Member Spotlight: Lesole’s Dance Project
We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest member, an organization based out of Maryland! Lesole’s Dance Project was founded by Lesole Z. Maine in 2003. The company of six dancers was the 2003 grant recipient of The Washington Post’s Bringing the Arts to Our Community, and in 2007 was nominated for the Emerging Performer/Group at the Metro DC Dance Awards. The company creates and performs works that highlight the unique qualities of contemporary modern and Afro-Fusion dance and provides educational residency programs on the movement and history of popular Traditional South African dances such as Gumboots, Indlamu and Panstula