Welcome 2023!

Happy New Year to you and your family! As we begin 2023, Movement Arts Atlanta looks forward to another semester of service celebrating the joy of dance!

Classes for children and adults have begun, however, MAA welcomes new students throughout the season and would be happy to talk to you about what classes would be a good fit for you and/or your child. Here is a listing of classes with schedules and descriptions.

Plans for the Annual Student Recital are underway! This year’s ballet will be Pollinator’s Parade, a sweet and joyful welcoming of spring by Mother Nature and all her helpers. The performance will be Saturday, May 20 at 3:00 pm and will be open to the public, location is to be determined. Admission is free. Even if you are not a student of MAA you are absolutely welcome to attend. The performance is family friendly and is a delightful opportunity for children to learn to be good audience members.

MAA’s major arts project, A Time with Isadora, has several events in the first half of the year. Documentary premiers will take place in Athens and Atlanta. The Athens premier will be on Saturday, February 25 at 7:00 pm at Ciné and the Atlanta premier will be on Sunday, March 19 at 3:30 pm at The Plaza Theatre. This screening is also a part of the Atlanta Preservation Center‘s A Phoenix Flies: A Celebration of Atlanta’s Historic Sites. The dance works that are a part of the project will be a part of the Inman Park Dance Festival which is a program of the Inman Park Festival and Tour of Homes on Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30 at 4:00 pm at the Trolley Barn. This performance is free and open to the public. To complete the cycle of the project, planning for a site specific performance in the Olmsted Linear Parks is underway. Look for this in May.

2022-2023 Season Schedule and Programs

The 2022-2023 Season for Movement Arts Atlanta will begin on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. The season will offer classes in Kinderdance, Ballet for children and adults and Modern. There will also be the continuation of MAA’s first major arts project, A Time with Isadora, with the presentation of a performance and documentary film. MAA is also looking forward to developing its Outreach Performance Program with community performances.

Class registration will be open by the end of July. Several benefits of MAA’s classes include professional instruction, small class size and all-inclusive pricing. MAA’s director, Carolyn Stine McLaughlin, has more than 25 years of experience teaching and managing arts projects. The majority of MAA’s classes are limited to six students, well below the area average enrollment. All-inclusive pricing is unique. Registration, tuition and participation in the Annual Student Recital (costumes, tickets, etc.) are included in the annual tuition rate which is payable in two instalments.

A Time with Isadora, which examines the way one artist influences many, will present an evening of dance and discussion on Thursday, September 29, 7:00 pm at The Trolley Barn. The evening will include an historic Ducan, and Limón works and premiers by Atlanta area choreographers; Carolyn Stine McLaughlin, Douglas Scott and George Staib. Later in the fall, there will be a screening of the documentary made about the project.

The Outreach Performance Program gives the students of MAA’s class to go out into the community to perform. MAA is in the process of working with Jewish Home Life to organize fall performances for the residents of their community.