dance education

Financial Aid for Classes

Youth Scholarships

Keshet’s goal is to ensure that everyone, no matter what ability level or financial status, has the opportunity to dance. Therefore, Keshet offers unlimited, noncompetitive scholarships to youth under 18 participating in the community class program. No one will be turned away and registration is ongoing. Class registrations and youth scholarship applications are accepted throughout each session.  Families are asked to “pay as they are able” and then show support for their children’s classes by fulfilling a small volunteer commitment.

During Keshet’s most recently completed fiscal year, over $70,000 in financial aid was awarded to dancers of all ages. Scholarship applications must accompany a completed class registration form. A scholarship application forms can be completed in person 15 min. prior to the start of class time.

Download Youth Scholarships Paperwork click titles below:

Volunteer Skills Interests Availability Form 2018

• Scholarship Application Fall Winter 18
• Youth Registration Form Fall Winter ’18 update
• Youth IAR Fall Winter 18 Update

Adult Work/Study Program (ages 18+)

• Keshet is looking for motivated and enthusiastic people to join our support team! Keshet’s Work/Study Program is an exchange of hours worked for hours of dance class on a 1:1 ratio. Therefore, for every hour worked, participants are eligible for one hour of dance instruction within Keshet’s Community Class Schedule. The WorkStudy Program will no longer be per dance session, but instead, every three months. We will have 4 of these 3 month periods. Applications for the upcoming WorkStudy Period 1 will be due on: December 15. Applications received after this date will be reviewed for the next period.
• If you only want to participate for part of a period or dance for half a session, we can plan together, we are very flexible. Applicants must be 18 or older to apply and must participate in an interview an orientation/ training prior to acceptance into the program. No dance experience is necessary. Call, stop by or click on the link below for more information. 
  Periods: 

1: January 1 – March 31
2: April 1 – June 30
3: July 1 – September 31
4: October 1 – December 31

• Information WS Period 1’19
• WS Application Period 1’19
  
• Download Adult Dance Class Paperwork:
• Adult Registration Form Fall Winter 18 update
• Adult IAR Winter Fall 18 Update

With Keshet’s International Dance Festival and Makers Space, various guest artists from across the globe come to Keshet Center for the Arts to create and/or showcase work. Guest Artist Master Classes are open to the public. For details on Master Class Schedules – CLICK HERE

Community Engagement

Keshet in the Community

Since its inception in 1996, Keshet’s talented teaching faculty has been connecting community members with dance in an effort to build a stronger community. Programming includes workshops, classes, and performances in libraries, youth shelters, detention centers, schools and community centers throughout New Mexico. Participants in Keshet’s Community Engagement gain self-confidence and self-discipline by challenging themselves to use their bodies in new ways and by working together with instructors and other participants.

Custom classes are available for cross-training athletes and teams:
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Keshet’s on-going community engagement includes:

M3 Program at Youth Diagnostic and Development Center (YDDC)/Foothill High School

Keshet’s outreach facilitators teach daily dance classes as part of the high school curriculum on site at YDDC, New Mexico’s state juvenile detention facility, using dance to teach literacy skills, math skills and conflict resolution skills. Keshet also has a pre-release and post-release program to continue mentoring students while they transition out of the facility, providing a structured mentorship program through the parole and reintegration process. – LEARN MORE

Title 1 Homeless Project

The Title 1 Homeless Project is an after-school program that provides academic tutoring and a hot meal to homeless children in Albuquerque. As part of the program, Keshet’s outreach facilitators teach 8-10 classes per week at elementary, middle and high schools throughout the city, reaching approximately 250 homeless youth annually.

“Keshet has brought joy to our students. You have enriched our children’s lives significantly.” – Helen Fox and Katy Braziel, Title I Homeless Project Coordinators

Adult Support Services

Keshet faculty teach a weekly creative movement class at Keshet Center for the Arts for partners who provide assistance to adults with disabilities.

Booking Keshet

Keshet customizes programs to meet the needs of the participating organization. Keshet is always looking for ways to provide more community members with the opportunity to dance. If you know of an organization that may be interested in Keshet’s Community Engagement, please contact us at 505-224-9808 or email Ana@KeshetArts.org

Examples of Community Engagement classes include: senior activity centers, pre-schools, high school dance teams, homeschool groups, City of Albuquerque – library classes

“Keshet Dance is an excellent example of using the arts to help our young people help themselves.” Alexander D. Crary, Former Chief of Staff, National Endowment for the Arts