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BalaSole Dance Company is a non-profit dance organization that promotes education, diversity, inclus

BalaSole Dance Company believes that the art of dance is for everyone. The company was established to address the following imbalances, which have prevented and/or discouraged individuals from participating or pursuing a career in dance:

- Limited artistic freedom given to dance artists in most dance
companies
- Insufficient multi-ethnic representation of dance artists
- Inadequate mentorship given to dance artists with regard to
finding their artistic identity and strengthening their professional
credentials
- Limited opportunities for artistic collaboration in most dance
companies
- Typecasting restrictions that marginalize dance artists because of
age, shape, size, ethnicity, and style
- Generally only one stylized form of dance used in a dance
company’s repertoire
- Below average compensation given to a large number of dance
artists working in smaller companies
- Scarce opportunities for emerging dance artists to work alongside
seasoned performers
- Limited opportunities for dance artists to showcase their full
artistic talents and identity within a dance company
- Limited number of dance company programs providing access to
the art of dance to under-served communities such as senior
citizens living in senior centers, children and youth from low
income families, and adults who don't have formal or prior dance
training
- Limited opportunities for male and female dance artists to become
soloists
- Low number of male dance artists entering the field
- Limited connection between dance and non-artistic fields

12/25/2024

08/03/2024

BalaSole Dance is grateful for this wonderful partnership in fostering young children's exposure to dance and the arts.

08/27/2023

BalaSole concluded it's summer dance program at A Place for Kids last week. Thank you Roberto Villanueva for the ongoing sponsorship of the program, Minerva Chin for continuing to facilitate this 11-year partnership, and to Bridget Cronin for teaching these young kids the art of dance/movement.

Photo credits: A Place For Kids

07/12/2023

We are excited to announce this week marks BalaSole’s return to its normal programming, after being on hiatus as the result of the Covid pandemic.

BalaSole’s executive director Roberto Villanueva resumed his sponsorship of the company’s dance classes at A Place for Kids’ summer program in Chinatown—a partnership that has been in place for at least 10 years.

Shown here are BalaSole’s teaching artist Davonna Batt and the children in the program.

Photos and videos: Courtesy of A Place For Kids.

Address

2616 York Highway
New York, NY
10001

Website

http://www.balasoledance.org/

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