{"id":21854,"date":"2011-04-07T20:58:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=21854"},"modified":"2011-04-07T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:58:21","slug":"rbw-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/rbw-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancers help raise funds for Wilson Auditorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11april\/h2th.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/>Two Clinton county high school seniors<!--more--> will bring the art they have honed for a combined 20 years to the Rodney B. Wilson Auditorium stage on April 15. St. Johns senior David Pastula and Laingsburg senior Lea-Janell Mitchell and the cast of Happendance 2 will present an evening of contemporary concert dance in support of the auditorium renovation.<br \/>\nPastula has pursued many pastimes including hockey, cross-country, band, science Oympiad and dance. Previously a member of the Children&#8217;s Ballet Theatre of Michigan, David expanded his dance experience to include contemporary dance.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is a completely different way of moving,&#8221; says Pastula. &#8220;This kind of training builds great physical strength and helps with all kinds of athleticism. Plus, it&#8217;s great to bring the show to St. Johns to support the auditorium renovation.&#8221; Pastula will study astrophysics at MSU this fall and plans to dance for life.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11april\/h2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nFor Mitchell, contemporary dance is all about expression. &#8220;This lets me explore dance more emotionally,&#8221; says Mitchell. &#8220;It gives me a lot of room to express myself and to really understand the powerful force dance can be.&#8221; Mitchell currently dances with two pre-professional companies, Happendance 2 and the Children&#8217;s Ballet Theatre of Michigan, and will study dance at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford.<br \/>\nHappendance 2 is a select group of dancers ranging from 12 to 18 years old. Mentored by the Happendance Professional Company, the junior company is dedicated to learning and performing a variety of dance styles.<br \/>\nCatch the concert Friday, April 15 at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the door for $5 (children under 5 admitted free). Proceeds will be split between the Wilson Auditorium Renovation Project and Happendance 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Clinton county high school seniors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}