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Why should YOU support Chamberlain Ballet?
Supporting The Chamberlain Ballet is an investment in arts and community enrichment.
By backing such an organization, you contribute to the preservation of a timeless cultural tradition, fostering creativity, grace, and discipline. Your support enables talented dancers to receive top-tier training, choreographers to craft innovative performances, and local communities to access inspiring artistry. By joining hands with our nonprofit ballet company, you champion accessible and inclusive cultural experiences that can uplift spirits, educate, and leave a lasting impact on individuals of all ages.
About Chamberlain Ballet
Chamberlain Ballet is a pre-professional ballet company founded in 1984. Located in Plano, Texas, our not-for-profit organization is committed to enriching the North Texas community with dance performances, enlightening with arts education, and encouraging through our outreach programs.
Through the support of our generous donors and sponsors, Chamberlain Ballet is able to stage full-scale theatrical productions for the public, provide world-class instruction and opportunities to our dancers, and share the beautiful art of dance with the underprivileged and underserved members of our community.
Whether instilling a work ethic of will and determination in our students or sparking an artistic light in a fellow community member, Chamberlain Ballet is proud to build Classical Foundations for Life®.
Performances
Chamberlain Ballet’s 2023-24 season will begin on November 20 with The Nutcracker Suites presented by Texas Health Resources in Dallas with the Irving Symphony Orchestra, Hector Guzman conducting.
Next we will present our annual production of The Nutcracker, featuring internationally renowned guest artists, over Thanksgiving weekend at the Charles W. Eisemann Center in Richardson, followed by a special appearance at NorthPark Center in Dallas.
Our spring production will include original performances created especially for Chamberlain Ballet by our professional artists-in-residence. New York City Principal Tyler Angle will be staging his version of Paquita. Francisco Graciano, a Paul Taylor alumnus, will create a contemporary ballet for our dancers. Our youngest dance maker, Sebastian Garcia, will challenge our dancers with a hip-hop ballet.
Training
With your support, we are able to offer advanced training for pre-professional students including intensive workshops, master classes, and artists-in-residence who work directly with dancers to create original works that will be showcased in our spring production mentioned above.
Outreach
Chamberlain Ballet seeks to share the art of dance with all members of our North Texas community through education, scholarships and community performances.
Education
Our education outreach includes programs that focus on providing dance education to the underserved and special needs members of our community, free of charge.
Our Releve' After School Dance program for at-risk children ages 6-13 partners with the Salvation Army and Sigler Elementary to provide free dance education to those who would otherwise not have access. Since it started in 1996, the program has reached over 2,500 students.
Our Shining Stars dance program provides youths and adults with special needs the opportunity for creativity, self-expression, and movement through the art of dance. Since its inception in 2005, our Shining Stars program has reached over 340 students.
Each spring we celebrate dancers from our Relevé and Shining Stars outreach programs at our Community Matters showcase at First Baptist Church of Plano.
Scholarships
Chamberlain Ballet provides scholarships for students to study dance, both locally and at some of the world’s top ballet and dance programs. Thanks to our donor and sponsor support, some students have become the first in their families to attend university and/or work professionally in the arts. Chamberlain Ballet is proud to help bring forth continuing generations of artists in our community and around the world.
Community Performances
Through our Community Connections performances, Chamberlain Ballet provides free access to professional quality performances for under-served, at-risk, special needs, and military families. Since beginning this program in 1991, over 41,000 individuals and families have enjoyed our community connections performances.
Support the Art of Dance
The art of dance is more than just a performance. It is an expression of life, love, and beauty. It fills us with emotion and allows us respite from our daily lives.
Thank you for your generous support!
Chamberlain Ballet is committed to presenting excellent ballet to enrich the North Texas community, enlighten with arts education, and encourage through outreach programs.
The fine art of dance is not limited by culture, race, socioeconomic status, education, age, gender and other expressions of identity. Chamberlain Ballet is committed to developing, supporting and presenting diverse works from diverse sources with diverse casts and crews to a diverse audience. We have a long history of promoting diversity in our company, our productions and our outreach programs. Chamberlain Ballet is committed to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in everything that we do.
Organization name
Chamberlain Ballet
Causes
Arts, Culture & Humanities, Education - K-12
Operating Budget
$500,000 - $999,999
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx
BIPOC Leadership
Both the Executive Director/CEO and Board Chair
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
1404 Gables Court Suite 101