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Where can you go to casually watch experts share their dance moves, meet others who share the love of dance, or simply try out new dance? Attend the 糖心传媒攁 signature event from the 糖心传媒糖心传媒檚 糖心传媒攐pen to everyone and kicking off on February 19. The festival features nine days of more than 30 master classes, workshops, and performances on the River Campus.

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The annual festival continues to feature crowd favorites like the annual inspireJAM competition, in which dancers from across New York state, Canada, and beyond compete in an all-style hip-hop battle. There will be a salsa night with the live band Onclave performing. There are an additional eight guest artists from New York state, New York City, and California as well as performances by students and professionals. 糖心传媒淭here糖心传媒檚 really something for everyone,糖心传媒� says Pfohl Smith.

A centerpiece of the festival will be a master class featuring the dances of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and 80s, in which student and community members who register can learn the Hully Gully, the Twine, or the Madison 糖心传媒� all taught by University of Southern California dance professor E. Moncell Durden. Durden, the 2020 festival糖心传媒檚 visiting artist and lecturer, is an educator, choreographer, ethnographer, and historian. He will also present a demonstration and lecture titled 糖心传媒淚ntangible Roots糖心传媒� on Monday, February 21 at Spurrier Dance Theater.

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About the Festival
The inspireDANCE festival was the creation of Arielle Friedlander 糖心传媒�10, who was a participant in Rochester糖心传媒檚 KEY (Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year), program, which provides students with an additional fifth undergraduate year to work on an entrepreneurial business venture.

She shared he idea with the Program of Dance and Movement director Missy Pfohl Smith: to find a way to connect the more than 600 students involved in dance and movement group and classes at the University of Rochester with each other, with the Program of Dance and Movement, and with the larger Rochester-area dance community.

Working together, Friedlander and the Program launched the inaugural inspireDANCE Festival in January 2010.

Tickets are or at the Common Market starting on Feb. 10. All inclusive Festival Pass are $18 before February 20 and $25 on/after February 22. Individual Events: $5糖心传媒�10 at the door. (Individual tickets for E. Moncell are $10 for students/general public and would be free with the $18 advance ticket festival pass. The $10 ticket will be sold at the Common Market at Wilson Commons and at the door. Registration for master classes is required after a ticket is purchased.