Founded in 2004,  We’ve proudly taught over 200 girls in the Scottdale Unified School Disrict our community~ life-long foundations of   Self Respect, Respect for Others and Self Accomplishment … Something we call Graceful Confidence !  Now girls who could never dream of going to ballet-art class can do so right in their own environment because of  Possibilities for All !  To encourage  Self -Respect from the excitement of learning on-line,  once registered we will   be sending each girl  in the mail their own Budding Ballerina totebag filled with  their own  Ballet-Art Portfolio , Ballet Journal , Leotard, Tights and the most magical piece  ~ their own pretty in pink  ballet slippers (PIPs) ! To build their Sense of Accomplishment they will once again recieve in the mail, their Certficate of Completion, TUTU and  to build Respect for Others, the completion of their lessons will earn another pair of  pretty in pink slippers (PIPs) for another young girl who waits in the wings to become a Budding Ballerina ! More deserving girls than we ever dreamed of reaching . You don’t have to sprout Wings, or a Tutu ~ just a Great Big Heart to become a Budding Ballerina Sponsor, Angel or Friend of the Arts !   As you know ~ even standing on their Tiptoes ~  the Tutu, the Tights, the Slippers, the Instruction will only remain a Dream without your support. Your commitment  to sponsor one Ballerina at a time for just $100.00  will plant the seeds for Possibilities for All   to grow  and assure the success of Budding Ballerinas Ballet-Art non-profit programming to to reach many deserving  girls,  far into the future! Please accept our appreciation of your invaluable support ahead of time.   Thank-you  Scottsdale League for the Arts, Scottsdale Culinary Festival and the Arizona Republic   for your recent grant that delivered the dream of becoming  a Ballerina to a group of deserving girls in our community ! Your generosity gives them the tools to fulfill their dreams, passions, and promises to themselves. These tools  build their reality of becoming whatever they put their minds and hearts into! Thank-you so very much!   www.scottsdaleculinaryfestival.org      What makes Budding Ballerinas Uniquely Different ?

Nowhere else is Ballet taught through the Arts ! Each lesson students are introduced to new Ballet movements. To truely own the movements they  sketch and paint themselves as Budding Ballerinas in their own Art Portfolio, performing these ballet movements, while listening to Musical Composers they will recognize and appreciate the rest of their lives ! All together, these girls are developing Self respect, their own sense of Accomplishment and Respect for others, Something  disappearing in our society, something we like to call ~ Graceful Confidence ! Our Mission ... is to increase self-empowerment and community cultural development for girls regardless or ability or income.  In a safe environment, we present unique opportunities of creative thought and physical expression through Art, Ballet Liturature and Music.  Budding Ballerinas commits itself to each students' success by empowering them to envision and achieve their potential through these various Art forms.  Moreover, Budding Ballerinas believes that ART is an integral catalyst of a healthy community and it presence creates opportunities of community.   Graceful Confidence comes with each step of ballet, musical note, each page turned, and each stroke of the paint brush ! our Premise ... … to remain conscious of Dance as an Art even when teaching the simplest beginning fundamentals. Art is experience, and nowhere does one experience Art so greatly as in Dance and Music. Budding Ballerinas' embraces the process of Learning as infinitely more valuable than the end product. Our goal is to awaken an Appreciation in all of our Budding Ballerina's ... for Movement, Grace, and Ballet within an environment sparked with wonder for all of the Arts! our Format ...    (click to see powerpoint presentation) our Goals ... 1. To ensure all students a safe and positive environment conducive to a diverse method of instruction while remaining stimulating (fun) and disciplined. 2. To increase the development of self respect, strengthen the respect for others while cultivating the value of self achievement. 3. To explore cultural awareness that is cultivated by physical, intellectual and aesthetic values, which in doing so will strengthen the student’s capacity for learning. 4. To continually be aware of the ever changing methods, skills, resources to better meet the need of our student’s artistic and intellectual growth. our Results ... learning the joy and esteem of Self Achievement in anything a Budding Ballerina chooses to do !