Rejoice Ministries
Programs
Budget
$10,000.00
Description
Summer Intensive provides approximately 60 students, ages 4-15, with one to four weeks of ballet class. Students pay a nominal fee based on a sliding scale. Students ages 8-11 participate in a two-week program during which they dance 3 hours each day to include 1 hour of ballet, 1 hour of tap, and 1 hour of choreography adapted from classical ballet variations. More experienced dancers, ages 10 - 12 attend classes from 9:00-2:30, Monday-Friday for one month. These students will study classical ballet, modern dance, and choreography in preparation for a performance of classical ballet variations. Students ages 11-15 will study dance from 9:00 - 5:00 for one month. They will study classical ballet, pointe, core and pointe strengthening, modern dance and learn variations from classical ballets for a performance at the program's end. During 2020, Rejoice held Summer Intensive virtually for students and will do so again for 2021 if social distancing requirements dictate that need.
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
None
$10,000.00
Description
Summer Intensive provides approximately 60 students, ages 4-15, with one to four weeks of ballet class. Students pay a nominal fee based on a sliding scale. Students ages 8-11 participate in a two-week program during which they dance 3 hours each day to include 1 hour of ballet, 1 hour of tap, and 1 hour of choreography adapted from classical ballet variations. More experienced dancers, ages 10 - 12 attend classes from 9:00-2:30, Monday-Friday for one month. These students will study classical ballet, modern dance, and choreography in preparation for a performance of classical ballet variations. Students ages 11-15 will study dance from 9:00 - 5:00 for one month. They will study classical ballet, pointe, core and pointe strengthening, modern dance and learn variations from classical ballets for a performance at the program's end. During 2020, Rejoice held Summer Intensive virtually for students and will do so again for 2021 if social distancing requirements dictate that need.
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$93,630.00
Description
Beginning Ballet: Students, ages 4-7, take one to two hours of class each week. Each class has a professional paid instructor and a volunteer teacher assistant. Students age 8 and older take 2-3 hours of dance weekly. Every student performs in the recital. Pre-Professional Program: The Beginning Pre-Professional track is comprised of 8-11 year-olds who study 4 hours of ballet, 1 hour of tap and 1 hour of choreography. More experienced dancers, ages 10-17, study classical ballet for 9 - 14 hours weekly to move toward their goal of studying dance at the collegiate or professional level. Being involved in an art form that brings students to the studio for 6 - 14 hours each week helps keep all youth focused on positive, uplifting pursuits. Older teens are paired with a younger Rejoice student for peer mentoring/leadership activities. Rejoice students work with professional dancers and receive training, coaching, and mentoring which results in improved confidence/leadership abilities.
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
None
$93,630.00
Description
Beginning Ballet: Students, ages 4-7, take one to two hours of class each week. Each class has a professional paid instructor and a volunteer teacher assistant. Students age 8 and older take 2-3 hours of dance weekly. Every student performs in the recital. Pre-Professional Program: The Beginning Pre-Professional track is comprised of 8-11 year-olds who study 4 hours of ballet, 1 hour of tap and 1 hour of choreography. More experienced dancers, ages 10-17, study classical ballet for 9 - 14 hours weekly to move toward their goal of studying dance at the collegiate or professional level. Being involved in an art form that brings students to the studio for 6 - 14 hours each week helps keep all youth focused on positive, uplifting pursuits. Older teens are paired with a younger Rejoice student for peer mentoring/leadership activities. Rejoice students work with professional dancers and receive training, coaching, and mentoring which results in improved confidence/leadership abilities.
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$30,000.00
Description
Rejoice students receive valuable performing experience in a variety of venues which helps build self esteem and confidence. They receive positive affirmation from their performing experiences. Rejoice students are growing in self-esteem and in the ability to handle themselves in a variety of situations and cultures. Places Rejoice students have performed: Nashville Ballet 'Nutcracker,' Christ Church Cathedral First Friday Service, Christ Church Music and Worship Conference, Nashville Public Libraries, Schermerhorn Concert Hall, Trevecca University, East Park Community Center, and many area churches. Rejoice School of Ballet students have performed in the classical ballets 'Coppelia,' 'La Sylphide,' 'Les Sylphides' 'Peter and the Wolf,' 'La Fille Mal Gardee,' and 'Cinderella.' Original ballets: 'Growing Up Black in America,' 'The Little Engine That Could' and 'Saam Psalms-Together Songs.'
Program Areas Served
None
$30,000.00
Description
Rejoice students receive valuable performing experience in a variety of venues which helps build self esteem and confidence. They receive positive affirmation from their performing experiences. Rejoice students are growing in self-esteem and in the ability to handle themselves in a variety of situations and cultures. Places Rejoice students have performed: Nashville Ballet 'Nutcracker,' Christ Church Cathedral First Friday Service, Christ Church Music and Worship Conference, Nashville Public Libraries, Schermerhorn Concert Hall, Trevecca University, East Park Community Center, and many area churches. Rejoice School of Ballet students have performed in the classical ballets 'Coppelia,' 'La Sylphide,' 'Les Sylphides' 'Peter and the Wolf,' 'La Fille Mal Gardee,' and 'Cinderella.' Original ballets: 'Growing Up Black in America,' 'The Little Engine That Could' and 'Saam Psalms-Together Songs.'
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$5,000.00
Description
Launched in 2016 to provide diverse students with mentors, leadership activities, and team-building pursuits, Rejoice's 4 Pillars Programming provides students with the opportunity to hear and interact with expert speakers in the areas of Health and Nutrition, Life Skills, Diversity Sensitivity, and Spiritual Formation. Rejoice's programs provide high quality ballet training and strategically planned positive youth development activities to promote each young person's development; programs are designed to foster self-confidence, resilience, independence, a sense of belonging, and community involvement. Long-term impacts include: providing social support to low-income families, encouraging healthy lifestyles through exercise and nutrition, reducing at-risk student behavior, and improving school performance.
Plans to engage the whole family are in place and will launch in 2023.
Program Areas Served
None
$5,000.00
Description
Launched in 2016 to provide diverse students with mentors, leadership activities, and team-building pursuits, Rejoice's 4 Pillars Programming provides students with the opportunity to hear and interact with expert speakers in the areas of Health and Nutrition, Life Skills, Diversity Sensitivity, and Spiritual Formation. Rejoice's programs provide high quality ballet training and strategically planned positive youth development activities to promote each young person's development; programs are designed to foster self-confidence, resilience, independence, a sense of belonging, and community involvement. Long-term impacts include: providing social support to low-income families, encouraging healthy lifestyles through exercise and nutrition, reducing at-risk student behavior, and improving school performance.
Plans to engage the whole family are in place and will launch in 2023.
Program Areas Served
None
CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments
| Rejoice Ministries has supported the Rejoice School of Ballet in North and East Nashville for 21 years. We started with 10 students in 1999 and even in the wake of COVID, anticipate enrolling close to 100 for the 2021-2022 school year. Families pay tuition for their dancer according to a sliding scale which makes Rejoice ballet classes accessible to anyone who is interested. Those families at the lowest income level pay a mere $17 per month for lessons, dance wear, costumes, and performance experience. Students study dance from one to 14 hours per week and are offered lessons in classical ballet, modern dance, modern dance, and tap. Rejoice added the Pre-Professional Track program in the fall of 2008 to accommodate those students who wish to pursue dance in college or as a career. These students, ages 8-18, study dance from 6-14 hours each week and perform in a recital and a classical ballet or original ballet once per year. Several students have received scholarships to pursue higher education. Rejoice students have many opportunities to perform. All students perform in a year end recital. Pre-Professional Track students perform in a classical or original ballet once per year. To date they have performed in 'Coppelia,' 'La Sylphides,' 'Les Sylphides,' 'Peter and the Wolf,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'La Fille Mal Gardee,' 'Cinderella,' 'Sleeping Beauty," and "Saam Psalms - Together Songs," an original ballet that addresses slavery, racism, and civil rights. In February of 2022, students will perform in "Carnival of the Animals" and an original ballet yet to be named that is being written and choreographed by Imani Sailers, an African American ballet dancer with Nashville Ballet. The music for this ballet will be "African Suite" by Nigerian composer, Fela Sowande. For the past ten years, several Rejoice students have performed in Nashville Ballet's 'Nutcracker.' Others danced at Christ Church Cathedral's First Friday Service, the Schermerhorn Concert Hall for 'Art is Good Business,' the Jr. League Decorator Show House, "Open Streets Nashville," nursing homes, community centers, churches, schools, and Nashville Public Libraries. |
