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Dancing Lions
Chapel Hill Magazine
May/June 2008
After a month-long residency with the National Dance Institute's Bianca Johnson, the entire fourth grade class at Frank Porter Graham Elementary was ready for action — Arts in Action, that is.
Learning For A Lifetime/The Village People
The Durham News
Saturday/Sunday, May 24–25, 2008
Diamond Daniels, top, a fifth grader at Fayetteville Elementary School in Durham, sits on the shoulders of fifth grade teacher Toni Nadiyah Moore.
Dancing into FPG
Chapel Hill Magazine
November/December 2007
North Carolina Arts in Action (NC-AIA) is at it again.
Learning For A Lifetime/Rhythm Academy
The Durham News
Saturday/Sunday, November 3–4, 2007
North Carolina Arts in Action (NC-AIA) is now in partnership with Fayetteville Street Elementary School, exposing fifth graders at the school to the arts through dance.
Carolina Arts in Action
Southern Neighbor
July 2007
For the second year in a row, North Carolina Arts in Action (NCAIA)
is proud to announce the selection of four 4th graders from the NC-AIA pilot program at
Rashkis Elementary to attend the National Dance Institute’s (NDI) Irene Diamond Summer Institute
in New York City.
"All Means All"
The Chapel Hill News
August 22, 2007
Schools focus on preparing a diverse student body
In Living Color
The Chapel Hill Herald
August 22, 2007
About 20 rising fifth- and sixth-graders enrolled at Rashkis Elementary School perform a preview
of their upcoming dance season titled "An African Village"
Jacques d’Amboise receives CHILD Magazine’s 2007 Children’s Champion Award
CHILD Magazine
June/July 2007
Honored for fostering a sense of achievement and self-esteem in schoolchildren through the power of dance.
Rashkis Kids Take Center Stage
Chapel Hill Magazine
March/April 2007
Arts may be taking a hit in some schools across the country, but not at Rashkis Elementary.
Strowd Roses Inc. announces funds recipient
The Daily Tarheel, online exclusive
Friday, October 13, 2006
Recipients include El Centro Latino, N.C. Arts in Action, Project Compassion and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black History and Culture.
Supporters, In Action | PDF
Chapel Hill Magazine, People and Places
September/October 2006
Says NC-AIA Executive Director Lisa Kang. "Ultimately we want to bring this program to the children of North Carolina, but it all began here in Chapel Hill."
Putting on their dancing shoes | PDF
The Chapel Hill Herald
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Spending part of their school year taking lessons every week from a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet just wasn't enough.
Dance is Awesome / 2 Successful Dance Performances | PDF
Maxwell Gazette, A Rashkis Elementary Publication
April 2006
On Thursday, April 27th, we had 2 big dance performances. One was in the afternoon and one was at night. The one in the afternoon was for the whole school, and the one at night was for parents.
Arts in Action | PDF
Maxwell Gazette, A Rashkis Elementary Publication
March 2006
When our class first heard that we were going to be taking dance class, we were all "bummed out" and thought it was going to be boring. But after the first day of dance, everybody changed their mind and now we like going to dance and learning new moves and hanging out with new friends and Kirstie.
Students Learn from a Master | PDF
The Chapel Hill Herald
Saturday, February 11, 2006
"This is a program for every child should have" said Lisa Kang executive director of Arts in Action. "The rich as well as the poor have the right to have the arts in their lives."
Infecting Kids - With Dance Fever | PDF
The News & Observer
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Call it recess meets modern dance. The point is to make kids move, and love doing it.
Arts Group Receives Grants | PDF
The Chapel Hill Herald
February 2006
North Carolina Arts in Action received $5,000 from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and $5,000 from the Mary D.B.T. Semans Foundation for its first in-school dance pilot program.
Woman's goal is to bring dance to state's school kids | PDF
The Chapel Hill News
Sunday, June 12, 2005
It was amazing to see that after three hours of instructions the kids were dancing and loving it, along with 30 teachers." Berger said.