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Start Date and Time: 04/11/2011 06:30 PM

End Date and Time: 04/11/2011 09:00 PM

Location: Studio 450, 450 West 31st Street 12th Floor, New York, NY 10001

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Groove With Me, Inc.

Groove With Me, Inc. is a youth development organization using free dance classes and performance opportunities as a tool to instill in young women the leadership, pride, spirit of cooperation, creativity, joy and discipline needed to confront the adversity in their daily lives and throughout their future development. The program seeks to decrease teen pregnancy, truancy, crime, violence, prostitution, substance abuse and gang related activity by nurturing youth, building self-confidence, offering positive choices, and providing a safe place to go.

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Tap & Tapas

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE
7TH ANNUAL SPRING BENEFIT
TAP & TAPAS
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Special Performance by Jason Samuels Smith
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Honoring Tom Colicchio, Chef & Owner, Colicchio & Sons and Craft Restaurants; award-winning Author; and Host of Bravo's "Top Chef"
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Featuring tastings from some of New York's most celebrated chefs!
April Bloomfield & Josh Even: John Dory Oyster Bar
Tom Colicchio & Damon Wise: Colicchio & Sons
Scott Conant: Scarpetta
Sylvain Delpique: David Burke Townhouse
Harold Dieterle: Kin Shop
Kerry Heffernan: South Gate Restaurant & Bar
Bill McDaniel: The Red Cat
George Mendes: Aldea
Eric Ripert: Le Bernardin
Missy Robbins: A Voce
Tonnie Rozier: Tonnie?s Minis
Jacques Torres: Jacques Torres Chocolate
Sue Torres: Sueños


Jason Samuels Smith and the Groove With Me dancers will perform at 7:15pm

MONDAY

April 11th, 2011

6:30 PM TO 9:00 PM
STUDIO 450
450 WEST 31ST STREET. BETWEEN 9TH AND 10TH AVENUES. NYC

Please RSVP by April 4th as space is limited!

Check out our online auction starting March 25th at www.biddingforgood.com/groovewithme.

Groove With Me, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides free afterschool dance classes and performance opportunities to low-income, at-risk girls in East Harlem, New York City. Groove With Me utilizes dance as a means to instill skills girls need to confront the adversity they face daily and throughout their future development. The organization seeks to decrease teen pregnancy, truancy, crime, violence, prostitution, substance abuse and gang related activity by providing girls-only, positive development programming.

90% of the expenses at Groove With Me go directly to programming, to providing free dance classes to girls. When you contribute to Groove With Me you know your support is going to the immediate necessities of a dance studio for girls.

Your donations help provide Groove With Me?s girls the opportunity to not only experience professional dance classes in a beautiful and secure studio, but they also give the girls the chance to perform in professional venues.

Founder & Executive Director
Abigail McCreath

Program Director
Meredith Sherman, LMSW

Program Coordinator
Jamali Corniel


BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Marguerite D'Aloia, Chair
Rachel Lurie, Vice Chair
Melanie Koroghlian, Treasurer
Jessica B. Lee, Secretary
Francesca Abbracciamento
Hope Clements
Margie Cole
Allan Forsyth
Shari Loeffler
Ashley Tuttle
Steven Wolinsky

HONORARY BOARD
Gregory Hines*
In Memoriam
Sarah Jones
Tony Award Winning Playwright
Gail Marquis
Gold MedalistADVISORY BOARD
Caryl Chinn
Mona Girotra
Carolyn Kessler-Thow
Susan Cara Lewis
Becca Parrish
Jill Rosengard-Hill
Lori Silverbush

BENEFIT COMMITTEE
Francesca Abbracciamento
Marguerite D'Aloia
Shari Loeffler
Diana Melton
Amanda Miller
Dawn Padmore
Ashley Tuttle
Karry Wilson

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