Grantee Database
DIABLO BALLET
Grant Year
2018-19
Grant Program
Arts Education - Artists in Schools
Award Amount
$15,669.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Diablo Ballet will offer PEEK, a creative movement curriculum that develops students’ academic and social-emotional intelligence skills. PEEK will be implemented at five Title-I elementary schools in the East Bay–serving 240 elementary students across seven classrooms. Teaching artists and the Company of dancers will lead classroom activities that foster story-telling, creativity, and teamwork skills through dance practice and technique.
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
