EDUCATION & OUTREACH

DANCE PARTNERS

 

Dance Partners is a program designed to bring at-risk, disadvantaged, disabled and elderly person to mainstage productions at no cost to the individual. An average of 2000 persona attend annually. Some of the agencies that have participated in this program include:

 

 

Alachua County Victim Services Another Way, Inc., Shelter  ARC Big Brothers/Big Sisters Department of Children and Families Corner Drug Store Meridian Behavioral Health Foster Grandparents Gainesville Area AIDS Project Pace Center for Girls Catholic Charities

Interface Youth Program CAPP Nurturing Program Center for Independent Living HIPPY Department of Children and Families Ronald McDonald House Take Stock in Children Pleasant Place Boys and Girls Club HUD Facility for seniors and disabled Florida Crown Career Center

 

All service agencies are eligible to participate in this program. For more info contact DANB:
dalive@bellsouth.net;  phone/fax: 352/371-2986; 1325 NW 2nd St., Gainesville, FL. 32601

 

DISCOVERING DANCE

“The Mainstage Experience” is a program that has been ongoing since 1976. Annually over 5,000 children from Alachua County and 14 surrounding counties are brought to daytime professional mainstage productions featuring Dance Alive National Ballet in the settings of the  University of Flrida’s Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Eastside High School, and Oak Hall Cofrin Theatre. Multidisciplinary curriculum materials are provided educators that address Florida’s Sunshine State Standards and FCAT requirements.

 

For more info contact DANB:

dalive@bellsouth.net; phone/fax: 352/371-2986; 1325 NW 2nd St. Gainesville, FL. 32601