This past month the Dance Foundations Living Learning
Community has been busy with attending last minute performances, writing final
papers, and learning their final dances for their dance classes. In the middle of December the Dance LLC class
will be preforming their work to the other classes and anyone else who wants to
watch them. One thing we did as an LLC was attend a performance from Danceworks
Performing Company called Footsteps,
Shadows and Whispers at the beginning of November. The dance LLC members
that attended this performance fell in love with the performance. It made for
great discussion and connection with each other. As the LLC is preparing for
winter break and their final projects I have planned little study sessions in
the lounge for us to work together. We will be making stress balls and giving
each other encouragement for our final week of the semester.
Another thing that we did in the month of November was we entered
the first ever University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Dance Marathon. This event
was an amazing opportunity to raise money for children at a local hospital that
are sick. One of the residents, Lexi Rios, raised $100, which was the highest
amount someone raised on the Dance LLC. During this event we all stood and
danced for ten hour to support those that can’t stand or walk. We were able to
meet some of the families and children that we were supporting and hang out
with them all night. This was an amazing way to support our community and a way
for us to do what we love most…Dance.
Throughout the semester we focused a lot on building
friendships, building connections, attending performances, and figuring out how
to get through the first semester of college. A lot of the dance LLC members
are first year students beside a few second year students. A lot of the first
year students look up to the second years for advise on classes and they lean
on each other if they are struggling with any classes. The Dance LLC has become
very close in their classes and as a community. They have build great
connections with each other and have become very good friends..
As an LLC we have had a lot of fun getting to know each
other these past three months. I am very excited to see what next semester
holds for us and to see what we will do as a community.
Here are some fun pictures of some of the Dance LLC members doing site specific work:
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