Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts choreographer Mathew Janczewski, center, leads Drama teacher Danielle Pittel's class in a modern dance exercise utilizing a two-way interactive, real-time teaching environment Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Minnetonka Middle School East.
Drama and Study Skills teacher Danielle Pittel, left, participates with her students in the Cowles Center's Distance Learning Program in her Minnetonka Middle School East classroom Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011.
Christ Community Church congregate Brenda Palkert, center, leads just over 30 people in an Easter Global Dance Sunday morning, April 24, in Excelsior.  

Excelsior's Water Street was closed to traffic for a short time between 2nd and 3rd Streets to accommodate church members who participated in a four minute, choreographed dance that was repeated by church groups all over the world and will eventually be accessible by the public on YouTube.
Christ Community Church members and other families watch an Easter Global Dance along Water Street Sunday morning, April 24, in Excelsior.  

Excelsior's Water Street was closed to traffic for a short time between 2nd and 3rd Streets to accommodate about 30 church members who participated in a four minute, choreographed dance that was repeated by church groups all over the world and will eventually be accessible by the public on YouTube.
Christ Community Church members participate in an Easter Global Dance Sunday morning, April 24, in Excelsior.  

Excelsior's Water Street was closed to traffic for a short time between 2nd and 3rd Streets to accommodate church members who participated in a four minute, choreographed dance that was repeated by church groups all over the world and will eventually be accessible by the public on YouTube.
Christ Community Church members participate in an Easter Global Dance Sunday morning, April 24, in Excelsior.

Excelsior's Water Street was closed to traffic for a short time between 2nd and 3rd Streets to accommodate church members who participated in a four minute, choreographed dance that was repeated by church groups all over the world and will eventually be accessible by the public on YouTube.
A panoramic view of the space the Main Street School class uses to tune-up before their Indonesian-instrument and Javanese dance performance at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.  Guest artist and instructor Joko Sutrisno conducts, right, Thursday, Mar. 10, in Hopkins.
Indonesian Sumunar Music & Dance, Gamelan Director Joko Sutrisno, left, engages his Main Street School students through conversation and physical hints Thursday, Mar. 10, in Hopkins.  Joko is at the school as a two-week guest artist and instructor.
An Indonesian Sumunar instrument, called a Gamelan, is struck during a practice performance at Main Street School in Hopkins Thursday, Mar. 10, 2011.
Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts choreographer Mathew Janczewski, center, leads Drama teacher Danielle Pittel's class in a modern dance exercise utilizing a two-way interactive, real-time teaching environment Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Minnetonka Middle School East.
Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts choreographer Mathew Janczewski, center, leads Drama teacher Danielle Pittel's class in a modern dance exercise utilizing a two-way interactive, real-time teaching environment Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Minnetonka Middle School East.
Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts choreographer Mathew Janczewski, center, leads Drama teacher Danielle Pittel's class in a modern dance exercise utilizing a two-way interactive, real-time teaching environment Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Minnetonka Middle School East.
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