Arts In Education

Georgia Dance Theatre plays a vital role in enriching lives within our community through our Arts In Education community outreach programs.

Our programs serve the community by providing valuable arts experiences and quality dance training to children and families of all ages, abilities, and socio-economic levels.  Each of our programs strives to enlighten and educate children on the beauty and benefits of dance.  These programs cultivate a love for the arts, while encouraging creative thinking, problem solving, athleticism, and healthy life styles.

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Mentorship/ Workstudy Program
Georgia Dance Theatre professional company members assist in partnership with the Fayette County Board of Education and the Coweta County Board of Education in providing opportunities for leadership development to high school students. This program offers a higher level of arts education by enhancing skill development as students intermingle with professionals in the field. If students are interested in participating in this Mentorship program contact Artistic Director Sherri Davis at sherri@gadance.com.

In addition, we strongly support various private online learning applications which provide a positive learning experience for our youth.

 Dance Without Limits . . .
Classes for Special Needs Children

This program was created solely for the special needs children of our community to give them an outlet to move freely with creative movement, dance, and coordination skills.  We offer Dance Without LImits free to the community as a part of our outreach to give back to our community.  This class is located in a dance environment where the dance curriculum is modified so the children could gain the most from the class in a positive, nurturing environment. Classes are led by our professional dance educators and professional company members of Georgia Dance Theatre.
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​Arts Gives Back to Our Community
Senior Citizens, Veterans  and Children 

This program was created specifically to partner with local groups and organizations that sponsor Abused Children, Senior Citizens, and Veterans within our community.  Through this partnership, we provide free exposure to our professional performances, fundraising efforts, gifts and support to these organizations. For additional information on our Arts Gives Program please contact our Director of Operations Kym Bushmire at Kym@gadance.com.

For our recent Nutcracker & Nutcracker Tea, Arts Gives through Georgia Dance Theatre was able to provide free viewing to our productions to the following Organizations:

This holiday season, Georgia Dance Theatre gave the gift of the arts to several deserving organizations including Bloom, Atlanta Inner-city Ministry, Crossroads Foster Care, VetTix, Promise Place, and Peachtree City Church of Christ.

As part of our Arts Gives Outreach Program, we provided over 165 free tickets to our Nutcracker Ballet and Nutcracker Tea productions! This program was created specifically to partner with local groups and organizations that sponsor Abused Children, Senior Citizens, and Veterans within our community. Through this partnership, we provide free exposure to our professional performances, fundraising efforts, gifts and support to these organizations.

Pictured below are children from the Atlanta Inner-city Ministry. For some of these children, this was their first exposure to the arts - ever! We are humbled and grateful this holiday season to be able to touch so many lives through the arts.

Thank you to our incredible sponsors, National Endowment for the Arts, and Georgia Council for the Arts for believing in our mission and helping fund our wonderful outreach programming.
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