Dancing across the continents

Choreographer/dancer Cristina Perara shares her talent with three area arts companies

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Afterspending a year working with Cirque du Soleil, internationally renowned danceinstructor Cristina Perera will be coming to Lansing.

Perera,who has worked with Mark Ruhala of the Ruhala Dance Center, will be spendingthe last half of May bringing her experience and dance techniques to threedance studios in Lansing. Happendance, Danceworks and the Ruhala Center willall feature classes by Perera, ranging from Latin jazz to advanced ballet.

Perera— who works as a freelance dance instructor in Asia, Europe, North America andSouth America — started dancing when she was 6, and since then, she says, ithas been her “entire life.” She spent a year in Brazil as the artistic directorof Cirque du Soleil’s “Alegria,” which she was “very intense work” and differentthan the world of dance she was accustomed to.

Shesays she brings her different dance techniques to many different people aroundthe world because art is meant to be shared.

“Artis something that needs to be shared — otherwise, it does not survive,” shesaid. “If an artist does not share, he cannot be an artist. It is anecessity. It is important to fuseand embrace all the movements and the culture of the arts.”

Perera’sclasses will begin at the Ruhala Center on May 17, and she will hold nineclasses between the three studios, the last of which will be on May 27 atHappendance. For more information or to register, contact each of the schools.

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