Through Do More 24 giving on March 6 - 7, your gifts greatly support our active multidisciplinary, multicultural educational work, performances, and urgent focus to :
* Provide Wilmington Ballet Scholarship youth and adult students with free instructional classes, dance apparel, shoes, and support for housing and participation fees for continuing education programs, intensives, and workshops throughout the country.
* Support our annual production of The Nutcracker, the longest running professional production in Delaware history. Playing at the Playhouse on Rodney Square since 1967, featuring a live professional orchestra and world class guest artists from some of the world's iconic dance companies. The production annually features a cast of community members, students, and professional artists that reflect the diverse landscape of the state of Delaware.
* Provide accessible career preparatory dance education to an intergenerational roster of students and aspiring professional artists, that includes cultural and folk dancing traditions to help expand and bolster their artistic capacity and world view, with a collective of resident and visiting guest professional working Teaching Artists from various performing arts genres and disciplines.
* Provide support that would allow us expand our burgeoning list of collaborations to include an international cultural exchange of education and performances, and to continue to bring a diverse roster of professional world class performing artists into our community to share in multicultural performances and experiences that educate, enlighten, and inspire.