San Jose Dance Theatre

We opened a ballet school in 2014 with the hiring of a new artistic director. We had not offered a ballet academy in a long time. We went from -0- students in 2014 over 100 students in the 2018-2019 time frame. We are very proud of building the school from nothing 6 years ago and working to make it a wonderful school. These students perform in the nutcracker and almost the entire academy is involved with it. There are open auditions for the nutcracker - dancers of all ages are welcomed from area schools to audition and we double-cast the show to provide performance opportunities for many dancers. We provide many free performances to the public each year. These include: "world wide women girl's festival - 2018 at santa clara university & 2019 at the palace of fine arts in san franciscoo "pruneyard "peace on earth" holiday lighting event with the mayor of campbell, ca 2018 "eastridge center tree lighting event, 2018 and other years "santana row christmas tree lighting event each november 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 "san francisco movement & arts festival 2017, 2018 and 2019 sjdanceco festival - santana row - each spring for the last 4 years we mount a spring performance each year since 2015 at local theaters for the community and our dancers. In spring of 2019 we mounted a new production of the firebird ballet with music by igor stravinsky and choreographed by the artistic director and costumed by our volunteer costume directors. The firebird hadn't been performed in san jose in decades. Our students, their families, our artistic director, teachers and management create the structure for sjdt to grow. I'm a former dancer with sjdt and studied and performed under the founders. Our artistic director also performed as a child with sjdt. We care about creating a strong artistic base in the san jose area and doing it through the art of ballet. Sincerely ann timoney president of the board of directors

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