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Pathway Partnership

A Collaboration Between California Dance Institute and Westside Ballet of Santa Monica

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Why It Matters

Every child deserves the opportunity to explore their potential.

The Pathways Partnership helps identify talented young dancers and provides the training, mentorship, and support they need to thrive. For some students, a first dance class at school can become the beginning of a lifelong journey in the arts.

The next extraordinary dancer could be sitting in a classroom today, waiting to be discovered.

We are excited to announce the Pathways Partnership, a first-of-its-kind alliance between California Dance Institute (CDI) and Westside Ballet of Santa Monica. Together, we are creating a direct pathway from school-based dance classes to world-class ballet training, ensuring that talent, not circumstance, determines a child's opportunity to succeed.

Designed to expand access to high-quality dance education, the Pathways Partnership is opening doors for children with a passion and natural gift for dance; children who might otherwise never have the opportunity to discover where their talent could take them.

Many families face barriers to arts participation, including the cost of tuition, dancewear and supplies, transportation challenges, and limited access to dance programs in their schools and communities. Through this partnership, those barriers are removed, making dance training and artistic opportunity accessible to more children than ever before.

Through the Pathways Partnership, students benefit from:

Free weekly in-school dance classes taught jointly by CDI and Westside Ballet
Expanded CDI programming in under-resourced schools
Access to Westside Ballet's Dance to Dreams summer program
Full scholarships (including all shoes, supplies, and transportation) to Westside Ballet for CDI students with a passion and aptitude for ballet