Grantee Database
DIABLO BALLET
Grant Year
2019-20
Grant Program
Arts Education - Artists in Schools
Award Amount
$16,052.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Diablo Ballet will lead its PEEK program at six Title-I elementary schools in the East Bay Area from September 2020-June 2021. Students will create dance movement as a way to convey feelings and emotions, and develop positive academic and prosocial skills. In addition, students will work together to develop a culminating movement story choreographed in groups and performed for an audience of teachers and parents.
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
