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The Washington Ballet values the community in which it resides and endeavors to serve the region through extensive education, audience enrichment and engagement programs.  TWB has a special focus on influencing the lives of children through its signature in-school program, DanceDC, which serves young people in five wards of the District of Columbia. 

In 2005, TWB partnered with other community organizations to open the Town Hall Education, Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC) in Ward 8 THEARC, a joint-use facility that delivers first-rate programs and services of a cultural, health, recreation and human development nature to residents east of the Anacostia River, has unlocked the power of dance to thousands of residents through this inventive partnership, and serves as a second campus for The Washington School of Ballet. 

TWB's EXCEL! scholarship program enables DanceDC students to study ballet free of charge and watch subsidized performances of The Nutcracker and other family ballets by The Washington Ballet.  Other community engagement activities include Dancing Together/Coming Together, a program designed to integrate students and their families from TWB's schools in Northwest DC and at THEARC to facilitate greater understanding and mutual respect for their varied ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds; need-based scholarships for students at our Northwest and Southeast campuses totaling more than $140,000; pre-performance inthewings discussions and post-performance Ballettalkes led by Artistic Director Septime Webre to engage and educate dance audiences; open rehearsals at TWB studios that give community members a glimpse of ballets in-progress; and Studio Company performances.

For more information on Community Engagement programs, click here and see our Community Engagement brochure.

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