BalletRox
BalletRox, founded in 1995, uses the power of dance to break down barriers and create new opportunities for Boston's at-risk youth, while improving the community's artistic experience through the creation of a diverse dance company. BalletRox provides scholarships for 15 inner-city youth, who are 67 percent Latino, 17 percent African American, 2 percent Asian, 2 percent Caucasian, and 92 percent female, to attend the Jamaica Plain School of Dance where they learn the fundamentals of ballet, jazz, tap, modern, and hip-hop dance. At the school, scholarship students are integrated with students from throughout Boston and its suburbs. BalletRox also produces the critically acclaimed Urban Nutcracker, the holiday dance classic with an inner-city edge. Ninety percent of students at BalletRox perform in the Urban Nutcracker.Visit the BalletRox Web site
Media Coverage
Krumping and the Worm After School at the Ohrenberger
By David Ertischek, West Roxbury Transcript
June 4, 2008
Tapping Into "Urban Nutcracker"
By Andrea Shea, WBUR
December 14, 2007
Urban Cheek
By Marcia L. Siegel, Boston Phoenix
December 11, 2007
BalletRox and the Urban Nutcracker interview on To The Pointe