Author Archives: Juliya Madorskaya

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The Utilized Unutilized

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Juliya Madorskaya

: Larger than life

: Midnight Action

: Slipping through

: From Above

: Progress on a cold snowy night

: Shadow

: Movement

: Results

: Don’t be a hater

: Way Back

: Other Artists

: Not as easy as it seems

: Does it just keep going?

: What’s left behind

: Not just for walls

: A space for the homeless

: Addiction

: Old and new, side by side

: Come and go

In the abandoned Brooklyn parking lots and railway paths is where you’ll find their mark. The canvases which are found in places that could be parks or even public, evolving galleries are filled with creations during the darkest hours of the night, under pseudonyms, illegally. The artists are not exactly alone though. In these same spaces where they dangerously trespass to express themselves in paint are also the likes of homeless people and drug addicts. The walls are masterpieces but the ground is littered with garbage, needles, rubble and remanence of “sleep setups”.

The spaces are being utilized in a very polarized sense; a place for the artists to work in large scale and for night dwellers to do drugs. One of the places is the railway which runs along avenue H in Brooklyn. With so many miles of what could be a beautiful public place, perhaps a park like Manhattans Highline, it makes little sense as to why it remains the way it does. It could remain a space for the artists without the midnight climb or the constant looking over ones shoulder for authorities as well as become so much more as it is picturesque all on its own during the day. The city should be paying more attention to the spaces they leave unattended as they are becoming a petri dish for criminal activity both of the innocent and dangerous varieties.

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Young Ambition

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Juliya Madorskaya

On any given afternoon, you walk into what could be the most beautiful professional dance studio just about anywhere. While the daze of entrancing, glimmering chandeliers begins to subside you find yourself wondering what you’re doing standing in the doorway. Ribbons of energy swirl through the room along side the rhythms of Salsa, Tango, Paso Doble, one right after the other. There is something slightly unusual though.

Everyone in the room is under 25 with most being even half a decade shy. The instructors, secretaries and manager, not a single person an exception to the rule. This is not always the case, however, they are the shining stars that compose 90+ percent of the company. Talented, ambitious young men and women who are world champions and masters, leaping back and forth extending their hand, skill and smile.

Over the years DanceWithMeUsa(.com) has grown into NYC, their first two studios were in Long Island and New Jersey respectively. The staff have become a team which exists outside the studio walls and was brought together by the musical sanctuaries. This room filled with a heap of suns can say dancing never gets boring. When not competing, teaching or attending school in search of higher education, DWM staff have gone from strangers to coworkers to friends to family. They change their professional shoes for their socialite attire and Jive on arm in arm into the night.