Volunteers spend between an hour and an hour and a half tutoring third through sixth-graders. Adult dance classes will be offered from Jan. 18 to March 8 through Golden Connections and the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, at the arts center. Elizabeth Rockwell, former director of various dance theaters and companies including the founding director of the dance department at New York City's High School of Performing Arts, is the director. Professional dancer Cecily Parsons is the instructor. Students develop fitness in action, strength, flexibility, styled and rhythmic dynamics through the study of modern dance, ballet and creative jazz.
Students concentrate on public performance skills and productions.
Erica Torri, executive director of the Athenaeum in La Jolla, a nonprofit private lending library, will speak about the relationship between libraries and civilization. Actors range in age from 55 to 90. Events Wednesday The Ramona Equine Industry Network will host internationally known author and horse trainer Mark Rashid from Jan. 17 to 21. Rashid will speak at the REIN monthly meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Mountain Valley Ranch in the Barn at 842 Highway 78. Reservations are requested.