Dance Connects

Community Partnerships

Dance Connects provides opportunities to discover dance in collaboration with other communities. PNB supports innovative and cooperative partnerships as a way to expand learning in and through the arts.

REACH Student Dance Group

Photos © Alan Alabastro

A collaboration between PNB and Spectrum Dance Theatre, REACH Student Dance Group offers 8-week intensive dance workshops for students to learn different dance styles, create original choreography, attend live performances, and perform at McCaw Hall. REACH is open to students ages 11–15; all abilities and experience levels welcome.

Fall Session, 2010
Latin Rhythms with Vanessa Villalobos

Students will explore and delve into AfroLatin body movement inspired by the sounds of Salsa, Ballroom Rumba and the Peruvian Festejo.
Rehearsals are Saturdays from 3:30–5:00 pm
September 18, 25 • October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 • November 6
Performance on November 13, McCaw Hall
View REACH Student Dance Group flyer

Spring Session, 2011
Class style & instructor TBA

Rehearsals are Saturdays from 3:30–5:00 pm
January 22, 29 • February 5, 12, 19 (no rehearsal Feb 26) • March 5, 12, 19
Performance on March 26, McCaw Hall

Photo © Alan Alabastro

To Enroll

Pre-registration required. Please download, complete, and mail in the registration form
Or contact:
Rochelle Rapaszky at RRapaszky@pnb.org, 206.441.2432, or
Shawn Hensley at Shawn@spectrumdance.org, 206.325.4161

Tuition

$125 per session or $200 for both sessions
Scholarships available. To apply for a scholarship, please complete the scholarship request form and return it with your registration form.

Arts Impact

Arts Impact provides comprehensive professional development in the arts to elementary and middle school classroom teachers in Pierce and King Counties. It is a two-year program that trains classroom teachers to independently teach visual and performing arts and integrate the arts into the core curriculum. The program began in Pierce County in 1999. It has now trained and mentored more than 470 teachers reaching over 47,000 students during that time. As a partner with Arts Impact, Pacific Northwest Ballet offers opportunities for teachers to create dance-infused lesson plans, and to attend ballet performances and fieldtrips with their classrooms. For more details about Arts Impact, visit www.arts-impact.org