Thank You

Thank You To---
all who performed this past weekend
all who volunteered
my board of directors
donors
medical team
staff
crew
my son
Sponsors
Grants
and all who came out to enjoy the shows!

It was a magical weekend- I am forever grateful to you all!

Love and Respect
Micaya

Medical Services

So I got this email a little while back and because of this lovely offer, I can now offer medical services backstage for the performers this weekend!
Awesome huh?

Love and respect-
Micaya

Avant health and Fitness
www.avantfit.com

Hi Micaya,
My name is Lily and I am contacting you on behalf of Dr. Sonia Bell, a sports medicine physician that would like to volunteer her medical services for the Hip Hop Dance Fest in November.

Dr. Bell has an extensive and diverse sports background including work as a physician for the USA Track and Field team. She is also a former dancer for the San Francisco Ballet. Dr. Bell has attended your performances before and you two had spoken about her assistance for a future performance.

Attached is Dr. Bell's resume so you can learn a little more about her.
Please contact me at avantilily@aol.com

Thank you,

Lily

what an experience

SoulForce was booked to perform at some elementary schools recently as part of an arts integration program. The program seems to be great at teaching kids about dance choreography and the arts.
Beforehand, I showed a dvd of the exact pieces that SoulForce would perform , but as you can imagine, after seeing the pieces perform live, some of the teachers/parents had issues.
Many issues...
Some of them seemed understandable but most were ridiculous. Its been an interesting journey having this experience because we really have enjoyed performing for these kids.
Tomorrow is our last performance and it is bittersweet. We plan to enjoy ourselves with a final bang!

Then on to our next performance... SF Hip Hop DanceFest Baby! We are in program B!!

Love and Respect
Micaya

cute!

Here are the girl shirts that will be sold at the SFHHDF. Check them out! Super Cute!
Love and Respect-
Micaya
(Photo-Xanthia and Meegan)

some more advice to dancers...

Occasionally I get passionate about the feeling of entitlement with young dancers. I have written about it in my blog before.
I see some dancers that are hungry and committed . They inspire me. Dance is important and it shows.

I need to let you know that the dancers that are coming here from Korea are doing so for the experience alone. (at least with the SFHHDF)They are flying here on Thursday and they have a tech rehearsal, run through and show on Friday. On Saturday, they fly to LA to perform. On Sunday morning they fly back to SF and perform again and fly home on Sunday evening! OMG!
The SFHHDF did not have any extra funds to be able to compensate them after flights and accommodations, yet they chose to come here anyway. They were booked to do the LA gig AFTER they were booked for the SFHHDF gig.
They are committed!

Dancers, a word of advice.. (whether you want it or not) .....
Please follow through with your prior commitments. Make sure people know that they can count on your word. If you come through on the "small stuff" then I know I can count on you for the "big stuff"

Love and Respect
Micaya