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Article: Dance Place, 25 Years In Leaps And Bounds
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- The Washington Post
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- September 19, 2005
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Dance Place's 25th Anniversary Benefit Concert on Saturday wasn't
only about art; it was also about math. Over the past quarter-
century, board members announced at a break in the evening's raft of
duets, Dance Place has ushered in thousands of patrons to thousands
of concerts and brought in 200,000 underprivileged schoolchildren for
performances and summer camps, where they are taught checkbook-
balancing as well as one-foot balancing.
Dance Place has tallied up these numbers despite being one of the
area's tiniest theaters, tucked into a former welding workshop in
Northeast's Brookland. On a good night -- and Saturday's capacity
audience constituted a very good night -- it seats fewer ...