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Cecile Oreste (Founder and Editor)
Cecile Oreste is an arts marketing and public relations professional. She recently held the position of Marketing and PR Manager at Joy of Motion Dance Center, a nonprofit dance organization based in Washington, DC. She also served on the Board of the DC area’s leading modern dance company Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company. She is the founder of local dance blog danceDC and previously contributed to the arts section of online news site Borderstan.com. Cecile moved to New York in January 2014 and currently works for Atlantic Acting School. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @cecileoreste and connect with her on LinkedIn.
It has been an amazing experience learning about the DC dance scene through my blog. I am happy to have met so many interesting, creative and wonderful artists along the way. I look forward to my next adventure and hope you will continue to follow me on my journey wherever that may be. – Cecile
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Hi Cecile, saw you on twitter as we follow some of the same people. Wanted to plug (no shame!) our incredible summer intensive to you and your readers… great opportunity to be taught for a full week from stars of SYTYCD. We’re located in maryland, maybe 45 minutes outside of DC.
the website for our intensive is http://www.soyouthinkyoucanjamz.com Nothing like this has been put together in the Maryland/DC area as far as I know.
thanks for taking the time to look!
-Jason
Hi Cecile!
LOVE your blog. This is such a great thing you’re doing. I wanted to introduce myself as someone fairly new to the DC dance community and as CityDance’s new External Relations Manager. I also wanted to share our new calendar we have up on our site – you and other DC dancers will be able to find info about our upcoming auditions and events there:
http://www.citydance.net/events.cfm
Thanks for all this great info! Let me know if you have any q’s about anything on our calendar. It is definitely a work in progress – more to come!
Best,
Julie Gerdes
Thanks, Julie! Nice to “meet” you : )
We would like to share this video in celebration of PersianNew Year!
Hi Cecile, I noticed that you haven’t posted in a long time and your twitter says you’ve relocated to New York. Anyways, Company E has a new location in DC and it’s called Dance Loft 14. We’re having some great events coming up and I’m sure you still have a large DC Dancer community outreach. There are some great opportunities coming up with Company E such as our summer tune-up, for more information feel free to visit http://www.companye.org
Thanks so much! Happy blogging.
Hi! Yes, I live in NYC now and am no longer updating this site. I heard about Dance Loft 14 though. Very exciting. Hope all is well in DC.
Thanks Cecile! If you could pass along our link that would be great. If not, thanks anyways for your time and kind wishes! Hope you’re enjoying the beautiful city.