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    Ms. Brooke Kuhl-McClelland,
Director
Office Hours: Noon to 1 pm

Dance Department News   Honors
New! Important Dates 2009-10
New! 2009-10 Pics - May Concerts
    Spring Concerts!!   Photos
Congratulations!
Photos to Benefit Hammond Dance and the Bob Gross Memorial Scholarship Fund
 
Dance Department Overview
  The Dance Department at Hammond offers five levels of dance instruction: introduction, intermediate, advanced, junior company and company. Students are
taught ballet, jazz, modern, ethnic and tap. All dance students have the
opportunity to perform in two dance concerts a year. Placement in Junior Company
and Company are by audition.
2009- 10 Dance Department News
   
  Performance News!
Spring Dance Concert:
The Hammond Dance Department
presented its final concert of the school year Thursday through Saturday evenings, May 13, 14, and 15 at 7pm in Hammond's auditorium.
The show was the culmination of the year's work of
the entire department's dance students
from beginning dance
 
through the companies and included student choreographed projects. Saturday's
performance
included the senior recognition.


New! 2009-10 Photos of the Spring Dance Concerts

Thank you!
A big thank you goes out to all the volunteers who have enabled Hammond Dance
to continue to set the standard of excellence for a school dance program in Howard
County.

New! Congratulations!
Congratulations to the graduating senior dancers. Thank you for being a part of Hammond Dance and we look forward to seeing you as members of our audience next year.

Congratulations to the 2010-2011 companies!
We are planning an exciting year.

New! Photographs---Keith Simpson has taken some awesome close up shots of our
dancers during the May Concert and rehearsals. Every dance performed has been photographed. To benefit the Hammond Dance Department and the Bob Gross Memorial Scholarship Fund, Mr. Simpson has made these photographs available through the following web address:

http://kesphoto.shutterbugstorefront.com/g/hammond_dance_may2010
Password: G0Bears! (2nd character is a zero)

Thank you to allof our volunteers. Without you, Hammond Dance would not be the program it is.

Have a wonderful and safe summer!
Honors!
 
Congratulations to Dance Company member Julie Rose, who was selected as a
Hammond High School nominee for Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts. She will audition this June. Good luck, Julie!

Congratulations to the DANCE III class for their Black History Month Assembly
performance
on March 19.
   
 
Dance Company members Megan Giroux,
Caitlin Rose and Abby Slavinsky were each awarded the Maryland All-State Award at
the Maryland High School Dance Festival
held on January 8, 2010.

Congratulations ladies!
Important Dates 2009-10
 
December 17: 7:30pm -
Remembering Bob Gross Show
January 8: Maryland State Dance Showcase (Company only)
January 14: 6pm - Parent Meeting for WDW
January 30: 7pm - Howard County Dance Festival at Long Reach
February 4: 7pm - Winter Concert
February 8: 6pm - Disney Preview
February 9-14: WALT DISNEY WORLD!!
February 18: 7pm - Winter Concert (Postponed from February 5 due to inclement
weather forecast)
May 10-12: Concert Rehearsals
May 13, 14, & 15: 7pm - Spring Concert
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Photo Galleries
   
  2009-10 Photo Gallery    2008-09 Photo Gallery

2007-08 Photo Gallery
    2006-07 Photo Gallery

 
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