Dance For Kindness has been very very meaningful to me since its inception. I have always wanted to participate but there wasn’t a Group Leader in Augusta, Georgia where I live. Last year I decided to become a Group Leader for the Boys and Girls Club. The kids had so much fun! This year I was the Group Leader at The Jessye Norman School of the Arts. The dancers were a complete inspiration to me. In addition, we are planning to invite other schools to participate next year.
Special Thanks
Gary Dennis, Executive Director of the Jessye Norman School of the Arts
Carmen Moses
Mary Reed, Dance Instructor for the Jessye Norman School of the Arts
This is my 5th year leading Dance for Kindness in Perth Western Australia! Once again it was completely fabulous. Our community comes together, staff, parents, Year 10 girls and our Kindy students to form bonds and connections and continue on throughout the school year. We also had several lead up events showcasing how kindness can ripple. Cant wait for 2020!
Special Thanks
Perth College Anglican School For Girls
Perth College Teaching Staff – Suzanne Bushby and Amy Fittock
Year 10 and Kindergarten Students
Kings Park and Botanical Gardens
Blue Print Screen Art – Sean Bell
Being a Group Leader for this amazing movement has been an incredible opportunity! A great challenge, but also an outstanding chance to be able to unite people from different ages, professions and places in one space, to remind the world that kindness is what keeps the world afloat!
Seeing everyone’s commitment is incredibly shocking in a good way, as a school community, is great to see the students waiting for the event, we even made DFK our main event for our kindness week, and they get very excited when the time comes for the video shooting, but it’s even more gratifying to see how they have this multiplying effect, in their families and friends. And how kindness is not just a week to celebrate but a way of living. Definitely, a very edifying program!
Special Thanks
The organization team, they did an amazing job! supporting the organization of the event and promoting the dance with everyone!
Katherine Pineda, Paulette Rostrán, Victoria Bendeck, Arleth Cornejo and Alejandra Gonzalez from San Pedro Sula
Gabriela Rivas, Xochilt Garcia, Annjaneth, Lucy and Maritza from Santa Rosa
Being a DFK Group Leader was challenging for me but it was also rewarding! Even I have lived in Australia for a long time, communicating and appealing to the event in English was difficult for me. However, LVI responded to my questions and provided a lot of encouragement and support. Even though I struggled to gain a lot of participants, the event was successful and I found many many kind actions around. And most of all, on the event day, all dancers enjoyed the day and danced with joy and happiness. That was the best part of being a DFK Group Leader. We felt a sense of unity through Dance for Kindness.
Special Thanks
Big Thanks for all the donations, sponsorship and supporters
This was my first year to take part in DFK and serve as a Group Leader. I am a school counselor and kindness is our theme this year so when I learned about DFK, I decided to involve my 5th grade students and their teachers. Getting people on board was challenging but with the help of a couple of dedicated teachers, it came together. It was amazing to see my kids and teachers dance for such a great cause. The school librarian came to me and said that some of the kids were singing and dancing while looking for books. That touched my heart. I am so proud of my students and teachers. I hope to do this again next year.
This was the best year yet! It was amazing seeing dancers all over the world coming together to celebrate kindness through dancing! It was incredible to see my choreography performed around the world!
Special Thanks
Special thanks to Nikki Zenker–I couldn’t do it without my cheerleader! Thank you to BalletNova Center for Dance for your support. A huge thank you my family and friends for their continuous support and help! And thank you to Orly Wahba for this incredible opportunity!
Sponsors
Mike Illg and the City of Homer Recreation Program
Videographers: Jake Kitzmiller & Anoop Nair
Photographers: Cathy Harder, Amy Russell, Seth Spencer & Christina Whiting
Katie Jo Gamble, Falcom Greear, Barbara Kaun, Karen Murdock,cDavid Northup, Catriona Reynolds, Maria SantaLucia
Being a Group Leader for a second time was more of a challenge than I thought it’d be! We ended up having 4 schools join us, so there was a lot more to organize. But it still turned out well, we raised a good amount of money and the kids LOVED performing at the mall in front of a whole lot of people! I hope that it helps spread the message of kindness further every day.
Special Thanks
Gersilda Sinanaj, Administrative Coordinator, TIS
Antonio Panetta, TIS (videographer/doc film teacher/location sound)
Natalie Musilova, TIS, dance captain
Cameron Kalua, TIS, co-group leader
Matt Stalker, TIS, Activities Director
Irena Dajci at Toptani mall
Nevi Kelmendi at Toptani mall
Dorina Troka at Toptani mall
Documentary film students at TIS: Davinci Panetta, Vincent Panetta, Gianmarco Cornacchia, Nicholas Koski
Lori Newman at GDQ
Suzanne Gregory at GDQ
Briana Roberts at ACTirana
Morgan Jenkins at ACDurres
Luljeta Dalipi at MIST
Sponsors
Mike Illg and the City of Homer Recreation Program
Videographers: Jake Kitzmiller & Anoop Nair
Photographers: Cathy Harder, Amy Russell, Seth Spencer & Christina Whiting
Katie Jo Gamble, Falcom Greear, Barbara Kaun, Karen Murdock,cDavid Northup, Catriona Reynolds, Maria SantaLucia
My event just took place and my heart is SO full! The dancers had a blast. Our community rallied around to support and participate in the event. It was truly a group effort. This experience brought us all together for a common purpose and knowing that we were linked to 50+ other countries all doing the same, creates a global bond that we wouldn’t have experienced without this DFK opportunity. We all felt it. With much gratitude.
Special Thanks
Tasha Bryant, our dance teacher
Muskoka Dance Academy for lending us rehearsal space
The Huntsville Ukulele Group for lending us their sound system and for performing at the event
Zack Fitzsimmons, for performing at the opening and closing of our event
DN Designs for assisting us with getting our shirts
Community Living Huntsville and Huntsville Festival of the Arts for supporting the All Abilities Dance Troupe
Creative Community Muskoka for their interactive ‘stamp of kindness’ art display
Volunteer photographers and videographers
It has been a privilege to be the DFK Group Leader for the 5th year consecutively. This opportunity has enhanced my skill sets many folds. The support and encouragement received from LVI is phenomenal. It feels like a family with each member supporting each other and the guidance from Orly is invaluable.
Special Thanks
A very special thanks to the lovely participants who came for #DFK2019 to stand together and spread Kindness.
And our very dear volunteers who worked day and night for a whole month to organize and make the event a success and being able to deliver the message of Kindness.
To our dance partner Nish Dance Academy and Mr. Vivek Rajput our choreographer since last 5 years supporting us everything to organise DFK in New Delhi.
Sponsors
We are extremely grateful for the support we received from our wonderful partner without whom the event couldn’t have been so successful, we received great support from World Animal Protection India as knowledge partners. The event wouldn’t have been possible without the support we received from our venue partner Pacific Mall Tagore Garden. Last but not the least the energy that our energy sponsor Monster energy drink brought to the event.
