About the fundraiser
For the next month I am partnering with The School at TU Dance Center to raise funds to ensure that the school continues to be a home for dance education, supporting scholarships for students and a robust offering of programs for the community.
Details: For new clients only when you book a newborn, children, family, headshot or H.S. Senior photo session with me between July 24th - August 25th, 25% of your session fee will be donated to The School at TU Dance.
When booking, please mention TU DANCE to ensure your session is a part of this fundraiser.
Session price is $400/Includes up to 6 people, each additional person is $25/2 hour session/20 high resolution photos printable to 8x10, password protected gallery with approximately 100 edited images for you to choose your 20 images from. Through your online gallery you will be able to order beautiful prints, wall art, and cards through a professional print house.
There is so much more to this fundraiser.
Please find more information HERE.
To learn more about TU Dance please visit their website HERE
Contact me HERE to book a session or give me a call, cannot wait to get started!
More about my connection to TU Dance and my love of photographing Dance
I was drawn to photography at a very young age because I always felt like an observer rather than a participant. When I received my first camera it felt like a natural extension of my body, and captured the lens through which I had been seeing the world.
My favorite subject to photograph has always been children. What draws me in is the purity, unfiltered joy, and the lack of self consciousness that young people have in front of a camera. I have found over the years photographing my daughter dance has been the same, so it was natural to offer my services to TU Dance. Shooting for The School at TU Dance Center has become one of my favorite projects because I get to capture dancers focused on their own emotions and movements and then portray that beauty to a broader audience through my images. The children at The School are expressing their true selves through their own art, and to marry their art with mine is something I find extremely beautiful.
Toni Pierce-Sands, TU Dance’s Artistic Director and I grew up together at Saint Paul Open School, a small diverse K-12 school that started in 1971 by my mother and other parents, teachers and administrators, who wanted an educational option to the traditional school systems. Through Open School, my mother built a community around her family, welcoming her children’s friends and others to gather at her home. Toni, the dancer friend who I went to see as a child dancing The Nutcracker, became one of those extended family members.
My daughter Lucy, who has been dancing since she was very little, now studies at The School at TU Dance Center. Lucy and I learned about TU Dance through Toni. At TU Dance Center, both Lucy and I were able to find the community we were searching for, a place where Lucy could continue to grow as a dancer and a human. For me, TU Dance is about everyone, individually and as a whole. The reason for starting the school was to provide opportunities to any child to dance no matter what their circumstance or resources are. TU Dance embraces us all and has become a family on its own. A family that we consider ours, and a second home for most - just like my mom’s house was.