Kids take on the greats

[Editor's Note: In addition to being a dancer and choreographer, Tara O'Con is a graduate of my Spring 2007 Writing on Dance course at Dance Theater Workshop. Here's a snippet of her feature piece about Kids Company, a project of Diane Jacobowitz's Dancewave, just published in the Brooklyn Eagle. Click here for the complete article.]

clipped from www.brooklyneagle.com from "A Modern Dance Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Tara O'Con Make no mistake, the terrain of the teenage years is nothing short of a battlefield. However, if adolescence is such a battle, then time spent with Dancewave’s Kids Company can be thought of as a cease-fire. Quite simply, when ambitious and talented teenage dancers, ages 12-18, are put into a room with a renowned professional dance artist, a transformation happens.