New Bedford Ballet
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
3:30pm-7:30pm
Saturday
8:30am-12:00pm
2343 Purchase Street
New Bedford, MA 02746
508-993-1387
newbedfordballet@gmail.com
Winter Session Starts Thursday January 5th
The Schwartz Center for Children and New Bedford Ballet are pleased to offer the Partners in Dance Program, an adaptive dance program designed for children with developmental challenges who are partnered with their typically developing peers, relatives, or teachers. This innovative program will be offered on Thursdays from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Children under the direction of Ms. Rebecca Waskiel-Marchesseault, artistic director of New Bedford Ballet. With assistance from Mr. James Brown, master ballet instructor at New Bedford Ballet, and staff members from the Schwartz Center for Children, students with developmental challenges will explore the world of dance and creative movement in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. Each class includes a unique theme around which a warm-up, creative movement and a craft activity are based. Each child will be partnered with a sibling, relative, peer, or adult, and together they will share this unique experience designed to foster creativity and self esteem.
Since 1947 the Schwartz Center for Children has served as Southeastern Massachusetts’ only independent, community-based provider of education, therapy and medical care for children with special developmental and medical needs. Founded in 1987, the New Bedford Ballet Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and present classical and contemporary ballets, grant scholarships, and educate the community in the value of the performing arts. Throughout the years, aided by the financial support of the Foundation, thousands of area school children and senior citizens have had the opportunity to enjoy the world of dance.
For more information about this program or others offered by New Bedford Ballet and the Schwartz Center for Children, contact the New Bedford Ballet at 508-993-1387, or contact the Schwartz Center for Children at 508-996-3391 or visit their website www.schwartzcenter.org.
See class schedule here.
Have you always dreamed of learning ballet? Or have you simply been looking for an alternative to the drudgery of the gym? Improve your strength, balance, coordination and maybe, just maybe, wind up feeling more graceful than you ever thought possible. Join us in this fun, engaging, no-stress, no-experience-necessary beginner adult ballet class. Drop-ins welcome. Wear comfy clothes; leotards not required.
Not a beginner? We also offer a class for those with some prior training. Perfect for all ages - from college students missing their dance classes back home to gently aged adult dancers whose stage career has ended (or never quite begun). Same great relaxed atmosphere as the beginner class but with a little more to challenge you.
Tuition info for adult classes.