Project Performing Arts

A CAST of CHARACTERS ‼️‼️‼️🤩

Yesterday was the last day in the studio. All the hard work, additional rehearsals, frustration, laughter, last-minute changes, and growth have all led to this moment, OnSTAGE! 2016. Saturday, June 13th, our PPA students will be brilliant, light up the stage, and share the magic they’ve poured their hearts into all season. Let’s Go PPA!

Dance isn’t just vocabulary, technical skills, and counts — These young professionals are learning that with this spoken-word poem Dear Young Woman, they are exploring and discovering how to interpret emotion, rhythm, and storytelling into artistry that speaks beyond the steps. They are learning how to become the movement, the emotions, the message. Pushing the envelope for OnStage! 2026.

To all my dance teacher friends, we all know that one of the best feelings as a dance educator, a teacher, is seeing students start to demonstrate the clarity of technique and movement phrases. But when they begin dancing with every correction, texture, and performance quality discussed, it’s that “aha” moment that warms your heart. Things might not be perfect, and everyone knows that there’s more work to be done, but that “aha” is the best!