Dear Friend,

In this season of gratitude, Malashock Dance has a lot to celebrate! Our new Artistic Director, Christopher K. Morgan, will expand our artistic impact and carry Malashock Dance’s legacy forward with a fresh perspective starting January 2024. Our reach into the community through education programs helps thousands of students thrive because they feel a sense of belonging and joy. We see students of all ages and abilities at our school light up because they are part of a community where they matter. We know that you have also experienced the power of dance and we appreciate your involvement.

Malashock Dance is poised to continue to grow, and we want you to be part of this journey. Together, we innovate, create, learn, and connect with each other. I hope you will consider helping us reach our fundraising goal and ensure Malashock Dance remains a gathering place for artists to create new work, connect with audiences, and offer unique educational opportunities as we move into a new era. 

We believe dance belongs to everyone. 

Yours,

Molly Puryear, Executive Director

Photo: Doug McMinimy

Dancers: Natalia Hill and Lauren Christie

 

 

Free Performance: First Friday at Liberty Station

December 1 at 6:30 pm

FREE EVENT! Join Malashock Dance in our beautiful studio for performances by Malashock Dance Company, Junior Company, and students in our Dance with THISability program. Please let us know if you can make it!

Guests are invited to experience ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station on the First Friday of every month. Meet working artists, discover outdoor public art installations, wander and explore all that ARTS DISTRICT has to offer at historic Liberty Station. 

 

Tickets on Sale: Everyday Dances III

January 25-28, 2024

Everyday Dances III is a concert of ten new, short choreographic works by visionary choreographers based in San Diego, performed by the renowned Malashock Dance Company.

Malashock Dance produces the annual “Everyday Dances” concert to engage the community in discovering the wide variety of San Diego-based dance artists who are poised to share their powerful creative voices; demonstrate leadership; and fulfill their artistic vision in collaboration with a community of dance makers and professional dancers.

Choreographers: Viviana Alcazar, Matthew Armstrong, Gary Champi, Megan Curet, sol de la rosa, John Malashock, Jessica Rabanzo-Flores, Khamla Somphanh, Gina Bolles-Sorensen and Kyle Sorensen, and Chelsea Zeffiro. 

 

Spring Session Registration is Open!

Spring Session Youth Classes begin January 8, 2024.

Registration is now available through our new registration system!

For questions or help choosing levels please contact school director, Kaely Garred.

New Registration System for Adult Classes

Malashock Dance is launching a new and improved registration system for both youth and adult classes!

Registration for adult classes will move to the new platform on January 1, 2024.

Set up your account now to make sure you're ready for the change!

 
 

Tis the Season of Gratitude!
 

We extend a heartfelt thank you to NTC Foundation's Liberty School Program and the students at Dewey Elementary for wrapping up another incredible season!

We also want to thank our incredible Teaching Artist, Laray Egea-Saez for cultivating a space where students are able to embrace their authentic selves, and light up with creative expression!

 
 
 

Donate today. Spread the joy and passion of dance.

Support our community during this season of giving. We need to raise $35,000 during our end-of-year campaign. We're already 25% of the way there! Donations of any amount will provide opportunities for anyone to have meaningful experien. Check out our impact report to learn more about how your gift helps illuminate the power of dance. 

Thank you for supporting the Junior Company 

Our Junior Company fundraising goal is to raise $1800 to attend the San Diego Youth Dance Festival and purchase new team gear. We're already 26% of the way there, having raised $466.44. Thank you Jennifer Burkhart, Angela Carone, Gayle Kauihou, Leah Panos, Andrea Hanson, Jessica Hanson York, & Toni Robin.

 

Joan Nelson (1939-2023)

Remembering Joani Nelson

Enhancing the lives of those with whom she came into contact, and being a mentor to young adults sums up Joani's legacy. Her mantra being: "Decide what you want to do and then make it happen".


Joani's life highlights included her enjoyment in learning about other cultures and ways of life during her travels to 107 countries, and in moving to California in 1989. While walking on the beach near her home in the La Jolla Shores neighborhood of San Diego, she'd say while pinching herself, "honey, I can't believe I live here".


In the latter half of her life, Joani's fulfillment came from her work as a hotel concierge, membership in the Les Clefs d'Or, presiding as President of the San Diego Concierge Association and working as a Special Event Planner with the San Diego Symphony.

Her mentoring of young men and women students from Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, China, South Korea, Russia and Brazil with the UCSD English Language Institute for the last seven years of her life gave Joani an international extended family of incredible young people, who so enriched her life and solidified how similar most of us are in the things we want from life. She cherished the relationships formed with her extended family's "sons and daughters".


She demonstrated great generosity by leaving a bequest to Malashock Dance. 

Joani's enthusiastic presence and participation with Malashock Dance will be greatly missed.

 

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR 2023 DONORS 

John Alexander and John Lipsey, Steve Alexander, Edie Andrew Akita, Richard and Margo Wilding Avery, Phylaine Bemel, Maria Benjamin, Rodney Biggs, Marla Bingham, Blythe and Rob Barton, Allison Boles, Dorcy/Boone Family Trust, Susan Booth, Dan Breske, George Buck, Mr. Gerard Buckley, Erica Buechner, Jennifer Burkhart, Linda Burritt, California Arts Council, Jim Carmody, Angela Carone, Araceli Carrera, Tina Carreras, Caitlin Chapman, Colette Christie, Richard Clarke, Katherine Collins, Hannah Cook, Darrin Corbin, Karen Delaurier and Oliver McElroy in memory of Edgar  E. Hardy, Madison Devine, Shirley Dunbar, Nikki Dunnan, Corey Fayman, Anne Fee, Bob and Debbie Fellman, Pat Finn, Barbara Fitzsimmons, Michael and Susanna Flaster, Susan Flieder, Glyn Fricker, Zdenka Fronek, Steve Gamp, Sharon Gao, Kimberly Garred, Joyce Gattas, Nancy and Mike Glynn, Don and Dale Goldman, Linda and Harris Goldman, Laurie Gore, Diana Griggs, Mary McGroarty & Christopher Smith, James Grutkowski, Anonymous, Andrea Hanson, Paul Henkart and Nancy Tomich, The Hunter Family Trust Charitable Fund, Mark & Nance Hunter, Gay Hybertsen, Lilian Ibarra, Irwin and Joan Jacobs, Thesa Jolly, Alara Jones, Joan Kanter and George Buck, Gayle Kauihou, Brenna Kelly, Michael Kirsch, Ms. Elizabeth Klugh, Stephen La Dow, John Lamberti, Evelyn Olson and Bill Lamden, Dorothea Laub, Kelly Hoffman, Jean Linder, Jeffrey and Sheila Lipinsky, Anni Lipper, Hamilton Loeb, Kelly Loomis, Patricia Low and Mark Majette, John & Nina and Nina Malashock, Greg and Julianne Markow, Ms. Katy McDonald, Cheryl & Jim McIlhon, Thomas Morgan, Clay and Karen Myers-Bowman, Sidney A Negrillo, NTC Foundation, Patricia O'Connor, David Ogilvy, Victoria Ojeda, Neil Osborne, Leah Panos, June Park, Nancy Parrett, Monica Paul, Susana Peredo Swap, Mary and John David Peters, Paul Pietranico, Karla Morrell, Molly Glynn Puryear and Travis Kemp, Elizabeth Ramos, Samantha Ramos, Kathleen Rike, toni robin, Stephen Samuels, San Diego Folk Heritage, Sheryl Scarano, Pamela Scheidt, Jim Schuette, Ronald and Anne Simon, Kim Simpson, Charlene Simpson, Ms. Tracy Skaddan, Chris Smith, Celina Speck, Russ Sperling, Marilyn Stenvall, Roger Stern, Connie Strohbehn Kaczmarczyk, Ms. Lynn Susholtz, Lynn Susholtz, Lucie Leonard, Wanda Tong Corbin, Richard Trujillo, Beth Venkataraman, Luke Vickrey, Catherine Sweet, Ms. Steven Ward, Terry A Wilson, Peter Woodbury, Ms. Amy Wrench, Bonnie Wright, Matty Wuest, Keith York and Jessica Hanson York, Colette York, Ms. Jessica Hanson York, Zable Foundation, Pam Zimbalist

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

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