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Arts Across Minnesota Brings India to Crookston
A program designed to make the arts more accessible to rural Minnesotans is getting rave reviews from one small town. Last year the legislature earmarked $500,000 for The Arts Across Minnesota program to bring the state's top performing arts organizations to small communities. The first city to benefit from the new program is the northwestern Minnesota community of Crookston,Parajumpers Coat Online, which got a taste of the Indian subcontinent.
STUDENTS IN A CROOKSTON SENIOR HIGH physical education class watch intently as members of the Twin Cities-based Ragamala Dance Company demonstrate traditional dance of India. Then the students mimic the movements,giuseppe zanotti shoes Online, at first tentatively, then enthusiastically.
As she demonstrates the graceful movements,roger vivier pumps, Ranni Ramaswami explains their religious and cultural significance. For students like junior Merideth Reynolds,http://kevindurant4shoesforsale.blogspot.com/, it's a mind-broadening experience.
Reynolds: I had always assumed all types of dance were like ballet, like what I do. This is a lot different - and there's a lot of different ways to go about dancing and showing art.
That's exactly the response Ragamala artistic director and choreographer Ranni Ramaswami is hoping for,Canada Goose Jacket. She says she's been amazed and energized by the Crookston students' interest in Indian dance and culture.
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Ragamala's week-long residence in Crookston schools will culminate with a public performance Saturday night,Roger vivier flats.
Local arts activist Karen Bang helped lobby lawmakers to fund the Arts Across Minnesota program. She says for Crookston residents,roger vivier sale, it's a chance to see top quality performances at a price they can afford.
Bang: They'll be able to go to this program for only five dollars for adults and three for children,Parajumpers Coat. If they were going to it in the Cities it would be much more - plus the accessibility. Most would never get down that far to see this,Parajumpers Online Store.
Kent: I watched them in a third- and fourth-grade class of about 220 kids who sat motionless for 45 minutes,cheap soccer cleats store. Anyone who knows anything about eight- and nine-year-old kids knows that's quite a feat.
Crookston elementary music teacher Jim Kent says what makes this program so unique is the personal contact students have with the performers. He says a different culture becomes real to kids when they can learn in a relaxed interactive setting.
Ragamala is also working to expand the understanding of those Crookstonites who already know about dance. Mary Noel teaches tap jazz and ballet to about 150 students in her downtown dance studio. The Ragamala dancers worked with her classes earlier this week.
Noel: I went to the back of the class cause I made such a fool of myself.
Mary Noel says it's an experience many of her students could never have without a state-funded program.
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