JumpStart
Maryland Youth Ballet’s JumpStart Outreach Initiative, started in 2007, provides opportunities for access, participation, and mentorship in formal dance training to populations that have historically been underrepresented in classical ballet. JumpStart provides free afterschool ballet classes to children, grades 1-2, at 10 elementary schools in suburban MD within the Washington, DC metropolitan region. From about 200 after school students, 20-25 are selected to participate in a free, week-long, all-day intensive at MYB. From that group, children with the passion and potential are offered full-year training scholarships to MYB’s academy.
MYB works in partnership with Montgomery County’s Linkages to Learning program.
Maryland Youth Ballet’s JumpStart Outreach Initiative, started in 2007, provides opportunities for access, participation, and mentorship in formal dance training to populations that have historically been underrepresented in classical ballet. JumpStart provides free afterschool ballet classes to children, grades 1-2, at 10 elementary schools in suburban MD within the Washington, DC metropolitan region. From about 200 after school students, 20-25 are selected to participate in a free, week-long, all-day intensive at MYB. From that group, children with the passion and potential are offered full-year training scholarships to MYB’s academy.
MYB works in partnership with Montgomery County’s Linkages to Learning program.
“I am so grateful that Farah was a part of the JumpStart program. She still walks with her chin up…So many children need an outlet and ballet gives them a level of discipline that they never have had before. So proud of MYB.”
Angela (JumpStart Parent)
Learn More
Interested in offering JumpStart classes in your school? Email: info@marylandyouthballet.org
Press for JumpStart
JumpStart featured on CultureSpot MC – In Living Color by Peggy Vaughn.
Support
Please consider supporting MYB’s JumpStart Outreach Initiative with a donation.
