Dancing for a Cure 2019! Brain Tumor Benefit Dance Festival


Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 4 PM – 7 PM

Visual and Performing Arts Center
21250 Stevens Creek Blvd,
Cupertino, California


"Dancing for A Cure!" is an event in the greater Bay Area where amateur and professional dancers create pieces of art through their bodies and hearts to raise funds to support medical research, patients, and their families. 

This year, San Jose Dance International will produce a dance performance to support the brain tumor community. The goal of this event is to help raise awareness of brain tumors, as well as raise funds to support the National Brain Tumor Society, a Nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to serving people whose lives are affected by brain tumors.

Featured Artist:  ANA SOPHIA SCHELLER, Principal dancer at National Ballet of Ukraine (starting 9/1/19).  Former principal dancer of NYCB and San Francisco Ballet
ERIS NEZHA, Principal dancer at Los Angels Ballet.  Former principal dancer at Boston Ballet.
PETRA CONTI, Principal dancer at Los Angels Balet.  Former principal dancer at Boston Ballet.

Featured Speaker:  MIKO FOGARTY, Moscow International Ballet Competition Gold Medalist, San Jose Dance International Conservatory Director, UCSF Brain Tumor Center

List of Performers* (Alphabetical):  All Star Kung Fu (Chinese Kung Fu), Arabesque (Middle-eastern Belly Dance),  Ballet Folklorico Mexico Danza (Mexican Dance), Bay Area Ballet Youth Company (Classical Ballet), Chelsea and Ray (Argentine Tango), Dimensions Dance Theater (African Dance), Flus Vertical Theatre (Vertical Dance), Hai Yan Jackson Chinese Dance (Chinese Classical Dance), Madhuri Kishore Kuchipudi Dance School (Kuchipudi Dance), Mambo Groovin' Latin Dance Theater (Fusion Bachata), Mannakin Theater and Dance (Contemporary), Natyalaya Kuchipudi School of Dance (Kuchipudi Dance), Peninsula Ballet theatre (Classical Ballet), Silicon Valley Stompers (Clog Dance), SJDI Adult Ballet Performing Group (Classical Ballet), SJDI Youth Ballet (Ballet), Sneha Patkar (Kathak Dance), Stephanie Herman (Contemporary, Jazzy, Lyrical Ballet), Yu Xin Ballet School (Ballet) and Zouk SF (Brazilian Zouk Dance)



Cost: $35 - $40