Been There, Danced That: From Downtown to the World
It was a single photo that sparked the idea. Sofia Vasquez, 7, a Downtown Dance Factory student headed to Spain, posted a picture of herself doing a ballet stretch on the moving walkway at JFK Airport. Hers was one of many destinations for Dance Factory students last summer, from Pier 25 to Paris, so the school’s owners, Hanne Larsen and Melanie Zrehen, put out a call to their kids, asking them to make snaps of themselves dancing—wherever. The result: more than 100 Instagram submissions. Those photos became a display in the school’s lobby, greeting the students now home and ready to start a new semester of dancing. Here are just a few.