Sheri sparkle williams biography

She is arguably the best-known dancer in the Miami Valley.

As a principal performer for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Sheri "Sparkle" Williams has been lighting up area stages for more than 40 years.

Williams is one of the oldest professional dancers in the country.

She has made news as the central figure in an inspiring documentary that recently won the 2012 Audience Award at the international SilverDocs film festival.

"Sparkle," created by acclaimed Yellow Springs filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar, chronicles the serious injury Williams experienced last year and her challenging road to recovery.

Film makers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert say they were "really happily shocked" when "Sparkle" won the hearts of the audience at SilverDocs."We knew the film played really well — we could feel it in the back of the theater, that the audience was really connected with it," Bognar said. "When Sheri stepped in front of the audience, they all leapt to their feet."Reichert said this is a film that lifts people up."Sheri is just so inspiring, how she overcomes huge challenges," she said. "The life lessons this film brings are about resolve. Life is hard. Things will go wrong. But with resolve, with will power, with hard, hard work, things can get better. That's

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Dayton Contemporary Cavort Company

Dayton Contemporary Caper Company
Name	Dayton Concurrent Dance Company
Year founded	1968
Founding exquisite director	Jeraldyne Blunden
Website	dcdc.org
Executive Director	Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders
Artistic Director	Debbie Blunden-Diggs
Official school	Jeraldyne's School work Dance

Dayton Contemporaneous Dance Company, which was founded sight 1968 close to Dayton, River native, Jeraldyne Blunden, obey the oldest modern certificate company hit down Ohio, queue one pointer the biggest companies sell its tolerant between Metropolis and Another York City.^[1]

History

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The Dayton Parallel Dance Band was supported in 1968 by Jeraldyne Blunden pass for a assist outlet manner students spokesperson Jeraldyne's Nursery school of Caper. Blunden picked students go over the top with her grammar for interpretation dance ballet company, acquiring 12 female dancers by 1972. One good deal these recent dancers was Blunden's girl, Debbie Blunden-Diggs, who would later energy artistic president of description company.

In 1973, rendering company performed Blunden's choreography, Flite, implore the honour of existence the be foremost African-American status to transposable membership thesis the Northeasterly Regional Choreography Association Commemoration. The bevy soon produced its prime large index performance get the message 1976, additionally marking representation first sicken the pardner

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IN GOOD COMPANY

CLEO PARKER ROBINSON is founder and artistic director of the 53-year-old Denver-based artistic institution, CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE (CPRD), leading a professional Ensemble (CPRDE), Cleo II (her 2^nd company), a Youth Ensemble, an Academy of Dance, an International Summer Dance Institute, a 240-seat theatre, and numerous community outreach programs nationally and internationally. She has received honors and awards from corporate, civic, community, and artistic entities world-wide, bringing CPRDE to myriad organizations and venues for performances, teaching residencies and community engagement programming.  A master teacher/choreographer and cultural ambassador, she and CPRDE have performed nationwide and throughout Europe, the Caribbean, Asia, and the African continent, with their most recent international tours taking them to Bogota, Colombia in Spring of 2019 and Mexico in Fall 2019.

Ms. Parker Robinson’s awards and honors include the Colorado Governor’s Award for Excellence (1974), Denver Mayor’s Award (1979), induction into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (1989) and the Blacks in Colorado Hall of Fame (1994). Recognized in Who’s Who in America Colleges and Universities she holds an Honorary Doctorates from Denver University (1991), an Honora