Everybody Dance LA!
EDLA! transforms lives and communities through the power of dance. Our mission is to provide high-quality arts education to youth who live in low-income areas of Los Angeles. This cultivates lifelong skills of collaboration, discipline, and self-expression so youth become confident, engaged participants in their education, career, and community.
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LEARN ·2024 Grants ChallengeTransforming Lives through the Power of Dance
The grant will support expanding our After-School Program to Watts. The After-School Program promotes discipline, high expectations, performance, community building, parental involvement, and sequential, long-term training, allowing students to work toward technical mastery of specific dance forms through leveled classes that meet after-school and Saturday. Our rigorous dance curriculum increases students’ proficiency in dance skills; physical fitness; appreciation for dance and the arts; a sense of community; and positive self-development.
- LEARN ·2023 Grants Challenge
Transforming Lives through the Power of Dance
The grant will support expansion of our year-round After-School Program, which promotes discipline, high expectations, performance, community building, parental involvement, and sequential, long-term training, allowing students to work toward technical mastery of specific dance forms through leveled classes that meet twice weekly after-school and Saturday. Our rigorous dance curriculum increases students' proficiency in dance skills; physical fitness; appreciation for dance and the arts; a sense of community; and positive self-development.