News Release - Edgerton R-Center to Host The Swan Dreams Project Ballet Camp

 

City of Rochester

News Release

 (Monday, July 16, 2018) – The Edgerton R-Center will host famed Ballerina Aesha Ash’s Swan Dreams Ballet Camp from August 6-10, 2018. 

Registration for the ballet camp is now open. Youth participants ages 6-17 will learn skills, technique and ballet performance from expert instructors. The standard City of Rochester Summer Camp rate of $100 per week for city residents will apply; however Edgerton R-Center and City-wide R-Center dance program participants are free. 

Aesha has been a professional ballet dancer for 13 years. After attending The School of American Ballet, she joined the New York City Ballet at the age of 18, where she remained for eight years dancing numerous soloist and principal roles. Aesha then joined the Bejart Ballet, in Lausanne Switzerland, as a soloist. After enjoying success in Europe, she returned to the United States in 2005 where she joined Alonzo King's Lines Ballet.

She then began working with Morphoses, founded by Christopher Wheeldon. Aesha has been featured in Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, Bazaar, Marie Claire, The New York Times and The San Francisco Chronicle. 

Aesha started The Swan Dreams Project Ballet Camp to diversify the ballet community and promote the art form to more African-American women in order to increase patronage and involvement by all. Aesha believes that socio-economic status should not limit anyone’s dreams, and she strives to inspire students to live these dreams through her Swan Dream Project. 

Please call or visit the Edgerton R-Center (585) 428-6769 for more information. For more information regarding Aesha’s Swan Dreams Project, please visit: http://theswandreamproject.org/. 

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News Media: For more information, contact Press Officer Jessica Alaimo, 428-7135.