Diablo Ballet is the only professional dance company in the Contra Costa region that delivers high-quality arts education to children. The highly-acclaimed PEEK Program (formerly the Dance Development Educational Outreach Program) enriches the lives of over 5,000 young people and families each year by bringing a formal arts education curriculum into public schools and by providing free theater experiences to qualifying children and their families. PEEK has been applauded by parents, teachers, school administrators, and community leaders for the unique way it delivers high quality arts education to the children in our region who need it most.
The PEEK Program has three components:
Dance-in-the-Schools Assembly Program
Dance-in-the-Schools brings interactive ballet programs to schools throughout Contra
Costa County. The program offers an engaging, one-hour interactive
presentation with piano accompaniment during which children learn about the art of dance, basic ballet movement and choreography.
Children then participate in the collaborative
process of creating and performing a short ballet.
Adopt-a-Class Classroom Curriculum
iBy bringing professional dancers into public school classrooms once a month for an entire school year, the Adopt-a-Class program teaches physical activity, coordination, cooperative play, dance technique, and creative expression. Children learn about the athleticism, history and terminology of dance while they experience movement and choreography. Dance is presented as a healthy activity that builds bodily fitness, strength, endurance and coordination and contributes significantly to the development of spatial reasoning skills, mathematical ability and social skills. Over the couse of the year, children learn to use movement as a a safe and enjoyable expression of creativity and physical energy.
To inquire about PEEK Program curriculum or performance opportunities for your school, please e-mail diablo@diabloballet.org.
Theatre Encounter
Theater Encounter provides qualifying children and families the opportunity to experience a free live dance performance at the Lesher Center for the Arts. The program serves children and families who have substantially fewer opportunities to see or participate in the performing arts and gives audiences the chance to interact with professional dancers, learn what it takes to put on a performance, and experience first-hand the magic of live dance.
Mark Your Calendar!
Theater Encounter: Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 10:00 am, Lesher Center for the Arts
To inquire about volunteer and sponsorship opportunities, please contact diablo@diabloballet.org. YOU can help make the arts accessible for children in our community.
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