Grantee Database
DIABLO BALLET
Grant Year
2019-20
Grant Program
Youth Arts Action
Award Amount
$16,313.00
Project Description
With support from the CAC, Diablo Ballet will implement its PEEK Program at John Muir Hospital in Concord in the Adolescent Behavioral Health Inpatient Unit. PEEK is a creative movement program where patients use the body as a tool for dance/movement (DMT) therapy. Patients will develop positive emotional and social skills needed to overcome psychiatric symptoms that adversely impact their day-to-day life, with support from teaching artists, expressive art therapists and psychiatrists.
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
