and the nominees are...

I'm so excited to announce that I have received a Metro DC Dance Award nomination for Emerging Choreographer!! The awards ceremony will be held on Monday, September 10, 2007 at 7:30 pm at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I just want to say thanks for all the support and love from the DC dance community. I'm just learning and growing as a choreographer and am always inspired by other artists and by what's going on around us. For me, the stage is a classroom and a playground and I'm so charged to keep putting work on it that everyone can access and enjoy.

Carter Barron Performance

Are you looking for something to do on Friday, August 10? Well, here's your answer: Aysha Upchurch & Co./Life, Rhythm, Move Project will be performing at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre as part of Mason-Rhynes Productions' Expressions Showcase. It's a great show with other awesome local performers that begins at 7:30 pm. Oh!!! I forgot to mention it's absolutely free!!! So, I'll see you in the audience!

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Kennedy Center Local Dance Commissioning Project

I am one of the three choreographers awarded the Local Dance Commissioning Project for this year. I am so honored and blessed to have this opportunity to use the Millennium Stage as a forum to discuss the plight of today's youth. The commissioned piece is entitled "Am I On?" and is an examination of how youth's voices are sometimes suppressed and ignored. I have a talented group of local dancers who will bring this vision to life using Hip Hop choreography. I hope to see you in the audience at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage on September 6 & 7 at 6 pm. Oh...the show is free and the location is Metro accessible...see you there!!