Music Video Collaboration

Though it’s a performing arts troupe of young adults with Down syndrome, this ensemble actually proves that dance is for everyone. This Tennessee-based company performs all over the country, and its members’ contagious energy and pure joy at dancing are prevalent throughout this episode. After watching it, you’ll become a big fan of Company d—guaranteed.

New York New York recently became the motivating theme song for Company d. After seven years of weekly classes, long rehearsals, summer and winter workshops, performances, performances, performances, dancers were ready “… to be a part of it, New York New York”. The desire for the dancers to perform publically at a national level, to receive master level dance instruction, and to expand the dancers’ aesthetic education and cultural experience “in a city that never sleeps” was part of a vision and became a dream come true in September 2008. It is impossible to rate the best part of the dancer’s four day trip to New York. Every step the dancers took was with excitement, pride and their confidence grew taller and taller.

Professor Moira Logan says there’s a dancer in us all. Two unique initiatives at the University of Memphis open doors for what might seem the most unlikely of performers. By Sara Hoover Among rows of dancers bending and stretching at the University of Memphis is a life lesson. The theatre and dance department is revealing a dancer that is not defined by mastery of the plié, but by heart. And these groups have more than enough.