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Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 2007 but was founded in 1987 by choreographer and teacher Marla Hirokawa to allow her students to perform alongside professional dancers. She has choreographed nine original dance dramas and many other shorter works. The historic ballets her company performs tie in well with social studies curriculum in schools.
The dance academy at CBTB offers classes in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, flamenco, Pilates and yoga to children and adult students.
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Ongoing In-school residencies, based on one of CBTB’s historic ballets or a classroom subject, expose children to dance and engage them in the creative choreographic process. A teaching artist introduces the “classic” performance styles (ballet, modern and jazz), guides the students in the creation of their own dances, and helps prepare them for their own performance.