LOCAL BUSINESSES HELP TILT CONTEMPORARY DANCE PERFORM IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Blue Rooster Productions, based on the Big Island, is TILT Contemporary Dance Company's newest corporate sponsor. Blue Rooster's president Les Hershorn donated $200 to help fund TILT's in the schools educational programs. Maui Electric Company continues their support of TILT with a $200 grant to help support the Every Body Dances program for students with learning disabilities.

Both grants will be used to fund TILT's Fall lecture/demonstrations for special education students and at-risk youth in the public schools. The lecture/demonstrations are part of TILT's 2003 performing season that include the FULL TILT concert on November 6 at the Castle Theater.

TILT Contemporary Dance Company has spent the past six years promoting and preserving an American art form - modern dance. Through effective artistic partnerships on Maui and the Mainland TILT has developed new community programs FOOTWORK Dance Film Festival, for example, dance classes for special education students, and progressively ambitious concerts. TILT has been featured on California Connected, a PBS program by station KCET TV Los Angeles, and on the front page of the Business section in the San Francisco Chronicle. ABC TV heard of TILT's educational programs and contacted artistic director Renee Beauvais to find students to feature on their family reality show, SWITCHED.

TILT's primary mission is to promote the art of dance especially American modern dance as an integral part of public discourse and community well-being. TILT provides the community with a variety of services which help unite our community, and connects them to the exciting and changing world of global dance culture. For more information about TILT or its programs call 572-3094, ext.2 or email info@tiltdance.org.

LEF FOUNDATION STEPS UP TO THE PLATE TO FUND NEW ART WORK
Over the past several years funding for the performing arts has become a greater challenge than it used to be, especially for small performing arts groups. The LEF Foundation's efforts reflect a belief in the value of experimentation and in the important role that art and its practice hold in society. LEF has generously donated $10,000 to TILT Contemporary Dance Company for the creation and presentation of Cost of Freedom.

Cost of Freedom was premiered in 1999 at Maui Academy of Arts Brave One Acts. Choreographer Renee Beauvais says the dance has all new choreography and new music by composer Craig Murray. Only the spoken text will remain the same. Cost of Freedom uses letters from Vietnam soldiers to show a glimpse into a soldiers' experience. Cost of Freedom has cultural resonance and timeliness. That's why the LEF Foundation is underwriting the production. I'm deeply grateful for their support says Beauvais. Cost of Freedom will be on the program of the FULL TILT concert on November 6 at the Castle Theater.