CityDance’s Early Arts & Community Programs division is a recognized leader of high
quality programming for our city’s most underserved students. Over the last 16 years
we have reached tens of thousands of DC metropolitan area students with our free
community education programs - after-school programming, summer camps, in-school
arts integration programs and free professional performances.

Last year, CityDance’s Early Arts & Community Programs was awarded the DC Mayor’s
Arts Award for Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education. This award is due in no
small part to our valued partnerships with other community-based organizations, such
as D.A.R.E. America, the Sitar Center, KIPP DC Charter Schools, DC Public Schools (direct
contracts), the Perry School, KidPowerDC, the Levine School of Music and others.

Also at the core of this success is our flagship DREAM program, which uses dance as a
vehicle to teach students how to become advocates for change in their own lives and in
their communities.

To learn more about DREAM, and our other programs, visit our Programs page.