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The Kennedy Dancers is a non-profit Jersey City Based Professional, American Dance Company established in 1976 with a mission of bringing high quality dance training and professional performance opportunities to the NY/NJ Metro area.  Since it's inception, the company has grown to responds to the community's special needs serving low income/at risk/incarcerated teens/senior citizens through diverse dance classes offering fun/fitness/performance opportunities.

The company was founded by Artistic Director Diane Dragone in 1976, to bring high quality dance performances to Jersey City, greater Hudson County, and the tri-state area. Since it's inception, the company has responded to needs in the community, and has grown to include a community dance school, dance programs in local public school systems, including programming designed specifically for the learning disabled, physically challenged and urban youth, dance programs for the elderly, and Dance Vista, a cable television program focusing on emerging women and minority dance artists.


The professional dance troupe performs a regular season each year in and around its home base, Jersey City. Each year the company reaches 6,500 through its public performances, with an additional 2,000 reached through touring performances. Kennedy Dancers tours have ranged the mid-Atlantic coast, from New England to Washington, DC. Video footage of the company has also been shown in international venues in France, Spain, Malta, Germany and Austria. Additionally, the Kennedy Dancers' performance of Artistic Director Diane Dragone's Variations on a Folk Song: Giles and Josephine, a work which portrays the American immigration.

 

Diane Dragone

 

New Jersey University certified teacher of dance by NJ Department of Education.  Taught special education dance 1984-1992 at Hudson County Schools of Technology.  Performer/Teacher/Choreographer Regional and National Broadway Tours and North Jersey Dance Company.  Frequent guest teacher at several grammar/high schools and universities.  Executive producer of award winning Dance Vista cable telelvision program-now in its 13th season.  Artistic director/choreographer for the Kennedy Dancers.

 
 

Kennedy Dancers Board of Directors

 

Kennedy Dancers Board of Directors

    
Name                     Office Held    Residence               Business Affiliation or Special Interest
           

Diane Dragone        President       Jersey City, NJ        Executive & Artistic Director of KennedyDancers,     Choreographer

Guy Catrillo             Chairman       Jersey City, NJ        Public Relations Consultant,        Musician,
                                                                                President of JC Dante Alighieri Assoc.

James DiGesu           Trustee          NYC, NY                Vice President Bank of New York

Michael Warmuth      Trustee        Oxford, NJ             CEO of East Coast Light & Sound Productions

Maryann Serino        Trustee         N. Plainfield, NJ      Attorney &  Partner of Bloom & Campbell

Terry Dehere            Trustee        Jersey City, NJ         Professional Basketball Player

                                                                                  Vice President of the Jersey City Board of Education, & Restaurant owner
                   
Advisory Board
                 
Peter Varsalona, Esq.    Advisor        Jersey City, NJ        Attorney & Former Chief Prosecutor City of Jersey City

Tom Horan                  Advisor         Jersey City, NJ        Director and Producer of  The Kennedy Dancers Videos & Dance Vista, 

                                                                                   Special Assistant/Media/ Jersey City Public Schools & Prog Director JC1TV Educational Television

Debbie Davis                Advisor        Jersey City, NJ        Real Estate Develepor

Leonia Beldini               Advisor        Jersey City, NJ        Former Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, NJ

Pat Bryant                    Advisor        Jersey City, NJ        Associate Superintendent  of Early Childhood Education
                                                                                               Jersey City Public Schools

Fred Bridges                 Advisor        Jersey City, NJ        Vice President of McGraw Hill


Richard Dwyer              Advisor        Jersey City, NJ        Regional Manager of Public Affairs for PSE&G

Virginia Tacon               Advisor        Jersey City, NJ        Vice President. of Eclipse Promotions & Productions
                   
                   
Special Advisory Board
                 
Audrey Ross                 Advisor        Manhattan              Dance Publicist/Audrey Ross Publicity

Maher Benham             Advisor        Manhattan               Principal Dancer/Martha Graham Co., 
                                                                             Choreographer & Founder Coyote Dance Company

 

 

Kennedy Dancers Repertory Ctr.

 79 Central Ave,
Jersey City, NJ 07306

(201)659-2190 

email:

kennedydancers@aol.com

 

   

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