New York Fashion Week with Coco!

7 of our senior Eire Born dancers had a unique and exciting opportunity to dance in New York City in early September 2009 during "Fashion's Night Out", the huge kick-off event to NYC Fashion Week. Former NPIDA dancer and supermodel Coco Rocha invited the girls to come to New York and dance with her at a special event at DKNY (Donna Karan). Although the dates of the trip would mean missing their first few days of university/college, arrangements were made and the girls flew to NYC on a whirlwind trip for a once-in-a-lifetime experience with their longtime friend Coco!

The dancers worked on their choreography before leaving Vancouver, and had an afternoon of rehearsal time in NYC with Coco the day before the show. Upon their arrival in NYC they found out that they would be wearing fall fashions from DKNY during their performance! Their outfits consisted of wool turtlenecks, skirts, wrap sweaters, hats and gloves. During the night of the event, Coco was absolutely swarmed by fans and media, and designer Donna Karan herself had a front-row seat in the store during the show. It was a tremendous success and certainly a memorable experience for the dancers!

Congratulations and great job to Kali McAndless, Margaret Eno, Hanna Smyth, Natalie Peters, Kimberly Galdert, Lisa Yap, and Kelly Dawson! And - of course special thanks to Coco!

Video: YouTube clip showing a short section of the September 10/09 performance at DKNY during Fashion's Night Out; Coco and friends.

Photos:

1/ Performing at DKNY, left to right: Margaret, Natalie, Coco, Hanna, Lisa and Kali.

2/ Margaret, Natalie, Coco and Hanna.

3/ Coco and Donna Karan.

4/ Kelly, Margaret and Lisa.

5/ Natalie and Hanna.

6/ Margaret and Kimberly.

7/ Kelly, Hanna and Kali.

8/ Finding time for a bit of shopping in Times Square: Lisa, Kelly, Natalie, Kali, Hanna and Kimberly.

(First 3 photos from Google Images).