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Montclair
DANCE ON THE LAWN
SEPTEMBER
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Montclair has festivals celebrating film, literature and jazz — why
not dance, too? DANCE ON THE LAWN, an outdoor performance
3-5 P.M.
that describes itself as “Montclair’s Dance Festival,” celebrates its
sixth anniversary with performances by dancers from 10 companies
and schools in New York and New Jersey. The event will be held outdoors at St.
Luke’s Episcopal Church. Highlights will include a new work by Oluwadamilare
“Dare” Ayorinde, a Nigerian-American freelance dancer and choreographer living in
the Garden State; he will be the fifth recipient of Dance on the Lawn’s Emerging N.J.
Commissioned Choreographer award. The event supports DOTL’s stated mission to
“increase exposure to dance by bringing professional and emerging companies, plus
students of dance from around New Jersey; together in a community setting that is
free and open to the public. • 73 S. Fullerton Ave., danceonthelawn.org
Bloomfield
BLOOMFIELD CENTER
WELCOMES BUCCO
RESTAURANT
The increasingly hopping Bloomfield Center
restaurant scene offers another reason to
check it out: the recently opened eatery
BUCCO. The menu includes Italian favorites
such as fried calamari and eggplant rollatini,
frutti di mare and stuffed rigatoni, salumi
and formaggi. Classic American dishes include grilled salmon, pork tenderloin and
NY strip steak. Bucco is BYOB, and conveniently located across the street from a
municipal parking garage; it’s open for lunch and dinner every day except Sunday,
when it’s open for dinner only, and Tuesday, when it’s closed. • 61 Washington St.,
973-566-6100, buccobloomfield.com
It’s often said that
if you want to
succeed in your
chosen field,
you should read
books to learn
about leadership
and management
styles that work
in corporations.
Now STEPHEN J.
VALENTINE,
assistant head of
the Upper School
at Montclair Kimberly Academy, and
DR. RESHAN RICHARDS, the co-founder
of Explain Everything Inc., an online
learning community, have a lesson for
business people: If you want to thrive,
you should incorporate teaching into
your workplace. In their new book,
Make Yourself Clear (Wiley, $25), the
two educators offer actionable advice
on how salespeople, leaders, service
professionals and trainers can become
better teachers. “Teaching is an essen-
tial resource for companies of all sizes,”
says Valentine. “In order to be success-
ful in business, you need to look at your
workplace as a high-level, supportive
learning environment.”
Montclair
ELYSSIA’S KITCHEN IS A ONE-STOP DUMPLINGS SHOP
Many successful eateries focus on doing one thing well, and that’s the case at ELYSSIA’S KITCHEN. Sure, the menu at the cozy
shop includes other items such as a beef burger, scallion pancakes and fried rice, but the focus here is on varieties of dumplings:
kimchi pork, chicken with corn, fried tofu, soup dumplings, wontons in house-made soup, and more. The dishes are tender, and
so is the age of its original driving force and namesake: Elyssia Yung recently attended Verona High School, and worked with the
township of Montclair to develop the physical space. She also conceived of the menus and recipes. • 190C Bloomfield Ave.,
973-337-5340, elyssiakitchen.com
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LEARNING NEVER
STOPS — OR IT
SHOULDN’T