Happy Dance Birthday to You! We exist because you were born to dance 💃🏻 (and chose us to dance with 👯♀️).
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SUNMI Ballet turns 5! Whoo hooo! And we can’t wait to celebrate with you! Please join us as we let loose and enjoy our community.
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June 13th 3pm-6pm
♥️ Bounce house
♥️ Sang Kee Duck House
♥️ Face Painting
♥️ Live DJ Mixson
♥️ Prizes
♥️ Adult Bubbles 🥂
And lots of 💓💃🏻🪩
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RSVP link in bio. Special thanks to our sponsors @asianartsphilly@ydhomeusa
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“People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
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Growing up I felt lonely. As a Korean Adoptee I was grieving a lot of unspoken/unspeakable loss- even at the age of 2. Living in an orphanage has a built in loneliness that is like swallowing a shadow.
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At age 10, I found dance and poured my unspoken grief and happiness into movement and expression. 4 decades later, I’m proud that I’m able to create a pathway or home for other people to connect to their body, emotions and community around them.
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Thank you 🙏 to @fox29philly for spotlighting @balletsunmi in your “215” segment.
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There simply are not enough words for everything we feel. This is where art is so powerful for the individual and the collective. The journey of knowing an art form’s rules so you can learn how to use that art form - to bend into your own expression. You have to practice creativity to allow for deeper expression.
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I teach ballet. There are A Lot (a lot) of rules in ballet - a lot 😉 But there’s also knowing the rules so you can bend, break or reinforce them. That’s fun! That’s agency and creativity coming together over time.
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No instant pot cooking here 😜 just some creative wiggling inspired from decades of rule following.
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Join Us for a Magical adventures where campers explore folk stories in the morning, then discover their bodies’ unique movement with ballet, tap, acrobatics and stretching. Lunch and playtime at the RailPark. Then in the afternoon they make props and dream up magical worlds to dance in, led by Moore College of Art Honor Student in the Arts Leadership Program, Wren Lanza.
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Register today! DM for more information.
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Bringing Joy 🤩 We love that our children open new adventures, experiences and friendships to us as parents and communities.
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Our parents shine bright in supporting their children by showing (dancing) up. Huge shout out of love for our parents. We couldn’t do it without you 😍.
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Joy. Dance brings joy 🤩There aren’t enough words to express our thoughts and feelings. Dance can fill in that gap where words just fall short.
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It truly is a gift to feel each other’s energy and heart coming together 💃🏻🕺🏽👯♀️
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Performance Team Families choreographed a dance together and then performed them with their dancer. It was such a fun night celebrating love and happiness.
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Our performance team is by invitation only and is designed for dancers who want to explore more performance opportunities, mentorship experiences and increase their technical abilities. Dancers on Performance Team take a minimum of 4 classes a week and dance in 4 outreach community events.
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Happy Spring ☀️💐
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Better together 🫶🏽♥️ A plea 😉 from our Director, SunMi @sunmispeaks to be better together.
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Our annual showcase is coming up May 30th and 31st. We need parent volunteers to come alongside to love on the students through checking people in, taking tickets, sitting with kids classes while they wait to go on stage and setting up the theatre. Please, please don’t hesitate to share a gift you have that’s not on our list.
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Families you’ll receive an email with a Google sign up. We can’t wait to come together to make an incredible joyful experience for our entire community.
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Place a 🌟 in comments if you feel the love for community arts to keep thriving together.
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An original 75 minute ballet created by @sunmispeaks featuring a Moon Princess and a Celestial Pirate who waltz through big emotions like bravery, envy, empathy, fear and ultimately compassion to find the power of forging friendships through imperfect situations.
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Come celebrate SUNMI Ballet students as they unfold this enchanted tale of friendship and love. We would love to have you as our guests.
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Moore College of Art
May 30th 4-5:30 pm
May 31st 1-2:30 pm
Ticket link in comments 🎟️
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t’s not just a camp. It’s a place for deep connections and emerging creativity using ballet as a tool to engage students to discover deeper solutions.
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Our curriculums focus on helping students be solutions based using:
🔥determination
🧞♀️creativity & imagination
👯♀️ support
Ballet Innovations Camp is shaping the future story tellers in ballet. The camp has ballet and stretching in the morning. Lunch at the RailPark and afternoon is spent guiding students to come up with their own ballet story to present to parents on Friday.
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Register Today! June 29-July 3 Ages 8-12
9 am - 3 pm
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This photo shoot was only 3 years ago! So much has shifted in my body in just 3 years. I’m slated for a bi-lateral hip replacement next summer- from the impact of:
1. Ankylosing Spondylitis (rheumatoid arthritis autoimmune disorder where the body fuses the spine and impacts the hips).
2. Hip Dysplasia (really loose hips, which gave me a huge range of motion but also deteriorated the hip joint).
3. One year ago, wearing a boot for 3 months to heal my fractured foot (caused from pain in my spine while landing from playing paddle ball on the beach 😂). The boot was very heavy and I continued teaching while wearing the boot causing more pressure on my hips.
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All of this to serve as a reminder to soak up ☀️as much as you can - and be so grateful to your body for showing up in all the ways that allow you to share your expressions with the people you love ❤️
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Special Thank you to 📸: @foxulee_photography for sharing his gift of photography with Philadelphia
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Building trust 🤝is vital to get students to not just “buy into” being instructed- BUT so ultimately they trust themselves and their instruments: their body, their hearts & their minds. This builds their confidence ✨
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Thank you for a great photo shoot 📸 @pillaphoto on location @therailpark
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The teens listen and observe, then they strike the pose. Trying to get heads, arms and legs pointed at the same angle is what gives the powerful effect of architecture in space. We love seeing the city shining so beautifully behind the dancers- illuminating their lovely technique and strength.
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Our purpose ♥️ is to create relevant, age appropriate and representative dance classes that understand the student as an entire human being- growing them from inside out and bottom up.
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Relevant: After 25 years of teaching, our Director SunMi, built a curriculum that fits into children’s lives by coming alongside them - but not dominating their time. Classes are 1 hour 2 times a week on average. There’s no time wasted in those classes with a focus on integration of mind, body and heart.
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Age Appropriate: We challenge children’s focus perceptions to help raise their standard of what focused physical activity looks like, while keeping days of classes and times spread out to meet city families densely scheduled lives.
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Representative: We believe representation has lasting impact for overall thriving. Our showcases and performances focus on universal themes that are inclusive through representing the community we live in and originated from. This means we create non-Eurocentric original ballets to expand students understanding of how they see themselves in the present and future of dance.
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Summer classes are registering now. Please join us as we dance together creating future leaders!
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📸: @pillaphoto
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