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"Community Outreach provides opportunities for our instructors and students to bring the beauty and art of ballet to those that cannot make into our studios and provide performance opportunities for our instructors and students. Our students gain valuable performance experience and earn service hours towards high-school graduation."
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Community Outreach Projects:
Current/Ongoing Collaborations
Past Collaborations
If you are interested in supporting our community outreach programs, please email [email protected].
- Nutcracker in the Castle in collaboration with the Paine Art Center in Oshkosh, WI: This is a 15-year ongoing collaboration where our students participate in 130 performances each Holiday season.
- Performances provided during the July 4th Community Fest in Neenah, Wisconsin: This is an ongoing 14-year collaboration with the City of Neenah.
- A Very Neenah Christmas: This is an ongoing 12-year collaboration with the City of Neenah.
- We collaborate with the Neenah Library and showcase full-length ballet performance.
We participate in the Solstice event at the Bergstrom Mahler Museum in Neenah. - Our students perform 3-4 full-length ballets at a variety of Nursing homes throughout the year.
Past Collaborations
- Lake Arts Project collaboration with regional artists, select high school art programs, and dancers and choreographers from Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet School, and Valley Academy for the Arts.
- Wilson Elementary School in Neenah as part of the after high-risk school program. We taught after school classes to preschool through elementary level children( a two-year collaboration) through the TCCES ( Twin Cities Catholic Education System) (five-year partnership)
- Boys and Girls Club Oshkosh, The Academy in Appleton WI, Neenah Joint School District, Neenah Historical Society, Fox Valley Symphonie,
- Valley Academy for the Arts provided teaching resources and dance space for the Neenah Parks and Recreation Dance Program.
If you are interested in supporting our community outreach programs, please email [email protected].
Vision Dance Theater
Vision Dance Theater is a non-profit, semi-professional ballet company led by Valley Academy’s Artistic Director Anne Marie Brunner-Abderholden. The dance company strives to further enhance the training and artistic experience of an extraordinary group of young dancers. Vision Dance Theater serves as a stepping stone for young committed people toward a professional career, along with providing enriching experiences to those young dancers who may not aspire to a professional career but are dancing for pleasure. Valley Academy for the Arts is the resident Ballet School for the Vision Dance Theater.
Current company members range in age from 10-17 years old. Auditions for the company are in early September and are open to any child age ten and up, with previous dance experience.
Company members get a range of performance opportunities throughout the year, such as “Nutcracker in the Castle,” a collaborative effort with the Paine Arts Center and Gardens (Oshkosh WI), the Spring Concert (full-length feature ballets), and performances with Badger State Girl Choir. Past productions include “Hansel and Gretel,” “Where the Wild Things Are,” “Twelve Dancing Princesses,” and “Sleeping Beauty.”
For information on the Vision Dance Theater, please email [email protected].
Current company members range in age from 10-17 years old. Auditions for the company are in early September and are open to any child age ten and up, with previous dance experience.
Company members get a range of performance opportunities throughout the year, such as “Nutcracker in the Castle,” a collaborative effort with the Paine Arts Center and Gardens (Oshkosh WI), the Spring Concert (full-length feature ballets), and performances with Badger State Girl Choir. Past productions include “Hansel and Gretel,” “Where the Wild Things Are,” “Twelve Dancing Princesses,” and “Sleeping Beauty.”
For information on the Vision Dance Theater, please email [email protected].