Education Programs

The innovative Primeros Pasos (“First Steps”) program is a series of dance education activities designed to serve students, educators, dance audiences, and the general public. Ballet Hispanico shares its unique blend of dance and learning about the Hispanic diaspora with an average of 20,000 participants annually. The activities evoke a deeper awareness, appreciation, and understanding of Latino cultures, and draw from a diversity of dance forms including: Classical Spanish, Modern, Afro-Caribbean, Folkloric, Latin Social Dance, Jazz, Hip Hop, Creative Movement, and Latin Jazz.

Ballet Hispanico's Primeros Pasos program is supported, in part, by Ford Foundation, The Hearst Foundations, Louise and Ardé Bulova Fund, Con Edison, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc., The Bay and Paul Foundations, Partners for Arts Education, and by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Special thanks to JP Morgan Chase & Co. for supporting
Chase Primeros Pasos on Tour.

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