On Feb 5, Ron Parker, producer of The History of Black Dance in America, interviewed with Dedon Kamathi of Freedom Now,  In this interview, Ron explains about the history behind many of the dances that are part of the show. Click here to listen. The interview is about 20 minutes into the show.

 THE HISTORY OF BLACK DANCE IN AMERICA Inglewood, February 12    Central Avenue Dance Ensemble to present a retrospective of African and African-American inspired social dances from the 1800s to today   INGLEWOOD, CA -The Central Avenue Dance Ensemble, in honor of Black History Month, is producing a 2-hour multimedia dance performance entitled The History [...]

Singlish was featured today with two large photos in the business section of the Los Angeles Times.  To read the article, keep reading and click on the thumbnails …

Gabriella Charter School was featured today in “The Homeroom,” a Los Angeles Times education blog. To read the full article, click here.

The WESTEC Advanced Productivity Exposition and Conference is the largest annual machine tools and advanced manufacturing event in North America. It took place again this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Squires PR was asked to publicize the “Student Manufacturing Challenge” in which So. Cal colleges and universities competed with their student projects. Campaign results included features [...]

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation is an inner-city non-profit that has for years provided free, quality dance training to thousands of underserved Los Angeles children through its program. When they asked us to publicize their first ever “LA Ballroom 2008″ inner city school competition, we thought a 3/4 page spread in the Los Angeles Times was [...]

What a day for USA Dance Los Angeles! Both KABC 7 and the LA Daily News came out to Sutter Middle School to cover their kids’ ballroom dance program. The photo above is ABC 7′s Leslie Miller interviewing Michel Wolpe, USA Dance LA Vice President. Here’s the transcript from the segment, as well as journalist [...]

KNBC 4 covered Pattie Fitzgerald of Safely Ever After, Inc. teaching a “Kidz Power” safety workshop in Los Angeles.