NEVADA BALLET THEATRE PRESENTS ITS ANNUAL FUTURE DANCE “GO-MOVE-DANCE!!!” SPRING CONCERT– LAST NIGHT: WEDNESDAY, MAY 20
In a Premiere Performance at The Smith Center for Performing Arts, “Vegas Does Broadway” featured 800 underserved students from 16 CCSD Elementary Schools
Future Dance Spring Concert Sponsored by Wynn Resorts
Future Dance Program Sponsored by the Lied Foundation Trust and the Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation
Last night 800 CCSD students from underserved communities across the valley danced and twirled across the stage at The Smith Center for Performing Arts for Nevada Ballet Theatre’s (NBT) annual Future Dance GO-MOVE-DANCE!!! Spring Concert. This year’s performance, “Vegas Does Broadway,” paid tribute to famous Broadway hits that have been performed at the world-class arts center. As the largest Future Dance GO-MOVE-DANCE!!! Spring Concert to date, hundreds of students filled the Reynolds Hall stage – while friends, family, NBT administrators, board members and sponsors showed their support for the aspiring dancers.
Celebrating 23 years of Future Dance, 2015 marks the first time the program’s annual Spring Concert was presented on a professional stage, NBT’s performance home, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
An elementary school residency program that coincides with the school year, GO-MOVE-DANCE!!! offers students who live in underserved communities the opportunity to take part in free, in-school dance instruction where they are taught a variety of dance disciplines by NBT’s Future Dance Teaching Artists. Students enrolled in this dynamic after-school program showcase their accomplishments and garner live performance experience each May as part of a special end of the year Spring Concert.
Participating elementary school students hailed from the following CCSD schools:
| · Brookman | · Crestwood | · Park |
| · C.V.T. Gilbert Magnet School | · Harvey Dondero | · Lake |
| · Lunt | · Harmon | · Tate |
| · McWilliams | · Kit Carson | · McCall |
| · Red Rock | · Paradise | · Rex Bell |
| · 100 Academy of Excellence |
(Photos courtesy of Virginia Trudeau)
ABOUT NBT’s FUTURE DANCE
One of the most important elements of Nevada Ballet Theatre’s mission is to provide premier educational dance programming to local Clark County school children. Now in its 23 year, Future Dance has grown to become one of the most successful education and outreach programs in the Clark County School District. With free in-school dance instruction as the cornerstone of Future Dance, Nevada Ballet Theatre’s Education and Outreach programs now reach over 10,000 students annually through initiatives like GO-MOVE-DANCE!!!, Dance Discovery, Future Dance Scholar program, School Matinee Series and its most recent addition, Kids Night Out at the Ballet and the adult educational program, Insights. Through the continued generosity and commitment of community leaders and arts supporters, Nevada Ballet Theatre will continue to educate more children, engage more schools and instill young lives with positive habits, a healthy self-esteem and a strong work ethic. This season will see Future Dance growing by leaps and bounds as the company seeks to touch the lives of every student in Clark County who is in need of food for the soul.