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Dance for Kids 8+
With Desmond Richardson - 60 minutes
In this exclusive DVD for Kids 8+, Desmond guides you through a “basic warm-up” to get your muscles nice and limber. You will also learn some very effective “across the floor” combinations. It does not end there! Desmond has created an exciting, one of a kind, choreographed contemporary dance combination emphasizing; musicality, level changes, dynamics and spacial awareness.
Hailed by the New York Times as one of the great dancers of his generation, Desmond Richardson is a multi-talented artist, a Presidential Scholar, Apex and Bessie award winner, and 2007 “Dance Magazine Award” recipient. He has been a principal dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Frankfurt Ballet, American Ballet Theater and as a guest artist with Teatro al la Scala, Royal Swedish Opera Ballet, Washington ballet, San Francisco Ballet.
Mr. Richardson has appeared on Broadway singing in the shows The Look Of Love, Twyla Tharp’s Movin’ Out (Tony) and received a Tony Award nomination for his role in the hit broadway show Fosse. He can be seen on DVD in the Oscar winning film “Chicago,” in the title role of Othello (San Francisco Ballet), Patrick Swayze/Lisa Niemi film “One Last Dance” and the Sony movie musical film “Across The Universe” directed by Julie Taymor.
Mr. Richardson is Co-Founder/Co-Director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet with Dwight Rhoden.
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