Rejoice Ministries
Programs
Budget
$5,000.00
Description
Read to Me, Dance with Me is an interactive story-time for children aged 18 months to 8 years old. Classical music and interactive storytelling by Rejoice's teaching artists combine to help kids move and explore the world around them. This program encourages adding music and creative movement to reading time. Read to Me is presented to the public at community centers and libraries but also offered at preschools.
Beneficiaries
Children
Infants and Toddlers
Families
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
$5,000.00
Description
Read to Me, Dance with Me is an interactive story-time for children aged 18 months to 8 years old. Classical music and interactive storytelling by Rejoice's teaching artists combine to help kids move and explore the world around them. This program encourages adding music and creative movement to reading time. Read to Me is presented to the public at community centers and libraries but also offered at preschools.
Beneficiaries
Children
Infants and Toddlers
Families
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
Budget
$100,000.00
Description
Rejoice School of Ballet trains dancers from ages 4-18 in the art of classical ballet and other dance disciplines. At Rejoice, students from all backgrounds can step up to the barre with confidence, explore their creativity, and discover their limitless potential in an inclusive and uplifting environment. Because we believe every child deserves to access the lifelong benefits of dance education, we offer sliding-scale tuition, need-based scholarships, and free ballet uniforms and costumes to our students. Under the guidance and mentorship of our dedicated teaching professionals, our students challenge themselves and develop fundamental skills that prepare them for careers on or off the stage. Whether students go on to pursue a dance career or not, the skills, resilience, and friendships they make along the way at Rejoice will last them a lifetime.
Category
Youth Development - Youth Development, General/Other
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
East, North, Southeast Nashville
$100,000.00
Description
Rejoice School of Ballet trains dancers from ages 4-18 in the art of classical ballet and other dance disciplines. At Rejoice, students from all backgrounds can step up to the barre with confidence, explore their creativity, and discover their limitless potential in an inclusive and uplifting environment. Because we believe every child deserves to access the lifelong benefits of dance education, we offer sliding-scale tuition, need-based scholarships, and free ballet uniforms and costumes to our students. Under the guidance and mentorship of our dedicated teaching professionals, our students challenge themselves and develop fundamental skills that prepare them for careers on or off the stage. Whether students go on to pursue a dance career or not, the skills, resilience, and friendships they make along the way at Rejoice will last them a lifetime.
Category
Youth Development - Youth Development, General/Other
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
East, North, Southeast Nashville
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.'
In 2023 and 2024, Rejoice Youth Ensemble performed original ballets presented with live music
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
$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.'
In 2023 and 2024, Rejoice Youth Ensemble performed original ballets presented with live music
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
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. |
