Winner, 2009 Ovation Award for Outstanding Dance Performance
Winner, 2010 Ovation Award for Outstanding Arts Organization
Winner, 2011 Cobb County Creating Communities Award
Winner, 2011 Kennesaw State University Flourish Award
Winner, 2011, 2007 Outstanding Partner in Education
Winner, 2011 Ovation Award for Outstanding Arts Educators

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The Georgia Ballet's 2011-2012 Parent Annual Fund Drive

WHEN YOU GIVE TO THE GEORGIA BALLET’S ANNUAL FUND,
YOU ARE GIVING TO YOUR DANCER AND YOUR COMMUNITY.

The Georgia Ballet offers excellent training with knowledgeable, caring instructors in a nurturing environment. The Ballet builds leaders by teaching work ethic, organization, self-confidence and social skills that will serve your dancer all of his/her life.

Dance training offered at The School at the Georgia Ballet is second to none with an exceptionally high number of students securing acceptances and scholarships to the most prestigious ballet institutions in the country. We recruit recognized leaders in dance education to our own summer program and permanent faculty.

Ticket sales and tuition do not cover the Ballet’s operating expenses. The actual cost of tuition for your dancer is 30% higher than what you pay. To make dance more accessible, the Ballet subsidizes both its ticket sales and tuition. That is why the Ballet needs to raise additional funds. Your gift in any amount is appreciated and important. Please give today and help us achieve 100% Parent/Student Annual Fund participation.

Click here for Donor Benefit Levels

THE GEORGIA BALLET'S 2011-2012 PARENT ANNUAL FUND DRIVE CO-CHAIRS
Marshall & Michelle Coleman and Wes & Jill Sebaugh

There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do to help prepare for my children for the challenging world that lay before them. With five daughters, both the challenges and opportunities are tremendous. As parents we strive to find activities that are both enjoyable to our daughters and similarly edifying. The training they have received at The Georgia Ballet has amply satisfied both of those requirements. Chicago Academy of Arts instructor and choreographer Anna Paskevska has said, "Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners." Marcia Haydee remarked, "It is more important who students are as people, and only then is it important who they are as dancers." Indeed, it is important, and nowhere more so than at The Georgia Ballet.

Since first placing a daughter there four years ago as a nine-year-old, we have seen the tremendous impact her association with The Georgia Ballet instructors and dancers has had on her. We've since put our eight-year-old in class as well. Can you think of anything that can bring our great young people together with more focus, energy and passion than in the performance of high art like ballet? The countless hours working together on performances such as last year's Pinnochio and the annual The Nutcracker have taught our daughters what it is to be excellent at something they love. These lessons spill over into other areas of their lives like academics and spiritual devotion. We love the beautiful young women The Georgia Ballet has helped our daughters become and we think you will love it for your child, too.

The Coleman Family

Marshall Coleman

Our two daughters have been students at The Georgia Ballet for the past 7 years and we have been pleased to watch their technical skills grow and develop. The Georgia Ballet has provided an environment which encourages high standards of behavior, offers good role models, promotes healthy habits, and encourages students to work hard. The teachers provide excellent technique training and promote performance skills in a manner that is age appropriate and congruent with our family values of self-respect and modesty.

Jill Sebaugh

The Sebaugh Family

Please give generously to The Georgia Ballet's 2011-12 Parent Annual Fund.

Your gift, at any level, is a gift to your dancer and your community.

Gifts can be made on PayPal or directly to The Georgia Ballet.

Make checks payable to The Georgia Ballet and mail to:

The Georgia Ballet
PO Box 440281
Kennesaw, Georgia 30160

Or drop off at the office. Download 2011-12 Parent Annual Fund Donation Form

One-time credit card payments can be made at the office or over the phone. Consider a monthly gift that can be added to your tuition.

2011-2012 Donor Benefits

Iris Hensley Society ($5,000 and above)

4 tickets to The Nutcracker 2012
2 tickets to the fall 2012 performance
2 tickets to Swirling Soiree 2013
Invitation to special donor events with members of the Company and artistic staff for Principal Level donors and above
Footnotes, The Georgia Ballet e-newsletter
Listing on Donor page of 2012-13 season performance playbill
(value of benefits: $200)

Choreographer ($2,500 - $4,999)

2 tickets to The Nutcracker 2012
2 tickets to the fall 2012 performance
2 tickets to Swirling Swirling 2013
Invitation to special donor events with members of the Company and artistic staff for Principal Level donors and above
Subscription to Footnotes, The Georgia Ballet e-newsletter
Listing on Donor page of 2012-13 season performance playbill
(value of benefits: $150)

Patron ($1,000 - $2,499)

2 tickets to the fall 2012 performance
2 tickets to Swirling Soiree 2013
Invitation to special donor events with members of the Company and artistic staff for Principal Level donors and above
Footnotes, The Georgia Ballet e-newsletter
Listing on Donor page of 2012-13 season in performance playbill
(value of benefits: $90)

Principal ($500-$999)

2 tickets to Swirling Soiree 2013
Invitation to special donor events with members of the Company and artistic staff for Principal Level donors and above
Footnotes, The Georgia Ballet e-newsletter
Listing on Donor page of 2012-13 season performance playbill
(value of benefits: $35)

Soloist ($250 - $499)

Invitation to annual donor event with members of the Company, artistic staff and other donors
2 tickets to Swirling Soiree 2013
Subscription to Footnotes, The Georgia Ballet e-newsletter
Listing on Donor page of 2012-13 season performance playbill
(value of benefits: $35)

Corps de Ballet ($100 - $249)

Invitation to annual donor event with the Company, artistic staff and other donors
Footnotes, The Georgia Ballet e-newsletter
Listing on Donor page of 2012-13 season performance playbill

Apprentice ($30 to $99)

Subscription to Footnotes, The Georgia Ballet e-newsletter
Listing on Donor page of 2012-13 season performance playbill

Donations made from July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012 will be acknowledged in the 2012-2013 season playbill and in 2011-12 playbill performance inserts.

If you have questions about these benefits, please contact Allison Fichter, Development Director at 770.528.0881 or afichter@georgiaballet.org

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!