Usdan Blog
Musings | Mar 19, 2021
Dear Usdan Community,
I hope you have one minute to watch the video below of Alden reading his poem called But One Part.
I first met Alden when he was a student in Usdan’s Sustainable Design class and when he led a community of 200 guests in a Solar Nightwalk on Governors Island...
Musings | Mar 12, 2021
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...
Musings | Mar 5, 2021
Today, I am pleased to introduce you to Mimi, a 2021 first time camper in our Discovery program.
While Mimi enjoys camp this summer, her parents — violinist Colin Jacobsen* and dancer Maile Okamura — will be collaborating with student dancers and musicians to create a new work of art as part of a three-year Artists in Residence project with The Knights, an ensemble that Colin co-founded.
News | Mar 4, 2021
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...
Musings | Feb 26, 2021
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.
Musings | Feb 19, 2021
Because youth creativity is at the center of everything Usdan, my new goal is to place youth creativity at the center of the next wave of Musings. We will feature Usdan youth writers and artists.