Community Connections

Community Ballet Program – Brantly Shapiro has been the artistic director and primary instructor of the Community Ballet program for over 25 years. Ballet technique classes are offered to kindergarten through high school aged children from Winston-Salem and the surrounding communities in the dance studio of the Scales Fine Arts Center at Wake Forest University. Pointe classes are offered to upper level students.

LOCAL THEATRE

Milton Rhodes Arts Center – home of Hanesbrand Theatre where Wake Forest Theatre, Music, and Dance faculty, student, and alumnus in collaboration with Festival Stage of Winston-Salem, present 33 Variations by Moises Kaufman February 1 – 24.

Theatre Alliance – “Over the years, the Theatre Alliance has produced shows in various venues, including the Reyn,olda House Museum of American Art, the Augsburg Community Center, Wake Forest University, and several years at SECCA. Productions have included a wide variety of adult contemporary comedies and dramas, smaller-scale musicals and area premieres of emerging works with wide-ranging themes.”

National Black Theatre Festival – “Larry Leon Hamlin founded the National Black Theatre Festival® (NBTF) in 1989. His goal was to unite black theatre companies in America and ensure the survival of the genre into the next millennium. Held biennially, NBTF attracts more than 65,000 people during the six-day event.”

Paper Lantern Theatre Company – “telling stories that push us to grow through creation, collaboration and risk.”

Twin City Stage – “We are the triad’s premier community theatre specializing in affordable, professional-quality productions. Formerly known as The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem.”

University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Drama) – “The School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts trains talented young men and women to be exciting, versatile and accomplished professionals.”