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SILVER-BROWN DANCE COMPANY RETURNS TO NOLA
Posted: November 05, 2007PERFORMANCE THIS SATURDAY
November 10, 7PM
BROOKLYN GOES TO BOURBON STREET
SILVER-BROWN DANCE COMPANY RETURNS TO NOLA
“Somewhere amid the misery and debris left by the storm in the Lower 9th Ward, an idea struck the dancer from Brooklyn.”
Darran Simon, Times Picayune, April 21, 2007
The dancer from Brooklyn, Eva Bordeaux Silverstein, created BROOKLYN TO BOURBON STREET, a two-week dance outreach program in April 2007, that brought her Brooklyn-based company, Silver-Brown Dance (SBD), to the students at Warren Easton Senior High School in New Orleans. After just 14 days of dance instruction, mentoring, and rehearsals the culminating performance was a life-affirming community event. Billy Hatchett, President of the Warren Easton Charter Foundation, described SBD’s residency saying: “SBD did much more than teach dance, they provided recreational therapy… Some of these students had lost the ability to smile and see the positives in life. SBD opened a doorway and helped restore joy.”
On October 14, 2007 Eva and SBD returned to New Orleans for their second annual BROOKLYN TO BOURBON STREET tour. The dance company will be in NOLA for a full month this time. So far, 70 students have signed-up to participate – double the number from April. The culminating performance will take place on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 7pm in the newly restored Warren Easton auditorium. Showings of work-in-progress will be free, and open to the community every Friday afternoon at 5pm. Details can be found on the tour website: brooklyntobourbon.com
Although born and bred in Brooklyn, Choreographer Eva Bordeaux Silverstein considers herself a fourth generation daughter of the Crescent City. Her great grandparents and grandparents lived in NOLA; her grandfather was head of security at the Fair Grounds racetrack; her parents met and married at Tulane University; and she has 16 members of her extended family currently living in greater NOLA.
For Eva, BROOKLYN TO BOURBON STREET is an extension of these strong family roots… and a seed of hope for the city she loves. “The very first day I brought SBD to Warren Easton,” Eva recalls, “I told the students that we heard them, we felt them, we remembered them all the way from Brooklyn. I told the kids that they were not refugees, they are our family, my family, and I’m here to lift my family up. The reason I make dance is to celebrate the human spirit, and the reason I came to NOLA is to help these young people fly!”
The NOLA community supporting SBD’s efforts include Warren Easton Senior High School, Principal Alexina Medley; School Improvement Facilitator, Pattie Payne; Tulane University; and NOCCA. BROOKLYN TO BOURBON STREET programming has been made possible in part by the donated energies of The Silver-Brown Dance Company, its Artistic Director, Board of Directors, Dancers and Staff, generous patrons of the arts, and The Brooklyn Borough President.AUDITORIUM & NEW BAND UNIFORMS UNVEILED
Posted: September 14, 2007On the 94th anniversary of its opening on September 12, 1913, Warren Easton High School rededicated its auditorium which has just undergone $300,000 in repairs paid for by Sandra Bullock, PricewaterhouseCoopers, EPCO Construction, Duran, Duran and Sony PlayStation.
New band uniforms, funded by Sandra Bullock and The Rotary Club of New York, were also unveiled. Nearly 100 invited guests attended the event, including RSD Superintendent Paul Vallas, Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman, Judge John Shea, NOPS Superintendent Darryl Kilbert, President Phyllis Landrieu and board member Jimmy Farenholtz. Also present were representatives of Easton’s major sponsors, the Rotary Club of New Orleans, Pan American Life Insurance and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
EPCO Construction owner Randy Epperling presented Easton President Billy Hatchett a check for $50,000, which allowed the Foundation to complete the renovation project. The company also announced an essay-writing contest in which the winner will receive a free home built by EPCO. More information is available at www.epcoconstruction.com.
CHARTER FOUNDATION ADDS NEW MEMBERS
Posted: September 08, 2007At its September 5, 2007 meeting, the Warren Easton Charter Foundation elected two new members: Charles Hatfield, the board’s first African American, and Barbara Maronge Forshag, the first female to serve on the board.
Hatfield, former Director, Department of Educational Accountability, New Orleans Public Schools, is a managing partner of a technology- based consulting firm, Hatfield & Associates, LLC. He has served as Adjunct Professor at Southern University in New Orleans.
Forshag is a 1966 graduate of Warren Easton and a member of its Hall of Fame. She has served as Assistant Principal at Hurst Middle School. In 2001 she was selected as the Louisiana Teacher of the Year.<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Next >>
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