Dance Alive National Ballet Receives Grant to Support Outreach Educational Programming

GAINESVILLE  – Dance Alive National Ballet has received a $2,000 grant from the Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund to support its Outreach Educational Programming.

Kim Tuttle, Artistic Director of Dance Alive National Ballet, and Emily Dixon, Outreach Director, said the funds would be used to expand services provided by DanceAbout and Let’s Dance programs.   DanceAbout provides classes and performance opportunities for students grades K-middle school while Let’s Dance provides classes for physically and/or developmentally challenged children.

“I am particularly pleased that this funding allows us to provide the instruction necessary for special needs students,” Dixon said. “And we have been able to double our DanceAbout classes.” (Dixon is also Director of Programming, Arts4AllFlorida.) “Additional performances, other than those scheduled with NUTCRACKER, include a special performance at Legacy Park in Alachua in March.”

In both rural and urban settings, the Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund supports hundreds of important organizations and programs in the communities where they operate with funding, time, expertise and resources. Weyerhaeuser made its first charitable donation in 1903 and has provided more than $266 million in grants through its formal giving program, which was established in 1948.

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