Dancing4Kids

Dancing4Kids © "Promoting Intercultural Understanding Through Dance and Art"

D4K helps children in need around the world by raising funds through music/dance/art events and by promoting intercultural understanding

Members

  • Dee
  • Michael Di Stasio
  • wada hiroharu
  • Kakraba Tenso
  • Chrissi Theodorakakos
  • Red Baklava
  • usato tomura
  • Matthew Thomas Koechlin
  • AFRA
  • StuartO
  • Monique van Kerkhof
  • Nana Kinno
  • Julie M. Harrison
  • Dancing4Kids
  • yuzuru
  • akitsugu kemmotsu
  • Christian Martinu
  • Yutaka Onoda
  • Fortunate Koma
  • Lynne Charles

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What the Media writes about us:

Mammoth Kids Magazine - Dancing4Kids arranged an exquisite interview between Patrick Chamusso and Mammoth Kids for their latest issue dedicated to Peace. Photographs featured were shot by our official photographer Red Baklava at the Two Sisters in South Africa.


Japan Times - article covering our Dancing4Kids variety Show July 2009
We thank the Japan Times for taking the time to join our show and do a great coverage about our event!

Japan Times article D4K Variety show 2009
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Dancing4Kids interview by Metropolis- Japan's No 1 English magazine:
Visit the "News" tab for more details!
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Information about Dancing4Kids

D4K Promo


UPCOMING EVENTS

D4K P O D C A S T
Listen to our unique Dancing4Kids PODCAST!!!!!!! Our new podcast can be found under the music section and you may start it and stop it at any time. You can also select the parts you wish to listen to. We thank Stuart-O once again for putting this together and for his outstanding work! We also thank the incredible Human Beat Box AFRA, for giving us our own "Dancing4Kids" unique beat sound and for being such a wonderful friend!!!!

Who we are:

Dancing 4 Kids (D4K), originally named Dancing 4 Aids Orphans (D4AO), was founded by a world renowned ballet dancer, Lynne Charles in 2007. Having enjoyed an illustrious career as an international ballerina, Lynne Charles decided to offer her talents to promote cultural and artistic exchange worldwide for charitable purposes.

Since its inception, D4K has been providing talented artists from all over the world the chance to join together to stage outstanding dance events. These valuable opportunities for cultural exchange have been contributing to the promotion of intercultural exchange as well as developing a better world for us all.

Proceeds from our events are significantly helping children in need around the world and successfully enriching their lives. With people everywhere in desperate need of assistance, and millions of innocent children suffering, our work will never end. “Every child deserves the chance to live, so help us to help them.”

Our Image & Values:

D4K is a small, but dynamic, culturally diverse group of talented and caring individuals located in different countries around the world. Always thinking outside the box enables us to:

- implement the best means to meet the needs of children globally as well as the organizations that support them
- improve children’s lives and aim to end their suffering
- promote the appreciation of culture and arts using dance as our primary vehicle

For general information about Dancing4Kids and achievements in 2008 please click below:
(English)Dancing4Kids general info & achievements.pdf
日本語は下記PDFファイル参照
(Japanese)D4K DescriptionJap.pdf

How you can help!!
How you can help Dancing4Kids and the children of Two Sisters.pdf

We are members and support the activities of the South Africa Chamber of Commerce Japan (SACCJ).To become a member please click below:




Corporate Sponsors of 2009:














Support and Collaborations during 2009:

Businesses
AVEX Dance Master - HumanFactory
United Colors of Benetton Japan
ROOIBOS Mktg Japan
Beat'n Box English Language School
Baby Loves Disco Japan
37 Frames photography
Boudoir Spa
Fifty Seven Bar- Restaurant

MEDIA
Tokyo Metropolis magazine
The Japan Times
JSELECT Magazine
Mammoth Kids Magazine

ARTISTS
AFRA
Stuart-O
Austrian Ballet Company - Tokyo
Red Baklava
Usato Tomura
Mondesign - Monique Van Kerkhof
Kopi Kopenhagen
Tenso Kakraba
Hanayo Sato

NON-PROFITS
Two Sisters organization (South Africa)
South African Chamber of Commerce Japan
Living Dreams Japan
Rock Challenge Japan
Stevia Nao
Manna773 Factory

Our activities are made to support the children from Two Sisters Organisation in South Africa. Since the beginning of 2009 we are the official representatives of the Two Sisters in Japan. We have also started numerous projects for the benefit of orphans and abused children in Japan through our collaborations with NPO Living Dreams Japan.

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More photos from our members

Dancing For AIDS Orphans - Lynne Charles runs our first event for the benefit of AIDS orphans in 2007

D4OA - Previous Event & Sponsors. Yokohama, Japan 2007

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Dancing4Kids Organisation Members

Members involved in all activities since 2008:

Chrissi Theodorakakos
Managing Director
Please contact regarding Funding, Events, Project Management, Website Strategy, PR/Media & all matters regarding Dancing4Kids events.
Email: chrissi@cocoa.ocn.ne.jp

Tremell E. Brown (aka Red Baklava)
Official Dancing4Kids Photographer / Technical Consultant
www.RedBaklava.com
Art and commercial photography. Founder of “The Indie Photographic Squad” of San Antonio.
Please contact regarding all photo materials and web design
Email: red_baklava@yahoo.com


Stuart-O

Events - performer, co-producer, MC、broadcasting, stage director
www.myspace.com/alteredshots
www.metropolis.co.jp/podcast/default.asp
Email: stuqvoice@yahoo.co.jp

Julie Harrison
New contacts Director
Please contact regarding Japanese communications, translation/interpretation and new enquiries in Japanese.
Email: marlinjulieharrison@yahoo.co.jp

Lucie Mori
Lifestyle/stress management consultant & Healer, through yoga and other techniques
Please contact regarding workshops involving challenged children in Tokyo
Email:lucie@rondo.ocn.ne.jp

Marco Narducci
Psychologist, conducting "Impromptu Drama Therapy" and "Creative-Art Therapy"
Please contact regarding workshops involving challenged children in Tokyo
Email:mdardux@yahoo.com

Yuzuru Kushida
Volunteer - Stage Manager, Deputy Project Manager
Please contact regarding, events and campaign activities.
Email: yurujoe@yahoo.co.jp

Tomoya Hiraishi
Volunteer - Waseda University Student
Please contact regarding Japanese web page development, events and activities.
Email: suquippy@gmail.com


Members involved in Dancing 4 AIDS Orphans Performance in 2007:

Lynne Charles
Founder and Artistic Director
Email: lnnlynne9@aol.com

Teresa Harrow
PR & Marketing of D4AO
Email: teresaharrow@yahoo.co.uk

Shopping for the benefit of the children of Two Sisters orphanage

Usato Tomura designs for Dancing4Kids
The artist who created Toyota's mascot is now creating for us. Variety items based on these designs are being produced and will be sold through this website and during our events. Our first shop will be set up on July 24th during our Dancing4Kids all-in-one variety performance. Check out the details above and ..DONT'T MISS IT!!!!


Iron Prints Instructions - check links below (copy and paste links to your browser)

濃い下地用 裏が青
http://www.saprina.com/IRONBuse.html

淡い下地用 裏が赤
http://www.saprina.com/IRONWuse.html

ホームページ
http://oceana.hp.infoseek.co.jp/iron.shtml

Blog Posts

Dancing4Kids

The story of our day with Patrick Chamusso and the children of Two Sisters

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Photo by: Red Baklava

Here is the day that marked the beginning of the work we started just a year ago.. Written by Red Baklava who also photographed some very special images that have been exhibited in the USA and Japan with great success.… Continue

Posted by Dancing4Kids on February 27, 2009 at 11:30am

Dancing4Kids

Burning Truths in "Catch a Fire" by the Washington Post

A Freedom Fighter Is Born In Potent Tale of Apartheid

By Desson Thomson, Washington Post Staff Writer - Friday, October 27, 2006

What's most riveting about "Catch a Fire" is the truth from which it springs...
To read more please click here

Posted by Dancing4Kids on April 30, 2008 at 11:00am

Red Baklava

D4K & Amnesty International's- "Artists for Amnesty" Event in Los Angeles




On April 8th, Dancing 4 Kids partnered with Amnesty International's - "Artists for Amnesty" in Los Angeles, Ca. at an event to raise awareness of the work of Patrick Chamusso & The Two Sisters Orphanage in South Africa. The event was held to focus on the role Two… Continue

Posted by Red Baklava on April 20, 2008 at 10:06pm — 1 Comment

About Patrick Chamusso and the Two Sisters

We support the Two Sisters and Patrick Chamusso, the founder and one of the people we cannot forget since my colleague (Tremell) and I (Chrissi) met him in February 2008 in White River-South Africa. He calls himself "an ordinary man" but after meeting him and his 140 children it seems that from an ordinary person come the greatest of things.. strength, compassion, love, unselfishness, caring.. just to name a few. The same goes to all those wonderful people that volunteer their services to help the children of the Two Sisters, and the same goes to all those how simply care. We thank Patrick and the Two Sisters board for letting us visit the orphanage and for making this a lifechanging experience to us.

Please visit the Two Sisters website on:
www.twosisters.org.za to learn more about Patrick, the Two Sisters and ways to help them if you can and want.

Below is a video clip from Catch a Fire.

 
 

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Created by Dancing4Kids Sep 19, 2008 at 10:12am. Last updated by Dancing4Kids Mar 18.

Peter & The Wolf

One of the events we will be producing is the classic dance version of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter & The Wolf. Below you can catch an interesting beatboxing flute version of it.. enjoy!!

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