Color it pink: a day for women's wellness (UPDATED)

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Pink Empowerment--February 8, 2009--is a wellness day, dance concert and artist health fair presented by the Move for Breast Cancer Awareness (MBCA), sponsored by and located at Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (enter at Chambers), Manhattan.

Wellness Day
FREE ADMISSION
9AM-12PM

Drop by lower Manhattan for FREE classes and workshops including meditation techniques, rehabilitative yoga, and information on FREE or discounted Health Services. In anticipation of a full house given the FREE admission to our 2pm concert, we will be offering 20 confirmed reservations on a first come first served basis to Wellness Day participants.

Dance Concert
FREE ADMISSION
2PM

featuring works from

Monica Bill Barnes & Dancers

Alexandra Beller/Dances

David Parker & the Bang Group

Laura Peterson Choreography

Urban Bush Women

Christopher Williams

Ellis Wood Dance

Reception & Services Fair
FREE ADMISSION
3:30-5PM

Please join us after the performance for wine cheese and more! Our partnering organizations will be present with staff and materials to share with you available health services and resources to the dance community.

Partners include: Dance/NYC, [QuA²D], Fractured Atlas, The Dancer's Resource, and the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries.

Move for Breast Cancer Awareness (MBCA) is a project of the Queens Academy of Arts & Dance [QuA²D]

UPDATE

WELLNESS DAY
9-9:45am - Raising Awareness for Movement Teachers
A demonstration on teaching Iyengar Yoga to Breast Cancer patients/survivors by Bobby Clennell

10-11am - Prescreening and Prevention
Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered - Patricia Brett and Lisa Held from FORCE discuss genetic profiling
American Cancer Society - Mrs. Riker teaches how to perform a self breast exam
Woodhull Hospital - Oncologist ___ talks about genetic testing and resources at Woodhull

11:15am-12pm - Meditation class (all levels of experience welcome)

RECEPTION & RESOURCE FAIR
FORCE - Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
Harkness Center for Dance Injuries - Injury Prevention
Artist Access program at Woodhull Hospital
Libby Ross Foundation
Actor's Fund - The Dancers' Resource
Young Survivors Coalition
American Cancer Society
Fractured Atlas - Health Insurance options