We asked our students to tell us about their experiences in the Lawrence Summer Dance Institute.

This is what they had to say!

• I learned that there are dances from all over, but they all connect as as one dance.

• It made appreciate it more than I did before and it makes me proud to be Haitian.

• I can take the things I learned about expressing myself through dance can help me blow off steam through dance or help me through tough times in my life.

• It was really fun learning new dances. I did the program last year and this year! I can’t wait to do this next year! Even over computer they make it fun! Thank you for such a fun time!!!!!!

• I will take away more dedication and thinking about how my body moves through the world outside of dance.

• This program helped me realize how much we are all different, but the same deep down and that is a good thing. This program helped me realize that you can always connect with someone, no matter how different they are, through dance, even if they speak a different language.

• We are all connected when dancing as a team and that is pretty cool.

• The Summer Dance Institute made me feel like I have a dance community outside of my own in Maine! I think that we all have something unique and different about each others dancing and I love how we can come together and dance in our differences.

Read more about the plans for summer 2021!

Thank you to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their generous support of the 2020 Summer Dance Institute.