Ascending Star Dance Directory
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Kehl’s offers competitively priced dance wear including: dance shoes and apparel to our customers and the public. We select the highest quality, best value shoes, leotards and tights for our customers. Each location stocks a wide range of products. When you purchase your dancewear from Kehls, you will be guaranteed to have the shoes, tights, etc. that you will need for performances.
Madison: 5117 Verona Road Madison, WI 53711 // (608) 819-6501
Waunakee: 1020 Quinn Drive Waunakee, WI 53597 // (608) 849-4740
Middleton: 8152 Forsythia St. Middleton, WI 53562 // (608) 819-6501
At La Boutique, you can purchase any dancewear items you may need (including shoes, leotards, tights, accessories, and more). Our store is run by an intelligent staff of dancers who are well rehearsed in the needs of a dancer. Many new items in weekly. Also skating apparel and gymnastic leotards.
Specializing in pre-professional training for the serious student, or an engaging experience for those not pursuing rigorous training. Our small classes, personal attention, and high standards allow our students to grow in confidence, but with wisdom and realistic awareness. Our performance opportunities give wings to artistry, the necessity of team responsibility, and a tremendous pleasure of accomplishment.
Li Chiao-Ping Dance creates and presents concerts of contemporary postmodern dance, featuring highly physical, elegant and inventive works. LCPD was founded in 1990 and had its first concert in Madison in 1995. It is a resident company of the Overture Center for the Arts and works hard to spread the benefits of dance.
Reflecting and supporting the artistic vision of choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, Li Chiao-Ping Dance produces and presents original performance works, provides mentorship, education and training, offers opportunities for residencies and collaborations, and promotes tolerance and respect.
Limanya Drum and Dance Ensemble, under the direction of Mandjou Mara and Maya Kadakia, performs traditional music and dance from Guinea and Mali, West Africa. By incorporating song, dance, drum and theatre, Limanya's performances are high-energy entertainment for all audiences. Perfect for schools and community events, Limanya's shows create cultural connections and provide engaging educational experiences. Limanya is composed of a diverse group of dancers and drummers who share a love of African tradition, celebration, and culture.
Directed by original Hubbard Street dancer Claire Bataille and led by a faculty of experienced performers, choreographers, and musicians, the Lou Conte Dance Studio (LCDS) at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago offers weekly classes of all levels in ballet, jazz, modern, tap, hip hop, African, African drums, musical theater, yoga, Pilates, and Zumba, as well as workshops and master classes.
Lucky Plush Productions is an ensemble dance-theater company based in Chicago, led by founder and Artistic Director Julia Rhoads. The company is committed to provoking and supporting an immediacy of presence—a palpable live-ness—shared by performers in real time with audiences. A unique hybrid of high-level dance and theater, Lucky Plush’s work is recognized for its layered choreography, nuanced dialogue, surprising humor, and socially relevant content.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsible and responsive democracy; the strength and vitality of our headquarters city, Chicago; and generating new knowledge about critical issues.
The Madison Bellydance Alliance is a loose confederation of fans and practitioners of Middle Eastern Dance in the Madison, Wisconsin area. Whether you are a professional dancer, an enthusiastic student, a musician, or simply someone who enjoys watching bellydance—from raqs sharqi to Tribal styles, from folkloric to gothic—you are welcome to join us. Our community shows offer performance opportunities to dancers of all levels in a relaxed atmosphere.
Our mission is to offer the highest quality dance training in a noncompetitive, positive and respectful environment for dancers ages 3 to adult – beginning through professional levels. Dedicated to the pursuit of artistry in dance, we strive to instill a passion for the art form by nurturing the technical, emotional and creative development of each student.