Randi Cerini ’08 has received the College’s Edward Villella Fellowship for Dance.
As part of her fellowship, Cerini traveled to Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she studied with a salsa dance company called Fusion.
“I decided that pursuing a Mexican dance experience would be an appropriate use of my Villella Fellowship,” she said. “I learned that salsa has a very precise technique, much like classical ballet and jazz. I am so glad that I had the opportunity to travel abroad and learn a different dance style that reflected the new culture in which I was immersed.”
An acclaimed American male ballet star and former New York City Ballet principal dancer who heads Miami City Ballet, Villella received an honorary doctorate from Union in 1991. Three years later, the Villella Fellowship was created from the gifts of Charles D. Lothridge ’44.
The yearly award is designed to expand a student’s study of dance beyond the Union experience.