CSB Scholarship Fund

During the 2023/24 Season of Discovery, CSB celebrates the 12th season as a nonprofit! Centennial State Ballet is your nonprofit youth ballet company, serving performers and students in Kindergarten through Senior Year of high school (or the equivalent) across Colorado’s Front Range. With a mission to engage, enrich, and inspire the human spirit, CSB is proud to share the art of ballet locally to in-person audiences as well as via livestream and On Demand to viewers near and far!

For performers, participation promotes and cultivates a variety of soft skills in preparation for a dancer’s future endeavors, whether or not they choose to pursue dance as a professional career. During the rehearsal process, youth company members must learn to be attentive, detail-oriented self-advocates who are aware of their responsibilities and the needs of those around them. They learn to work collaboratively to solve problems and to respond respectfully and kindly when others need their help. They develop a strong work ethic via this process, remaining committed to their own excellence as well as the collaborative success of the overall production. During performance, the dancers must perform with clarity and honesty before an audience. They must react proactively to the challenges that live performance can bring, be it a different tempo in accompaniment or a misstep on stage. Through live performance, dancers realize they can prepare and work to improve their personal success; however, the overall success of the production requires the cooperation of hundreds of individuals, including staff and volunteers. These powerful lessons are tools that, when coupled with desire, embody joy throughout the performing arts.