Tag: fundraising

Dancing It Forward

When dancer Georgia Bernbaum was in fifth grade, she participated in a supply drive for the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, a homeless shelter near her Orlando, FL, home. “I started thinking about what it would be like to stay at the shelter, and all the things I’d miss,” she recalls. Then it […]

Dance Against Cancer Raised More than $243,000 for the American Cancer Society

“I’m dancing for my mother; performing for a cure.” Those were the words that began Dance Against Cancer’s 5th annual benefit on Monday night, before New York City Ballet principal Maria Kowroski took center stage. While brief, her performance of George Balanchine’s Mozartiana (an excerpt) left barely a dry eye in the theater—including a grieving […]