Featured Artists

Dance NowLaura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp are renowned for their daring virtuosity, visual elegance and strong sense of social responsibility. An innovative duet company, they create works that reflect their individual and combined experience of contemporary culture. Highly energized choreography includes ruminations on action and re-action, conflict, empathy, and transformation – creating motion narrative with a sensual luster and dynamic variety.

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Laurel Victoria Gray
Choreographer and Instructor


Laurel Victoria Gray is the recipient of the Kennedy Centers 2003 Local Dance Commissioning Project Award and the International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance (IAMED) Awards for Best Choreographer (2003) and Best Ethnic Dancer (1999). She is the Artistic Director of both the Silk Road Dance Company -- winner of the IAMED award for Best Dance Company (2003) and Joy of Motion Company-in-Residence. She is a finalist for the 2004 Metro DC Dance Award for "Excellence in Costume Design." An internationally acclaimed dancer, scholar, instructor, and choreographer, Ms. Gray’s research has taken her to five continents. She has inspired thousands of students, both amateur and professional, giving workshops and concerts throughout Europe, Central Asia, Australia, the United States and Canada. In 1984, Ms. Gray founded the Uzbek Dance and Culture Society and in 1994 established the annual Central Asian Dance Camp. She teaches "Dances of the Islamic World" and "Dances of Egypt" as Adjunct Faculty at George Mason University and George Washington University. In 2004, she taught at the American College Dance Festival and the Mendocino Middle East Music and Dance Camp.

 

Upcoming Events

Wed Sep 08 @08:00 -
Extravaganza Extraordinaire
Sat Sep 11 @03:00 -
According to Us
Sat Sep 11 @08:00 -
According to Us
Sun Sep 12 @03:00 -
According to Us
Sun Sep 12 @08:00 -
According to Us
Sat Sep 25 @08:00 -
Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana
Sat Oct 30 @07:00 -
Joe's 15 year Anniversary Gala

“The professionalism of the instructors was definitely an asset.”

-Cecil Doggette
Outreach Services, Health Service for Children with Special Needs

When an outreach program for a health agency called Joe’s they found they could offer everything their constituents were looking for – yoga, belly dancing classes, and even Jazzercise.  The agency hoped to offer movement classes for parents to help combat obesity and reduce stress.  The program’s director, Cecil Doggette explains, classes “are growing and some are filled to capacity.  Folks are on waiting lists… It has been so successful.” 

Cecil credits the “professionalism of Joe’s instructors” as “definitely an asset in terms of what is happening and the success of it all.”