Ballet East Dance Theatre
"Bringing art to the community and the community to the arts"
Focus on providing platforms for the development of dancers and choreographers, repertoire expansion and a reinvestment in the infrastructure of under served communities through aggressive community programming, public and private partnerships and a continual reassessment of the vision and focus.
Community Outreach:
4th Annual Festival Celebration Youth
Join us in celebrating today's youth
May 10th, Saturday 2008
Martin Jr. High School
this FREE event for everyone features arts and crafts and dance performance entertainment.
This year dance artist groups include:
Hawaiian Kona-Isle
Walnut Creek Dragon Team
Tanjore Performing Arts
Palestinian Group
Love of China
Lanaya New Guinea Drum and Dance
St. Edward's Ballet Folklorico
and many more!
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Ballet East Dance Company received $25,000.00 from the A Glimmer of
Hope Foundation. The project design is as follows:
In keeping with its mission and vigorous community outreach, Ballet East
Dance Company proposes to expand its Baile Folklorico Program at Martin
Middle School to serve more students, and to offer cross-age mentoring at
Metz and Brooke Elementary School. The students will have
opportunities to attend performances of professional companies, and to
perform.
In Addition, Ballet East proposes to inaugurate a pilot program in dance and
theatre arts at the Dove Springs Recreation Center for students from Palm,
Houston and Widen Elementary Schools, and Mendez Middle School.
Students will develop and present an original production at their schools.
Both programs are founded on recognized principles of dance and theatre arts
instruction, as well as those known to be effective with students at risk of
delinquency and dropping out of school. Both include a plan for
evaluation.