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Feb. 18 - Fishnet Fete
Aug. 7-8 - Dance Place
Funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Performing Artists
Melissa Greco Liu began her dance training at age 4 in Manila, Philippines, and hasn't stopped since. She earned her BFA in dance from Mason Gross School for the Arts at Rutgers University, New Jersey. In 2001 when she moved to the DC area, she joined CityDance Ensemble, with whom she performed the works of Vladimir Angelov, Adrian Bolton, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Paul Emerson, Eric Hampton, Ludovic Jolivet, and Doug Varone. Melissa also dances with Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company.
Francesca Jandasek, born in Africa and of Czech descent, loves all aspects of the arts and seeks to share this passion with people of different communities and cultures through teaching, performing, and creating. In 2006, Ms. Jandasek received the Artist Fellowship for Dance from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, she was awarded a choreographic fellowship from the Kennedy Center as part of the Millennium Stage Local Dance Commissioning Project and she was nominated as a finalist for "Emerging Choreographer" for the Dance/Metro DC Awards (2007). Ms. Jandasek also dances with Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company and Deviated Theatre. She is a full-time kindergarten teacher at the Sheridan School, piano teacher, composer and is also pursuing her GYROTONIC certification.
Daniel Phoenix Singh attributes his love of dance to Pamela Matthews, a long time friend, teacher, and mentor. Singh holds an MFA in dance, and he studied Bharata Natyam with Guru Meena Telikicherla for several years. He continues to train at the Maryland Youth Ballet. Dan is Artistic Director of Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company. He has also been studying the Cuban/Colombian variations of Salsa and Merengue with Javier Varela and Shawn Malone.
Together with the local instructors and visiting artists of Tango Mercurio