{"id":2385,"date":"2011-11-23T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2021-06-02T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T19:08:40","slug":"great-leaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/23\/great-leaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance takes center stage at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_2441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2441\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/great-leaps.jpg\" alt=\"two people dancing on stage\" title=\"great-leaps\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/great-leaps.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/great-leaps-260x161.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers Stephanie Shepherd and Babatunji Johnson, photo by Chuck Koester<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dancers from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo Performing Arts Department and <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> presents the <em>Great Leaps<\/em> dance concert on Tuesday, December 6, 7:30 p.m. at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu\/\">Performing Arts Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This annual event features more than 150 dancers from Hilo and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> dance classes and invited guests from the community.<\/p>\n<h2>Great Leaps Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jazz and ballet pieces choreographed by Celeste Staton, including excerpts from the Nutcracker Ballet<\/li>\n<li>Pas de deux featuring performing arts majors Heather Cloud and Joshua Tavares<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Baumsteiger performing the Sugar Plum Fairy solo<\/li>\n<li>Modern and aerial dance choreographed by Annie Bunker<\/li>\n<li>Tap dance taught by Cheryl Aue<\/li>\n<li>Contemporary pieces by Grady Sullivan, Stephanie Shepherd and Dori Yamada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ticket Information<\/h2>\n<p>The performance is open seating and tickets are $6 general and $4 for students, seniors, children, faculty and staff. <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/depts\/theatre\/tickets\/\">Buy tickets online<\/a> or stop by the Performing Arts Center box office.<\/p>\n<p>Advance ticket purchase is recommended due to the popularity of the event.<\/p>\n<p>For disability accommodation, contact Heidi Veilleux at (808) 933-3209 (V) or (808) 933-3334 (<abbr>TTY<\/abbr>) at least 10 working days prior to the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancers from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> are featured in Great Leaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[78,61,220,14],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-dance","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-performing-arts-center","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142818,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/142818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}