Ballet East Dance Company believes in the new. For the past two years, we have served as the umbrella for VOICE, an exciting and innovative local company with worldwide reach. VOICE recently presented the multi-sensory dance event Chocolate, and continues to explore the possibilities of dance.
Ballet East  Dance Company believes that dance can change lives, especially young lives. When I started our after-school programs twenty years ago, I hoped dance would teach our young people the lessons it taught me when I was a boy on the East Side. If I wanted to perform, I had to work. I began to set goals for myself, to think about college. Dance set my feet on a path that took me around the world. I want the children of the East Side to have that opportunity.

Dropout rates for students on the East Side are close to 50 percent, but students in our programs stay in school. They improve their attendance and grades. All of us at Ballet East take pride in each diploma. Many of our students are the first in their families to graduate from high school.

Ballet East receives grants from national, state, and local entities, public and private. Many of these grants require matching funds, so every dollar we receive from you leverages one to four additional dollars. Your donation is an investment in the arts in our community, and in the lives of our young people.