Firebird Dance Theatre's Annual Benefit Performance April 14, 2013

The Oshman Family JCC (OFJCC) will host the Firebird Dance Theatre as it presents its Annual Benefit Performance in memory of its founder Rosa Lysaya.

Firebird Dance Studio is a Bay Area dance school and an award-winning performing dance company based out of Mountain View, California. Part children's dance recital, part professional-level concert, the Firebird Dance Theatre showcases inventive, complex and well-executed choreography based on traditional Ukrainian, Russian, Armenian, Moldavian, Argentinean, French, Latin and Gypsy steps.

Firebird Dance was created at the Palo Alto JCC in 1991 by world-renowned teacher and choreographer, Rosa Lysaya, after her immigration to the U.S. from the USSR. Known then as the Lysaya Dance School, it enrolled six students and focused on traditional folk dances from Russia and around the world.

NowFirebird boasts well over 100 participants in their performing dance troupe ranging in age from 18 months to adulthood.. Under the guidance of the current director Lotta Lysaya Burton (daughter of Rosa), Firebird has continued to expand with new dance styles and classes, as well as performances around the world. Lotta Lysaya-Barton brings an annual benefit concert to the OFJCC Schultz Cultural Hall to pay homage to the theatre's beginnings.

Official Website: http://www.paloaltojcc.org/firebird