Josiah Dahlin Dance Creativity Award

This scholarship is awarded to a student at Orange Coast College who is involved in the Dance Department. The faculty select a student who goes the extra mile for the Dance Department by using his or her creative energy to enhance and inspire students and faculty to look at dance in a new way and discover new avenues of using movement.

Josiah wrote that dance means “freedom”. The extraordinary self confidence and growth he gained in Linda Sohl-Ellson’s Improvisation Class, the wonder of stage presentation he found in Amy Cady’s Modern Class, and the exhilarating joy of dancing for Jose Costas’ Latin Style Jazz class were his bridge to the future. They were the spring board that helped Josiah realize his passion in writing and belief he could master the universe.

Josiah’s family takes pleasure in offering this award in memory of a young man who gave each of us sheer delight onstage and offstage.

Had he lived��.who knows?