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NOBA's Education Program
Since 1992, NOBA has offered accessible dance education to youth throughout the New Orleans community through anchor partnerships with the New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD) and Housing Authoirty of New Orleans (HUD) as well as partnerships with school systems and community organization.
NOBA continues to provide tuition-free, year-round comprehensive dance programs in Orleans, St. Bernard, and Jefferson Parishes for youth ages 6-18 and their families through sequential training and ancillary activities as well as provide employment, professional development, and artistic experiences to local artists. Community partners work with the NOBA staff to train artists, plan, sustain, grow and implement programs.
NOBA is dedicated to high artistic standards and sequential, rigorous instruction while skilled in adapting curriculum & instruction to age, ability, interest levels, and the shifting composition of classes. Its programs encourage and regard students' artistic development and the strengthening of their life skills--taking responsibility, persistence, self-discipline, and mutual respect. NOBA's programs are attentive to students' personal and physiological needs in an effort to increase student recruitment and retention.
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Celebrating 15 years of excellence!
The Center For Dance, a partnership between the New Orleans Recreation Department and NOBA, offers tuition-free after-school and Saturday dance classes for youth in Orleans Parish! Tuition-Free Dance Classes!
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Creative Communities is an arts education, youth development and community building strategy that provides youth in public housing communities with high quality, sequential arts instruction by creating partnerships between community schools of the arts and local public housing authorities. This program offers free creative movement classes, workshops and opportunities to attend performances.
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A partnership between New Orleans Ballet Association, the Dillard University Health and Physical Education Department & Dillard University Community Development Corporation to offer free classes for youth ages 6-18 April 5 - May 3, 2008 at Dillard University, Dent Hall.
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Summer Intensive 2008
The NORD/NOBA Center For Dance Summer Intensive is a pre-professional dance-training camp for students, ages 11-18 with demonstrated talent. The Junior Intensive Program is for ages 9 and up. The program will include local and a guest artist residency with the nationally acclaimed Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, guest speakers, and technique classes in ballet, modern, jazz, and Afro-Caribbean dance forms.
SUMMER DANCE INTENSIVE AUDITIONS ARE COMING UP! Click here for details.
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St. Bernard After School Program
NOBA and Chalmette Refining, LLC partnered in 1995 to offer tuition-free ballet classes for St. Bernard Parish youth, ages 7-11. Ballet classes are open to boys and girls who have expressed an interest in dance. This thirty week program offers two culminating Open House performances by the students, family field trip opportunitites, and other community performance opportunities.
For more information on youth dance classes contact Suzanne Hirsch at 504-522-0996 ext. 203.
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