HOW TO HELP
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Thomas Armour Youth Ballet
City of Angels Ballet
Dance for All
Brown Girls Do Ballet
Dancers Against Cancer
Dancing in the Streets Arizona
Pretty Brown Girl
City Ballet of Los Angeles
Pretty Girls Sweat
DNA Works
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How Can You Help?
Many organizations are already making great efforts to expand ballet to more diverse communities. The individuals behind these organizations face great hardship and fight daily to raise funds to continue to bring the art of ballet to the children in these communities. The Swan Dreams Project has already donated a number of images to help such organizations in some capacity, and with your help we can hopefully do more.
The Swan Dreams Project is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. Your contributions are tax deductible.
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You can also help by purchasing some of the imagery from the Project from our online shop.
Credit: Thaler Photography
Aesha has been a professional ballet dancer for 13 years. After attending the legendary School of American Ballet, she joined the New York City Ballet at the age of 18, where she remained for eight years dancing numerous soloist and principal roles. Aesha then joined the legendary Bejart Ballet, in Lausanne Switzerland, as a soloist. After enjoying success in Europe, she returned to the United States in 2005 where joined Alonzo King's Lines Ballet. After a tremendous amount of growth and learning, Aesha went freelance. She began working with Morphoses, founded by Christopher Wheeldon. Aesha has been featured in Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, Bazaar, Marie Claire, the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, to name a few. You will find Aesha featured in the New York City Ballet Workout II, Barbie Nutcracker, as well as the principal dance double for Zoe Saldana in the movie Center Stage.
Credit: Renee Scott
ABOUT ME
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MISSION
Through the use of imagery and my career as a ballet dancer, I want to help change the demoralized, objectified and caricatured images of African-American women by showing the world that beauty is not reserved for any particular race or socio-economic background. I wish for this message to infuse the ballet world and project to the entire world. While exposing more African-American communities to the ballet, I also hope to promote greater involvement and increase patronage to this beautiful art form.
The Swan Dreams Project's goal is to convey the message that beauty and talent are not constrained by race or socio-economic status. I want our youth to know that they are not limited by stereotypes nor by their environment, but only by their dreams.
GOAL
Art inspires, edifies and unites. A community without art is broken, unrealized. Children who participate in the arts are better socialized and have improved academic performance. However none of these benefits rebound to underserved communities due to the lack of access, finances and engagement to the arts, particularly ballet.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Credit: Paul Torreano at Seraphilm
