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Ballet San Jose School adds New programs for very young children

For the first time in it’s 15-year history, Ballet San Jose School is offering a new Creative Movement class for 3 to 4 year old girls and boys!
This class allows students to explore the connection between music and movement, offering developmentally appropriate opportunities to gain balance, coordination, sequential and spatial learning, muscle tone and control, confidence, creative expression, rhythm, musicality, and pre-ballet basic forms. Most importantly, this class exposes young students at their creative open-minded (and energetic) age to the joy of moving to music! Under the direction of BSJS School Director Lise la Cour, and instructed by BSJS faculty member Ms. Elizabeth Hutter, students will learn in a fun, supportive, and attentively nurturing atmosphere. Class size is limited, so please contact the School Registrar for additional information or to enroll at (408) 288-2020 x223 or registrar@balletsj.org.

September 11, 2010 – January 29, 2011

Saturdays, 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.

Tuition: $400 per semester

Requirements: Students must turn three years old by September 11, 2010

Dress Code and additional information available through the registrar.

Scholarships & Grants

• The Contra Costa Ballet Foundation
  offers Scholarships to Young Dancers

  Jo Tao Memorial Scholarship Competition
  Sunday, June 13 - 2:00 - 4:00

  [Image: ballerinas]Students who are between the ages of 13 and 18 and who are at intermediate and advanced levels in ballet are invited to compete for scholarships offered by the Contra Costa Ballet Foundation.

  The competition will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 13 at the Contra Costa Ballet Centre at 2040 N. Broadway, Walnut Creek. Winners will receive partial to full scholarships for a year of training at the Contra Costa Ballet Centre beginning in the fall of 2010.

  Students will be judged on their class work and a classical or contemporary dance solo of their choice by Robert Dekkers of Company C Contemporary Ballet and Emily Borthwick and Katarina Wester of Contra Costa Ballet.

  To enter the competition, students should register by calling 925.935-7984 or emailing Nikki@ContraCostaBallet.org.

• Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowship Opportunity

• Prix de Lausannes Competition for Young Dancers

• Conseil International de la Danse, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

• Dance: Creation to Performance, funded by Irvine Dance in California and administered by Dance/USA

• Djerassi Resident Artists Program, offers 4-week residencies in Woodside, at no cost, to choreographers and other creative artists

College of Marin Dance Department

San Jose State University Dance Program

Mills College Dance Department

Santa Clara University Dept. of Theater and Dance

Ohlone College Theatre Dance Department

Stanford University Dance Division

UC Berkeley Dept. of Theater, Dance& Performance Studies