It's Been Awhile!

I suppose the best way to re-gain connections is to jump in, right?

I have not met some of you (namely, the Linder in-laws) but I've especialy enjoyed paroozing photos of you (especially the beautiful babies) from Kay's Memorial Weekend and other such pictures.

For those of you whom I have not met, I'm Kendra, Bill's step-daughter, part of the Holst clan. I just graduated from the University of Minnesota with my BFA in dance performance and recently relocated to Boston, MA. I've enjoyed reading everyone's blogs and checking out the links on the right.

I was traveling with a Minneapolis based Worship group called Global Worship Movement (www.globalworshipmovement.org) in Trinidad and Tobago during Kay's Memorial Weekend, and was very sad to miss it. Both Bill and my mom sharred some great pictures and stories from the time in the hills, and I loved the memory book that Barb made with Mary's poem and Bills photos.

I knew upon graduation that I was going to be moving to either Boston, NY, Philly or San Francisco to pursue a modern dance performance/teaching/choreographing career. After my signigicant other, Matt, was offered an excellent graduate/phD package for Music History from Harvard, we both decided that Boston was the winning city. (Our four year anniversary is coming up early Oct...but we are not rushing into a wedding anytime soon). I've been in Boston for almost a month now, and am really loving the newness of it all.

I was hired as the Site Manager/Lead Teacher with the Boston Ballet's Taking Steps Program, which is a community outreach program that sends free profesional dance instruction (modern, ballet, world forms, nutrition and history) into the inner city schools of Boston. Right now, there are only two sites, and I was hired to work with the Charlestown Middle School. It's very part time (twice a week) but I've loved getting to know the kids and teaching in the public school system. I am also going to start working with a company called lululemon (www.lululemon.com) in the Prudential Center, downtown Boston. They speicalize in activewear clothing and personal empowerment for it's clients. I love it because the company pays for my professional dance classes around the city to wear their clothes and talk with other dancers about the clothing line...that means free dance class for me, and I get benefits..every dancers dream! :)

I had a big audition yesterday for 25 companies in Boston, which may lead to some part time company or project based gigs, or it may not! Ah, the joys of being a performer. Eventually I want to get my masters in choreography so I can teach at the University level and have my own dance company, but that will come in the future.

My dance website is www.kendraheithoff.com, if you want to see some updated photos....it's my dance site, so it's not that exciting, but you can contact me if you want to hire me! ha. Just thought it would be fun to give you that.

I'll be checking the site to see some more posts from the rest of you. Kudos to all who got the site up and going. Great idea!

Love and Peace to all,

Kendra