Arts campus launches on Aviation
Students Brandon Brushwyler, Maxine Finster, Ford Finster and Grace Abbott with piano teacher Emily Baum. Photos At any given moment within a sprawling collection of buildings along Aviation Boulevard, art is happening. A toddler, only months old, shakes a maraca, finding his first groove, at Music Rhapsody. Downstairs at Emily’s Piano Studio, a six-year old pianist learns scales or perhaps performs a happy show tune in a group lesson. Next door at Hollywood Jumpstart, an aspiring ten-year-old actor and model has a professional headshot taken in preparation for his first audition with an agent. At the far end of the building, a dozen dancers are learning steps the Willie Wonka ballet at the Pacific Dance Center. Welcome to the Redondo Performing Arts Campus, the newly formed partnership of four businesses within the Redondo Plaza, which has made the 1600 block of Aviation an emerging artistic hub for kids. “Acting, modeling, piano, dance, rhythm – they all complement one another,” said Emily Baum, the owner Emily’s Piano Studio. “It makes sense we are all here together.” The campus launches this weekend with an open house Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. Baum, who is known simply as…
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