Grantee Database
DIABLO BALLET
Grant Year
2024-25
Grant Program
Creative Youth Development
Award Amount
$23,147.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Diablo Ballet will lead its PEEK (Performing Arts Education & Enrichment for Kids Program), a creative movement and social and emotional program for at-risk teenage boys and girls currently in the judicial process at Mt. McKinley Court School at John A Davis Juvenile Hall (Mt. McKinley) in Martinez. The PEEK Program teaches students how to utilize movement to overcome behavioral and mental health roadblocks that impact their lives.
Organization Summary
Since 1993, Diablo Ballet has been committed to enriching, inspiring, enlightening, and educating children and adults from Contra Costa and Alameda Counties through classical and contemporary dance performances. Diablo Ballet is the County’s first professional, award-winning dance company; and whose world-class dancers have performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and South America. It’s ballet school, which launched in August 2019, is the first in the history of Contra Costa County operated by a professional ballet company and includes a Dance for Parkinson’s Program offered free by-weekly classes for Parkinson’s patients and their caregivers.
Diablo Ballet is committed to serving youth through its engaging arts education initiatives in Title-I schools in the East Bay and in Juvenile Hall in Martinez. Diablo Ballet has reached more than 75,000 underserved elementary school students and at-risk teens with its interactive Performing Arts Education & Enrichment for Kids (PEEK) Program since 1995.
Organization
Diablo Ballet
Address
PO BOX 4700
WALNUT CREEK
94596-0700
County
Contra Costa
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(925) 943-1775
Congressional District
California's 11th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 16
State Senate District
District 7
