Dance

Hollins Dance Project
This is an exciting group of young artists who imagine dance as a form of visual storytelling. Delicious irony and witty craft drive the dancers and their work, which is an outgrowth of studying, inventing and exploring movement as a vehicle for expression, and as a source of human experience. The company's repertory is passionate, humorous, insightful, poetic and fearlessly unpredictable. Current residencies include Bates College in Portland, Maine, and Syracuse, N.Y. Members include Melissa Chris '98, M.A.L.S. '01, Sara Procopio '98, M.A.L.S. '01, and former M.A.L.S. student Jesse Zarritt.

Community Performances
Solo and company pieces performed for community groups. A recent performance of the Hollins Dance Project at Richmond's Grace Street Theatre showcased the company's "diversity and talent," according to the Richmond Times Dispatch. Community-based outreach projects have included the development of integrated arts curricula for young artists, movement classes at senior centers, and urban revitalization efforts through arts programs for at-risk youth at the Dumas Hotel Music Center. In 2002 students assisted teaching at Westside Elementary School.