Taking Healthy Steps:
Summer Session

We are now accepting registration forms for our exciting summer program: Taking Healthy Steps.

Taking Healthy Steps is one week of intensive dance instruction, theatre arts and special workshops during which girls ages 11 – 14 explore a range of performing arts including Ballet, Modern Dance, Musical Theatre and Theatre Arts daily with special guests leading classes in strength training, flexibility, nutrition, gyrokinesis and yoga.

Taking Healthy Steps provides a supportive environment where students are encouraged to express themselves freely and forge new friendships with girls from all over Boston. By gaining greater physical awareness through movement and discovering different ways to share their own voices, Taking Healthy Steps participants develop healthy self-image, leadership skills, and confidence that remain long after the end of the program.

This year, we are pleased to offer participants a choice of two, separate one-week sessions:

August 18 – 22, 2008
or
August 25 – 29, 2008

Interest about our program has been growing quickly so send in your registration form as soon as possible to reserve your spot! There is no cost for this program after the $25 registration fee. Registration forms are due by June 30th, 2008.

Download the Taking Healthy Steps Registration Form

 

Taking Steps After-School Program
Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education and lead sponsor Loomis, Sayles & Company are pleased to offer this free after school program in the Boston Public Schools.

Taking Steps is an exciting after-school program that provides dance training and performance opportunities for girls ages 11 to 14. Taking Steps offers participants the opportunity to experience the arts first-hand with two afternoons of dance instruction and one afternoon of another art form such as visual art, music, drama, and literature. The girls experience a wide variety of dance forms such as ballet, modern, hip hop, jazz, salsa, African, Indian, flamenco, and folk. Students explore their creativity and develop leadership skills and confidence as they learn from arts professionals.

The program offers four weekly classes for two semesters of twelve weeks each, coordinated with the public school calendar.