VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL

What they do

FRESNO BALLET THEATER: IN 1997, YUKARI THIESEN FOUNDED THE FRESNO BALLET THEATER FBT, FORMERLY NAMED FRESNO DANCE THEATRE. THIS STUDENT BALLET COMPANY is OPEN to ALL BALLET STUDENTS and NON-BALLET STUDENTS PROVIDED THERE ARE ROLES IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY. GROWING UP AT THE MATSUYAMA BALLET SCHOOL, AFFILIATED WITH MATSUYAMA BALLET, THEN THE LARGEST PROFESSIONAL BALLET COMPANY IN TOKYO. IT PROVIDES THE STUDENTS A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING of THE GOAL to BE ACHIEVED BY OBSERVING and WORKING WITH THE PROFESSIONALS. CUMULATIVELY, THIS ORGANIZATION HAS REACHED 132,000 SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM 25 SCHOOL DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THIS CALIFORNIA CENTRAL VALLEY. FBT PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES to BALLET STUDENTS to WORK WITH THE STATE STREET BALLET of SANTA BARBARA and ITS ARTISTIC STAFF MAGEN PHILIPP and CECILY MACDOUGALL ON A SPRING BALLET PRODUCTION. THE FRESNO BALLET THEATRE and THE STATE STREET BALLET of SANTA BARBARA COLLABORATED to DRAW ON DANCE and ARTISTIC FORCES WITHIN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY COMMUNITY for