InspireDance Virtual Festival

To proceed and register for specific events, please fill out and email signed pdf waiver to m.p.smith@rochester.edu. Then choose as many master classes and events as you like and we look forward to moving, dancing and experiencing the arts with you!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18CcPP6Z4-v5PQ81sN9uf6TeCeelHlIc9/view?usp=sharing

Celebrating its 11th year, The inspireDANCE Festival grew out of a simple idea to find a way to connect student dancers with each other, with the Program of Dance and Movement and with the larger dance community in the Rochester area. With well over 1000 students involved in dance and movement groups and classes on the University of Rochester campus today, along with several other excellent local university dance programs and a cohesive community of professional dancers in the Rochester area, inspireDANCE has grown into an opportunity to unify, develop and strengthen the dance community at large. The festival is designed to encourage you to try out as many new dance and movement forms as you desire, and to experience dance as art, expression, performance, community building, and the celebration of diverse cultures.

For more information, please visit http://sas.rochester.edu/dan/news-events/inspiredance/index.html or email dance@rochester.edu

With gratitude and best wishes for an inspiring experience,

Missy Pfohl Smith, Director, Program of Dance and Movement

About inspireDANCE

The inspireDANCE festival was conceived in January 2010 as a project for the Experiential 5 Program (formerly Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year), a UR program that provides students with an additional fifth undergraduate year to work on an entrepreneurial business venture. KEY student Arielle Friedlander Tannenbaum ’10 realized there was a wealth of dance on the UR campus in pods that were somewhat isolated, and saw the potential for and value of a united dance community. She, along with Missy Pfohl Smith, then the new Director of the UR Program of Dance and Movement, wanted to give students opportunities to grow as dancers, to broaden their perspectives in dance, to communicate with one other, to share the rich and diverse dance activities that exist at UR and in the Rochester region. The inspireJAM was conceived in 2013 by student Smon Cheewapansri ‘13, sharing hip-hop culture and breaking with the UR community. Bboys and bgirls and all styles of dancers gather from across NYS and Toronto, to battle for a cash prize, and to defend the inspireJAM title. We were proud to continue this tradition for the 8th year in 2020 with an All Styles battle, and look forward to Rokafella’s inspireJAM workshop in 2021 and a live battle again in 2022!