As an audience cheers, three teenage girls cross the stage in a line, to the high-energy beat of The Chainsmokers’ “Don’t Let Me Down.” They’re dressed in head-to-toe black, but each of their shirts is decorated with bright bulbs, flashing and blinking in various colors as they move. The performance is a product of STEM […]

Rebecca Warthen was on a year-long assignment with the Peace Corps in Dominica last fall when a storm started brewing. A former dancer with North Carolina Dance Theatre (now Charlotte Ballet) and Columbia City Ballet, she’d been sent to the Caribbean island nation to teach ballet at the Dominica Institute of the Arts and in […]