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National Dance Institute's Benefit Performance of Imagine: A Celebration of John Lennon
01/24/2010 - By New York, NY

National Dance Institute's Benefit Performance of Imagine: A Celebration of John Lennon

On January 24, 2010, over 700 guests enjoyed a special encore performance of National Dance Institute’s (NDI) IMAGINE: A Celebration of John Lennon at LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts Concert Hall in Manhattan.

Sgt. Pepper and 100 NDI advanced team dancers performed high-spirited choreography set to iconic Beatles’ music. NDI dancers explored the magic of Lennon’s music as they wove together vignettes of his life with original, energetic choreography.

Highlights of the performance included the excitement and hysteria surrounding the Fab Four’s appearance in America, the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s famous bed-in, and original choreography set to Imagine created with movement inspired by American Sign Language. Emmy and Oscar-winning actress Cloris Leachman and NDI founder Jacques d’Amboise led a tap-dancing chorus line in an original work choreographed by d’Amboise entitled “A Cloris Line,” set to the music When I’m 64.

Special guests in attendance included Yoko Ono, Allegra Kent, Erica Hill, Chris Wragge, Harry Belafonte, David Amram, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tom Hulce and Joe Reinstein. The Leadership Committee for the benefit performance included Chair Liz Hinden, Barbara Fedida Brill, I.B. Charneau, Lauren B. Cramer, Edith Fassberg, Babe Rizzuto, Pam Smilow, Tracy Straus, Rhana Tabouchirani and Ellen Weinstein. The performance of IMAGINE was generously supported by scünci, a division of Conair® Corporation and Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation/Arnold Penner & Larry Perse.

After the performance, NDI dancers had a special backstage visit from Yoko Ono. Ono thanked the children, answered their questions and shared stories about John Lennon. The young dancers presented Ono with the wishes of hundreds of NDI children that will be delivered to the Imagine Peace Tower, an outdoor work of art conceived by Yoko Ono in memory of John Lennon on Viðey Island in Reykjavík, Iceland.

IMAGINE benefitted NDI and celebrated the 25th Anniversary of LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. For more than 20 years, National Dance Institute has partnered with LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, which serves as a home to NDI’s Advanced Team programs. Dancers, ages nine to 15, spend their Saturdays throughout the school year receiving free NDI dance training in LaGuardia High School’s 8th Floor studios. LaGuardia High School Concert Hall serves as the venue for NDI’s annual Event of the Year, a fully staged theatrical event that takes place in June.

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