Volunteer!

If you would like to help the Cambridge Youth Dance Program at any of our events, please contact us at office@cydp.org - we certainly appreciate the efforts of all of our volunteers!


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to our Holiday or Spring Performances, or to sponsor a workshop for our students to benefit from professionals working in the industry, please contact our studio or follow our paypal

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Thank you to all of our supporters for

their continued generosity!

student awards

2009 Award Recipients

Sarah Mason Scholarship Award

Anna Workman

Emerging Young Artist Award Recipient

Aidan Dunbar

Achievement Award Recipients

Reina Bass

Melissa Campos

Evie Dill

Perri Wilson


2008 Award Recipients

Sarah Mason Scholarship Award

Christina Fontanez

Mannion Scholarship Award Recipient

Brianna Frazier

Taylor Pacheco

Emerging Young Artist Award Recipient

Roxanne Rivard

Achievement Award Recipients

Aidan Dunbar

Leina Fieleke

Haley McLaughlin

Chloe Nasser

Danielle Ramos

Gaby Robb

Grace Toner


2007 Award Recipients

Sarah Mason Scholarship Award

Nina Krane

Lasser-Adams Scholarship Award Recipient

Christina Fontanez

Achievement Award Recipients

Elizabeth Goldsmith

Madeline Leonardos

Shy-Yanna Neal

Caroline Workman


Considerations for Awards

The three pillars of the CYDP achievement awards and the Sarah Mason Scholarship are Artistic Integrity and Ability, Leadership and Dance Service, Respect for Others and Self. Specific characteristics are outlined below:


Artistic Integrity and Ability:

The Dancer:

  1. •Analyzes, synthesizes, and articulates dance development processes and outcomes.

  2. •Shows innovation, individual flair, and complex thinking with respect to choreography, performance, and discussion

  3. •of dance works.

  4. •Presents a performance that perceptively interprets and communicates the choreography, performance, and discussion of dance works.

  5. •Presents a performance that perceptively interprets and communicates the dance with appropriate physical and

  6. •spatial control.

  7. •Identifies and convincingly justifies choreographic ideas and crucial decisions in choreographing and performing.


Leadership and Dance Service:

The Dancer:

  1. •Strives to be an example for younger dancers and peers.

  2. •Positively reflects the spirit and commitment of CYDP in the community at large.

  3. •Shows commitment as illustrated through time spent, or through obstacles (physical, financial, schedule, health, etc.) overcome in order to receive training.

  4. •Shows appropriate restraint and self-discipline.


Respect for Others and Self:

The Dancer:

  1. •Arrives to class and performances on time and prepared, exhibiting a neat appearance.

  2. •Exhibits respect for the faculty and other adults, such as parents and school staff, who contribute to his/her training.

  3. •Accepts constructive criticism and strives for continual self-improvement in all aspects of dancing and life.

  4. •Respects peers.

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