Milken Mini Stories: Dance Showcase, Kulam, Beit Midrash Siyyum
Dance Team Has All the Right Moves
The Dance Team performed before a packed house for their annual Dance Showcase, wowing audiences with innovative moves and creative choreography. According to Director Andrew Rincon, this year’s show, “Bloom” has been in development since the summer of 2017. Conceptualized around the many stages of change and inner growth, the show blended the soundtrack and choreography to bring the themes of motivation, reflection, uncertainty, and change to life, while the soloists and interludes threaded together the story seamlessly.
Incorporating a multimedia element this year of graphic design and digital projection syncing with the dancers, echoing their choreography, the show elevated the audiences’ experience to a new level. Rincon noted that while the school-wide performances throughout the year are focused on contemporary movement and commercial numbers, the concert dance environment “allows us to take the dancers and audience on a journey into a deeper body of work.”
Rincon was pleased with the dancers’ performances and noted that seniors Talia Shakib and Kayla Yedidsion guided them into the final number with “stunning strength and grace ...To say that I am proud would be an injustice,” he said. “There are no words to properly articulate how I feel other than, they have truly Bloomed."
Middle School Kulam Group Wraps Up Last Service Learning Outing of Year
The Middle School Next Generation Literacy for Youth Kulam group participated in its last service learning experience with their kindergarten reading buddies at Para Los Niños Elementary School On May 2. They accompanied their buddies to the Central Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library to eat lunch, listen to a lively reading, and read in the Children's Literature section. The group also dropped off five boxes of books and school supplies they gathered over the last month, donating over 300 books. The success of the effort was due to many students and families; in particular, Spencer Davis ’23 played a key leadership role, and both he and Cayla Cohen ’23 gathered the bulk of the books.
Beit Midrash Fellows Celebrated at Siyyum
Faculty, staff, and families gathered to honor the Beit Midrash Fellows at the Siyyum on Friday, March 27. Incorporating the classical Jewish texts they have studied throughout the fellowship, students presented on contemporary social, political, ethical, and personal issues in four sessions. “It's amazing to see how students use their creativity to connect the ancient texts and ideas of Judaism with modern questions and dilemmas,” said Upper School Rabbi David Saiger. The Siyyum culminated with the recognition of the seniors. Each was presented with a gift of books and a rabbi delivered a relevant quote relating to their character.
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