Greenwich Ballet Academy (GBA) announces a new program for children with Down syndrome. The program is modeled after one created by Boston Ballet and in which former Boston Ballet and Mariinsky ballerina, Keenan Kampa, actively participated. Kampa’s YouTube video about her adaptive dance work with the Jerome Lejeune Foundation in Paris is what initially inspired Olivia Thurman, a 17-year-old Greenwich Ballet Academy student, who alongside her partner, Lydia Currie of Convent of the Sacred Heart, offered GBA’s inaugural workshop this summer.
The classes are currently held from 5 to 6 p.m. on Saturdays at GBA’s Port Chester studios, 181 Westchester Avenue.
On Nov. 14 Keenan Kampa – the professional ballet dancer whose Adaptive Ballet work inspired Thurman’s idea will visit the GBA studios. Kampa will teach three master classes as well as visit the Adaptive Ballet class.
For more information call 914-305-4377, or visit Greenwichballetacademy.org
