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Celebrating Black History Month through dance

By Sheilah Kast,
Melissa Gerr
Published February 2, 2023 at 10:12 AM EST
Full Circle Dance Company performs February 16 at 7:00pm as part of CELEBRATION: Uplifting and Honoring the Culture and History of Black Dance. Photo: Full Circle Dance Co.
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Full Circle Dance Company performs February 16 at 7:00pm as part of CELEBRATION: Uplifting and Honoring the Culture and History of Black Dance. Photo: Full Circle Dance Co.
Vocalist and tap dancer Brinae Ali performs with the Baltimore Jazz Collective in Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Baby's 102nd Birthday Celebration at the Creative Alliance on Fri. Feb. 24 at 8pm.
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Vocalist and tap dancer Brinae Ali performs with the Baltimore Jazz Collective in Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Baby's 102nd Birthday Celebration at the Creative Alliance on Fri. Feb. 24 at 8pm.
Sole Defined performs February 8 at 7:30pm as part of the Take a Leap 2023: Celebrating Black History Month through Dance at the Gordon Center at the Owings Mills JCC. Photo: Sole Defined
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Sole Defined performs February 8 at 7:30pm as part of the Take a Leap 2023: Celebrating Black History Month through Dance at the Gordon Center at the Owings Mills JCC. Photo: Sole Defined
Hiplet Ballerinas perform February 28 at 8:00pm as part of Take a Leap 2023: Celebrating Black History Month through Dance at the Gordon Center at the Owings Mills JCC. Photo: Hiplet
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Hiplet Ballerinas perform February 28 at 8:00pm as part of Take a Leap 2023: Celebrating Black History Month through Dance at the Gordon Center at the Owings Mills JCC. Photo: Hiplet

Dance transports audiences and invokes emotions. We hear how performers in Baltimore will honor the legacy of African Americans’ influence on dance, and also carry it forward: The Gordon Center’s ‘Take a Leap Series’ and Baltimore Jazz Collective’s ‘Baby Laurence Project.'

Links: Take a Leap dance series, Baby Laurence Projectat Creative Alliance, Baltimore Black Dance Collective, Baltimore Jazz Collective.

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Sheilah Kast
Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
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Melissa Gerr
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'
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