Don’t box us in: Mason Gross BFA dancers took the stage at their Launch Pad event at The Joan Weill Center for Dance Monday, May 7, 2012, in The Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York City. Here a student performs choreography by Israel’s Inbal Pinto.
Photos by J Somers Photography LLC
People will warn you against taking chances. Ignore them. People will offer you a life with no room for your vision. Refuse them. People will seek to smother your curiosity in a plush bed of certainty. Resist them.
– Adam K. Levin, 2012 Mason Gross School commencement speakerMore than 200 students graduated on Saturday, May 12, at New Brunswick’s State Theatre in a boisterous ceremony filled with jazz, impromptu dance and lots of hoots and hollers. What else would you expect from us?
All photos by J Somers Photography LLC
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
– William Shakespeare. Happy graduation, Class of 2012!With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it’s just not acting. It’s lying.
– Johnny DeppAnd he sailed off through night and day
and in and out of weeks
and almost over a year
to where the wild things are.
What you spend years creating others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
– Mother TeresaEverywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.
– Louise BourgeoisThose who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
– George CarlinAbout me
The Mason Gross School of the Arts, founded in 1976, is the arts conservatory of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, with departments in dance, music, theater and visual arts, as well as an Extension Division, Arts Online and the Rutgers Center For Digital Filmmaking.
