Rosenfeld Master Dance Workshops
Master Dance Classes at GDS are made possible by the Samuel J. Rosenfeld Family Master Dance Series Grant. Each year, the workshops are free for current GDS High School students and current GDS faculty and staff.
This Fall's Rosenfeld Master Dance Workshop features Luke Botti '13
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Open Level Swing Dance
11:00 AM –1:00 PM
Location: High School Dance Studio
Guest Artist Biography
A 2013 graduate of Georgetown Day School, Luke Botti attended the University of Virginia where he studied mathematics and computer science. While at UVA, he joined the swing dance club and began learning Lindy Hop. During the school year, Luke would take swing lessons in Charlottesville, and on summer breaks in DC he would take lessons with Gottaswing as well as other dance groups in the area. Luke taught lessons at the university dance club and started a performance team.
After graduating in 2017, he moved back to DC where he continued to dance socially as well as becoming a member of DC’s premier dance troupe, Fidgety Feet.
In 2022 Luke moved to New York City; while there, he became a member of the Hell’s Kitchen Kilowatts dance team, performing at such famous venues as Lincoln Center. Luke competed with the team in the Canadian Swing Dance Championships in 2023, where they took third place.
Luke moved back to DC in 2024, where he continues to be a familiar presence on the local dance scene.
After the workshop, please join us from 1:30 -3:30 for Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra
Beginning in April 2010, the award-winning BCJO (founded and directed by saxophonist Brad Linde and trumpeter Joe Herrera) played each Monday night at the historic club on U Street until the end of March 2016 when the club closed. The band continues to thrive in new spaces and with special performances at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Strathmore, and many more.
This dance band performance features music written and performed by Duke Ellington.
