20
Aug
2014
Thank you to our genenous foundations:
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$15,000 from The Riverboat DevelopmentAuthority for our Dance Me A Story: Exploring Literature Through Ballet program that will be presented to area libraries, senior center and youth organizations to compliment our performance season that is based on five great pieces of literature. People of all ages will be encouraged to read using the extraordinary vehicle of dance.
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Ballet Quad Cities received a grant award of $5,000 from Humanities Iowa, a state based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to support our program, Dance Me A Story: Exploring Literature Through Ballet. Area libraries, senior center and youth organizations will host this program throughout the year.
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$500 from the Rauch Family Foundation to purchase ballet barre's and props for our DREAMS: Achieved Through Dance that will take place at The Rock Island Academy Elementary School every week during the school year.
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$2,300 from the Rock Island Community Foundation to bring our award winning education program The Ugly Duckling: A Message of Acceptance Told Through Dance to the Rock Island Elementary Schools.
- $5,000 from Quad City Arts supporting our pilot program DREAMS: Achieved Through Dance, taking place at The Rock Island Academy Elementary School. DREAMS stands for Dedication, Education, Ability, Memory & Self-Confidence, life skills that are important for students as they grow into future citizens.
Funding for Arts Dollar$ is provided by The Hubbell-Waterman Foundation; Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; Deere & Company; Doris and Victor Day Foundation
Meet our new dancer - Corey Mangum
Corey studied under Mimi Worrell at the Center for Dance Education. He graduated from the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities where he studied under Stanislav Issaeev.
He attended summer intensive programs with Ballet Austin, Bolshoi Ballet and Joffrey Ballet and he was an apprentice in programs at Ballet Austin, Kentucky Ballet Theatre, and Milwaukee Ballet II. Corey is looking forward to his first season with Ballet Quad Cities.
