Education

PROJECT EDUCATE!

For five years running DTO's groundbreaking PROJECT EDUCATE! has given free tickets to youth at Eugene School of Ballet, Looking Glass and Big Brother Big Sister Programs for "at risk" youth to attend children's performances at the Hult Center. DTO has sponsorships for this program from companies such as Sony Disc Manufacturing, Selco Credit Union and Pacific Continental Bank.

In 2003-04 DTO was in 2-3 week artist residencies at Veneta, Elmira, Magnet Arts and Gilham Elementary schools in Oregon through the Lane Arts Council's Artists in Education. The residencies taught dance and related subjects such as geography, anatomy, sequencing and cultures of the world with an ending performance assembly.

DTO was making one-day site visits to elementary schools through "FIT" grants with Lane Educational Services District (Lane ESD) in which young people in K-5 grades learned dance vocabulary and performed their work at the end of the workshop in an all school assembly. DTO completed over 40 site visits.

Negotiations for 04-05 school visits are currently underway. In addition DTO has once again been selected as Lane Arts Council Youth Arts artists and will be conducting two week artist residencies at schools throughout Lane County as well as performing school assembly programs with lane arts Council and Young Audiences of Oregon and SW Washington.