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...Peck now stands in the front of the dance studio at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center, surveying the CitySteppers who hope to carry out their mission in the next few months. Garbed in a black cotton long-sleeved shirt and matching sweatpants, Peck nods vigorously with encouragement as the CitySteppers start to break away from the circle...
...Take up the whole space,” Peck says, drawing out her vowels with exaggerated emphasis. “You own this space to go freely—free up your body to really sail through the space...
...space keeps expanding,” Peck continues, now twirling on the tips of her darkly-painted toes. “You can’t believe how graceful you are, moving in and out of these bodies. Free, free, free, free, free, free, free, free!” Leaving her choreography and directing projects in New York for the weekend, Peck returned to her alma mater to instruct a workshop on creativity in dance expression for the budding CityStep teachers. Underneath her wavy mass of dark hair, Peck’s eyes light up behind her glasses...
...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...