Through the performing arts, the program teaches basic academic and life skills to 3- to 5-year-olds...
You had a rough time with education, and ended up at the performing arts Brit School, which taught Adele and Amy Winehouse.
When I needed help with the big feathered fans we also used in the show, I found someone in the performing arts who could teach me.
Philippa Vafadari, artistic director of BandBazi, a performing arts company in Brighton, teaches two adult aerial classes a week.
In 1988, with Michael Scherker, she founded Preserve Inc., an organization that taught performing arts organizations and interested people how to create and maintain archives, and conducted workshops nationwide.
"I think it's imperative that organizations like Odunde carry on the legacy of our culture," says Duane Wilkins, CEO, Messiah Danceworks Productions, a Philadelphia-based performing arts organization that occasionally teaches African dance and African drumming at the Marian Anderson recreational center during the Odunde 365 Saturday afternoon classes.
At the same time they founded (and named after Bennett's friend) the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens, a public high school dedicated to teaching the performing arts, which opened in 2001 and would have a very high graduation rate.
Anna Faulkner, communications and events manager at the Central School of Speech & Drama, also in London, says one of the factors that influences applicants is "whether their secondary school embraces the teaching of performing arts".
She also teaches at a performing arts school on a Saturday morning.
Although some of the performing arts are learned informally, others are taught formally at music and dance academies.
