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Children's Tumbling was founded in 1978 and continues to
provide a unique, extracurricular gymnastics program for children
of all abilities from age 16 months. Classes are offered in a
comfortable and safe Lower Manhattan studio. Children's Tumbling
is distinguished from more traditional gymnastics programs by
its innovative, integrated and non-competitive approach to movement,
which incorporates music, storytelling and each student's imagination.
Children's Tumbling is also an active participant in the Downtown/Tribeca
community, engaging in community events ranging from halloween
parties to anti-noise pollution rallies. Through out the year the stiltwalking students participate as volunteers in various street fairs in lower manhattan; The Tribeca Film Festival Family Fair, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s ‘Kids for Kids’ carnival, The New American Youth Ballet’s Nutcracker performance and all outdoor performances of the TriBattery Pops, Lower Manhattan’s volunteer community band.
Suellen Epstein, CMA, as a principal member
of the Multigravitational Aerodance Group in the
1970’s, performed and taught master classes in
festivals, universities, and museums, in the U.S.
and abroad. She designed and taught dance
classes for children at a Brooklyn Museum summer
program, for six years taught gymnastics at
Little Red School House, and was for several
years a guest teacher at The British Center School
in Venice, Italy.
Her early dance training began in the 1970’s at
Dance Theater Workshop and the Louis-Nikolais
Dance Theater Lab. She studied gymnastics dance
for many years with Toby Towson. She continues to attend the workshops of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Irene Dowd and Yamuna Zake when time permits. As a volunteer she has designed and directed a day of activity for ‘Rainbow Day’ since it’s inception at the St. Vincent Hospital’s Pediatric Psychiatric ward.
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