Colorado Conservatory of Dance

Dance instruction, participation, performance, and community outreach. 23 instructors taught ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary and other offerings to over 325 youth and adult students. Offered approximately 90 low-cost training opportunities to approximately 40 professional dancers via choreographers residency program. Provided access to dance for special needs children through Ballet Expressions program of adaptive dance. Led in-school residencies for over 800 underserved elementary school students, including performances of anti-bullying ballet for 2,500 students at schools throughout the north metro Denver area. CCD provided over $70,000 in tuition assistance to students to attend conservatory classes.

Community education and outreach programs provided free anti-bullying performances to eight elementary, middle and high school schools throughout metropolitan Denver for approximately 5368 students; arts-integrated in-person Move2Learn residencies in four elementary schools (serving 2130 students and performance/audience participants); and, free after-school in-personal ballet classes at four elementary schools with 60 students. New to Jan 2022 is a Technical, Design and Production Internship for 10 students for middle and high school students at Pinnacle Performing Arts Complex.

Presented 12 mainstage performances (7 fall, 5 spring) to a total audience of 4262 patrons.