LINES Ballet Discovery Project

Overview

The LINES Ballet Discovery Project is an exciting new outreach program offered by LINES Ballet School. Our Discovery Projects are designed to diversify the scope of LINES Ballet School’s impact on young artists and communities.

Through collaboration with communities and fellow dance educators, the Discovery Project is organized as a three-to-five day intensive workshop conducted by LINES Ballet School Faculty. This workshop is offered at a minimal cost of $30, and targets dancers ages 12 and up of an intermediate to advanced level.

The Discovery Project addresses ways to use dance to bridge gaps created by diversity of experience, perspective, culture, and socio-economic background. We aim to contribute to the overall awareness and support of dance in communities all over the country.

Opportunities and Classes offered (will vary by location)

•Ballet, Pointe, Men’s Technique, Pas de deux, Modern, Improvisation,
Variations/LINES Ballet Repertoire
•Audition for the 2010 LINES Ballet Summer Program at a discounted rate of $15
•Be considered for one full-scholarship for the 2010 LINES Ballet Summer Program

LINES Ballet School Faculty (will vary by location)

•Shirin-Keyani Rose- LINES Ballet Summer Program Director,
former LINES Ballet Company member
•Karah Abiog- LINES Ballet Training Program Director,
formerly Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company
•Maurya Kerr- former LINES Ballet Company member
•Duncan Cooper- formerly San Francisco Ballet and Dance Theater of Harlem
•LeeWei Chao- formerly Joffrey Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet
•Kara Davis- Kunst-Stoff and Project Agora


"My daughter has always loved dance but from the intense, encouraging, and specifically passionate teachers from LINES this last weekend she has experienced an even greater joy in her dance. Her regular ballet teacher… called me today just to let me know that she had noticed a change in my daughter’s dancing in class this week – an inner strength and beauty that projected outward that seemed to rise above anything else she has ever done in class."
-Parent of a Discovery Project dancer


If you are interested being a Host community and/or Host School for the LINES Ballet Discovery Project, please contact Shirin Keyani-Rose or call 415.863.3040 ext 248.