Bust Rhymes, Dr. Dre, Pink, Brian McKnight and Justin Timberlake.
Townley was the lead singer and dancer on the Holland American Cruise Line and has performed in equity workshop productions of “Bye Bye Birdie,” “The Best Is Yet To Come,” “A Chorus Line,” “The Music Man” and “Kiss Me Kate.”
Kameron Kiley DeWitt will appear as the title character in D.C. Comics’ upcoming “Wonder Woman” comic books and will star in the horror film, “Shadow Walker,” set to be released in the fall of 2005.
“For me, it’s about the children,” said Grayce DeWitt. “It’s exciting because I’m teaching the children of some of my students.”
She started her business by traveling around the area, carting a stack of records and a record player.
“I taught at the old gym in the Booneville High school, wherever they would let me teach,” DeWitt said with a laugh. “I’d drive for 15 kids.”
She opened her studio in Barling in 1978 before moving it near Central Mall and, finally, to its current location at Park Plaza. DeWitt now has about 250 students ages 3 and older.
“I think the performance arts are important,” she said. “And we have to support the arts here. That is what this is about.”
Tickets for the show are $4 at the door. |
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