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Dear Usdan Community, Last week, we met 5-year-old Mimi, who will join Usdan for the first time this summer and who has been contributing her youthful creativity to the development of new professional works of dance. Today, please meet Sophia Kianni, who is 19, who lives far from Usdan in Virginia...

Dear Usdan Community, Of late, our Musings feature youth voices. Last week, we read the passionate argument of Usdan student Ariana Glaser, and in the weeks prior, we absorbed the poetry of a number of Usdan creative writers. Today, I am pleased to introduce you to Mimi, a 2021 first time camper in...

In an ambitious new virtual dance on film project, Dance Heginbotham (DH) is collaborating with Usdan Artists in Residence Colin Jacobsen and Maile Okamura. DH founder John Heginbotham, his team of dancers, and some surprise guest artists explore the eclectic, delightful, dark and melancholic turns...

Read on; please do. Usdan student Ariana' Glaser’s opinion piece In the Defense of the Performing Arts in Long Island Schools was published in Newsday on February 15, 2021. She is 14. My mom, who passed away in 2010, would have turned 79 on that day. My mom was the person who taught me that...

Dear Usdan Community, Almost a year has passed since the first Musing; thank you for being part of this dialogue. Since most Musings have addressed the main values of Usdan — sustainability, equity, health & safety, community, and of course, youth creativity — I am using this one year anniversary to...