Career Transition For Dancers Presents HEART & SOUL Awards Luncheon

Career Transition For Dancers presents The Second Annual "HEART & SOUL" Awards Luncheon Celebrating the "Most Fashionable" of the Palm Beach Spirit on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 11:30 am at Club Colette in Palm Beach, FL. There will be a fashion show of "Costumes from the Dance" The costumes of numerous dance classics such as APOLLO, CARMINA BURANA, DON QUIXOTE, FIREBIRD, GISELLE, LA BAYADERE, LAMENTATION, SWAN LAKE, THE RITE OF SPRING, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, to name a few are being provided by the top dance companies in the country and will be modeled by dance from the area. A complete list of the companies and the costumes will soon be announced. Chair Anka Palitz stated "The Dance Companies have all been so enthusiastic, agreeing to help Career Transition For Dancers Palm Beach luncheon, and to bring awareness. of our very unique organization and the service we provide to their former dancers!"

The Honorary Chairs are: Dame Celia Lipton Farris, Alfred Fiandaca, Herme de Wyman Miro. The Chairs are: Caroline Collings, Cheryl Gowdy, Anka Palitz, Vicki Kellogg. For this special benefit the Underwriters, Sponsors & Benefactors are: Adrien Arpel, Betteridge Jewelers, Michael J. Dixon, Frank Crystal & Co, Herme de Wyman Miro, Patrick Park & Natalie Fernandez, Judith Ripka The Committee includes: Paula Butler, Dale Coudert, Jocelyne Dunn, Annette Friedland, Cheryl & Jerre Gowdy, Judy Grubman, Vicki Halmos, Michele Herbert, Hayden Hosford, Sandy Krakoff, Sandy Kriser, Kay Lyons, Grace Meigher, Terri Mercentes, Daniella Ortiz, Mary Ourisman, Nancy Ellison Rollnick, Amanda Schumacher, Anne Surovek, Celeste Thomas, Lauri Welteroth, Gail Worth.

Career Transition For Dancers Florida Clients and Grant Recipients are: Darian Aguila, Melissa Alison del Sol, Jennifer Antonnosanti, Alexandre DuFaur, Darya Fedotova, Nicolas Fonseca, Helen Hansen, Christina Heldreth, Christine Hodges, Steven Hoff, Kathryn Homeres, Lorena Jimenez, Roy Johns, Tabitha Johnson, Todd Jost, Elizabeth Keller, Mifa Ko, Kristen Kramer, Giselle Menacho, Rebecca Mitchell, Sergiy Mykhaylov, Joey Panek, Hiroko.

Recently celebrating its Silver Anniversary, Career Transition For Dancers has worked to enable dancers to define their career possibilities and develop skills necessary to excel in a variety of disciplines for 26 years. With of­fices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and a mobile National Outreach Project, the organization has provided over 46,000 hours of individual and group counseling, with a dollar value of over $4 million in educational and entrepreneurial grants. Outside of the or­ganization's 4,600 active clients, the organization has helped thousands of dancers in 47 states take their first steps towards discovering reward­ing post-performance careers. The Caroline & Theodore Newhouse Center for Dancers is at 165 W 46 Street Suite 701 (at Broadway: the Actors' Equity Building) NYC.

The phone number is 212 764 0172 and the fax is 212 764 0343; our offices in Los Angeles 323 549 6660; and in Chicago 312 666 0234.

To learn more about the organization and interact with some of the services it provides online, please visit www.career­transition.org.