5:30 pm

General admission. Free of charge. Open to the public.

Hoogland Center for the Arts

LRS Theatre
420 S. Sixth St.

Springfield, IL 62701

Thank you to our Boys & Girls Clubs Ballet Outreach Program Sponsors: SCHEELS and Sunrise Rotary.

Join the dancers of the Springfield Ballet Company, our Academy Trainees and the participants of the SBC's Boys & Girls Clubs Ballet Outreach Program for an end-of-the-season recital at the Hoogland Center for the Arts.

Boys & Girls Clubs dancers will perform a classical ballet piece, as well as a jazz dance; and Training Academy dancers will perform a ballet selection. The evening will also include repertoire from recent and upcoming SBC productions.

Honors, recognitions and reception will be held immediately following the recital.

For details or more information, please contact SBC at 217-544-1967. 

The foundation of a healthy dancer, and a beautiful ballet, starts from the ground up.

 

The impact of the SBC dancers' feet turning, jumping and leaping across the dance floor causes wear and tear not just on the dancer's bodies, but can increase their risk of serious injury and wears down the flooring every week.  

 

Dance floors are made of a special material that helps absorb the shock of their movement and facilitates the turns and leaps of all types of dance. Other flooring, such as hardwood, linoleum, tile, concrete, etc., would be very damaging to a dancer's body!

 

SBC Floor Facts:

* 750-1,000 Hours PER dancer per year spent on a dance floor

*18,750+ Hours TOTAL for the 25 Company Dancers alone

* 618,000+ Hours over 33 Years (the combined age of the traveling floor and the floor in Theatre II at HCFTA)

* $18,000: The budget needed to replace and upgrade the traveling floor and the studio floor

 

Investing in new dance flooring will provide a safer environment for the dancers who work so hard every week to improve their technique and master choreography. We want to provide the best environment to keep the dancers healthy and injury-free. It may not be glamorous, but flooring is truly the foundation for the success and the beauty of the SBC.