Dance Ring

See schedule o - lift programnytb's unique lift community services program provides tuition-free ballet classes for at-risk and disadvantaged children, and has transformed the lives of hundreds of children. Lift students participate in classes with non-scholarship students. The classes are only a beginning. Lift gives the children sustained attention in a stable, caring environment. It increases their self-esteem and teaches them what it takes to achieve a goal using the discipline of ballet as a tool. It leads them to discover that what really matters is focus, discipline and how hard they work, not where they come from.lift alumni include a world-class dancer who has performed around the globe, youngsters who have danced in billy elliot and south pacific on broadway, and others who have made it through high school and college and all the way to graduate school.