Name: Renee Amirault Performing Talent: Dance (Hip-Hop, Ballet, Jazz, Modern) What did you do this summer pertaining to your talent? This summer was all about dance and improvement for me. First, during the month of June, I attended a Jose Limon modern dance intensive at Skidmore thanks to help I received from the Mark Larner Fellowship award. My teachers were the actual company members of the Limon dance company so I was able to learn from them and see how they lived as members of a dance company. Then, from August 12-25, the Andover Dance Group and I traveled to Scotland to perform at the Fringe Festival. I warmed up the company on days of performances and we all worked tremendously hard to make sure the technical aspects of the show as well as our dance pieces were the best they could be. In between trips, I worked at a day care in Lawrence, MA teaching kids ballet twice a week. I also had a work study at Green St. Studios in Cambridge, MA. where I cleaned the studios and facilities once a week in exchange for free classes. What was your favorite performing experience? I think that my most memorable [experience] would have to be Hipnotiq’s piece for the Dance Open last year. Delia Tepozan ’07 and I worked extremely hard on the choreography with the help of Ms. Wombwell and Ms. Strong. We were able to grow not only a as a group but also raise the level of talent that we had. We stepped out of our normal comfort zone of mainstream hip-hop and tried something completly new. During our [dress rehearsal] of the piece, Ms. Wombwell began to yell and cheer for us in approval of the piece. Just to have her approval and support was really touching.
