Word: pecked
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...CityStep was the product of fortuity. In her undergraduate years, Peck and her peers performed excerpts of an original dance theater production for an assembly of students at the Graham and Parks Elementary School. Following the performance, Peck spontaneously asked for eager volunteers to participate in dance exercises onstage, and the positive response from both students and teachers catalyzed the program’s conception...
...Peck is co-chairing a benefit party for all City-Step alumni in New York this February in hopes of bringing together former CitySteppers from both Harvard and Penn, where the program’s community efforts were expanded in 2004. Though many alumni have lost touch with the organization, Peck hopes that both the event and the program’s new status will help boost the endowment figures...
...Since the program’s inception, Peck has sought to reach the “largest possible” cross section of children and to empower them with the self-confidence and self-expression gleaned from group dance activities...
...vocabulary for CityStep is built on runs, lunges, jumps, leaps, you know, things that kids naturally do. But they’re not just doing steps—they’re dancing with a strong sense of inner tension,” Peck says, pausing as she ponders how to best explain this concept. “It’s the connection between my thoughts and my dancing that is the deeply affirming experience that results in this consonance and strengthened sense of self...
...Peck stops abruptly and asks, “Do you understand what I mean...