Second Wind Dance Company began performing professional modern dance in Hampton Roads with its successful collaboration with internationally renowned sculptor Barry Johnston in 1994. Since then Second Wind has featured two major productions yearly with internationally known guest artists, as well as collaborations with various Hampton Roads art galleries. Second Wind dancers were featured in the opening of D’Art Center’s Go Figure, and were guest performers for the Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia’s Food for Thought exhibition opening and in Chrysler Museum of Art’s Opening of the Ricau Exhibition and it’s New Modern Gallery. Leaves, Leaves, Leaves...A Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh was co-produced with Second Story Theater May, 1998.

Second Wind provided an evening of dance entitled Dance Alive, focusing on domestic violence and AIDS, in the Wells Theater at Norfolk’s First Night 1996 and has participated in the Prevention of Child Abuse concerts at Old Dominion University. Second Wind Dance Company has been active in the Hampton Roads community on many levels. We offer performing opportunities to disadvantaged youth in the area. We have a relationship with the Governor’s School for the Arts where we teach and choreograph, giving professional performance opportunities to many students who otherwise would not have them. We have donated dances to the Hope House Foundation, which is a poverty relief agency. We performed

in annual benefit concerts against child abuse for six years. We hire handicapped staff and rely on special services for our bulk mailings. We work with the educational programs at the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. We teach children’s dance workshops in conjunction with their current exhibitions at no cost to the children. In 1999, the Virginia Marine Science Museum commissioned Second Wind to create Let’s make Like Jellies and Jam . The piece was performed at the opening celebration of the museum’s new jellyfish exhibit and as part of several educational workshops for children. Second Wind performed at the

Contemporary Art Center of Virginia as part of the museum’s educational high school tour of The Human Factor. Second Wind Dance Company was nominated for the Governor’s Arts Award in 2000.