Grupo Cafu Capoeira is excited to invite the public to it's capoeira graduation performance, or batizado. Capoeira is a 500 year old African dance that evolved in Brazil into a martial and cultural art. Brazilian capoeira masters have been invited from all over the country to evaluate, challenge, and bless the accomplishments of capoeira students here in Houston. Brazilian Mestres and experienced students from around Texas will demonstrate the art and movement of capoeira. The public is welcome to be apart this amazing dance and culture.

Tickets are $10 to enter. Limited parking available, $5 paid parking next door. 10:30am - 12pm Sunday, July 29th at Barnevelder, 2201 Preston Street, Houston, Texas 77003. For info: www.cafucapoeira.com

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Have fun learning moves, style, and choreography along with Houston's hot new group, FLY KiDS, and perform with them in a public concert. For dancers at all skill levels, FLY Dance Company choreographer Kathy Wood, FLY KiDS director Rhonda Valencia, and guest artists including world famous HAVIKORO will teach Hip Hop, Breaking, Waving, Popping, Theatrical Stagecraft, and Concert Choreography.

Dance classes and choreography for boy and girl dancers ages 9 - 14 will be taught 9AM to 4PM, Monday-Friday, July 23-27, 2007 at the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex (downtown, near Minute Maid Park). Family and friends are invited to the free student concert at 3PM Friday, July 27th.

Channel 2's Courtney Zavala interviewed Christopher Easterling about his experience at Dance Houston's dance camp last year. Christopher demonstrated the pop-locking he picked up at camp and talked about how he's been feeling great dancing at parties ever since camp last summer.

You're invited! Come to the Young & Intense camp performance. This fun-filled studio recital will be on Friday, July 20th at 6:00pm at Mitsi Dancing School.

Known as one of the hottest up and coming dancer/choreographers in the industry, Nolan began his professional dance career at the young age of 18. Although dancing had been at the forefront of his whole life, it would be difficult for him to train in hip-hop until he moved from the small town of Cheyenne, WY. to Denver, CO. While living and dancing in Los Angeles, Nolan has learned the ins and outs of the industry, and still continues to grow as an artist. Working with the likes of J.C. Chasez to Jennifer Lopez and even staring in a reality show on M.T.V.'s "Dancelife", make his performance experience top notch.

Date: Saturday. July 7 2007
Registration at 12:30 p.m.
Intermediate Class - 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Advanced Class - 2:30 pm - 4-00 pm
Cost: $30/per class (at the door)
Location: Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex

Congrats to Lindsey McGill and Paola Georgudis for winning Big Range Dance Festival's Buffy Award. The annual Buffy awards are given to outstanding people in the dance community, and this year's awards highlighted contemporary dancers. An "academy" of approximately 80 contemporary dancers and choreographers voted to honor Lindsey McGill and Paola Georgudis. Congrats!

(Pictured here: Louie Salatan, director of Big Range, with Buffy Award winner Lindsey McGill)

Presented by Dance Houston, Young & Intense offers training and performance opportunities in modern, jazz, hip hop, social, and cultural dance to dancers ages twelve to sixteen. A two-week intensive workshop and performance, Young & Intense plants the seeds for discipline and growth in Houston's young dancers. It will be July 9 - 20 at Mitsi Dancing School. A few spots are left--register Monday morning at 8am.

This program is funded in part by grants from Harris County and the Texas Commission on the Arts through the Houston Arts Alliance.