Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Ballet is for everyone. The diversity of our dancers and the blending of students and professionals on stage—hallmarks since our founding—importantly connect our student and community audiences with this art form that too often is perceived as being for only a few. Morevoer, a high-quality education is every child’s right. A high-quality education that builds cognitive, social, and emotional skills includes experiences with the arts as an audience member and as a participant.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
International Ballet Exchange
IBE's core program, Ballet Building Bridges, invites students of the Philadelphia public schools to participate in ballet as students, performers, and audience members. Each year, we provide, free, a 30-week ballet course to students in up to four Philadelphia public schools. The course unqiuely culminates with the students' participation in a fully staged story ballet along with guest professionals and advanced-level ballet students, performed for an audience of up to 1,500 students and educators from across Philadelphia.
As part of this program, we annually perform two fully staged story ballets for the students of the Philadelphia public schools. These performances, which have included the Donetsk Ballet on US tour, are exclusively for the students. To deepen the experience of seeing a ballet, we provide an educators' guide to the ballet, with pre- and post-performance classroom activities.
Consistent with our mission, IBE also annually presents a fully staged story ballet to the Greater Philadelphia community at an accessible location (free parking, nearby public transit stop) at affordable ticket prices.
Our performances consistently blend students and professionals on stage, and the diversity of our dancers has been a hallmark from our founding.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of free participants on field trips
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Number of audience members served in our two annual performances for the Philadelphia schools (two performances at venue capacity of 1,500 each). In 2020, could not perform in the schools.
Total number of paid seats filled for performances
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Our total number of paying audience members at our annual performance of a fully staged ballet for the community. In 2020, the global pandemic kept us off the stage.
Total number of performances
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Our total number of annual performances of fully staged ballets (two for the schools, two for the community). In 2020 we provided free content via access to two archived performances
Total number of classes offered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The total number of classes offered during the school year (30 weekly classes x the number of residency sites). In 2020 we served (virtually) 4 sites across the city.
Hours of expertise provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Hours of in-school ballet classes provided by IBE's teachers in residence
Total number of audience members
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Our total audiences for four performances (two for the schools; two for the community). In 2020 we served our audiences with online content.
Number of professional artists employed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
The number of professional guest artists participating in the fully staged ballets that we present. In 2020 nine guest artists danced in our original online content.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
1. To make ballet accessible to young people across Philadelphia through education and participation in performance and through the experience ballet as a performance art.
2. To share the experience of ballet to the Greater Philadelphia community through accessible, affordable ballet performances featuring diverse casts and that blend students and professionals on stage.
3. To provide performance opportunities for youth artists.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
• Our year-long ballet residencies for the Philadelphia public schools are provided by highly skilled professional educators and culminate in participation in a performance
• We offer performances of fully staged story ballets for the students of the School District of Philadelphia, local private and parochial schools, and home-schooled students. To deepen the experience of seeing a ballet, we provide an educator guide with information about the art form, the ballet, the artists and music, along with pre-and post-performance activities and resources for further learning.
• Our performances provide meaningful opportunities for local students of ballet to perform with professionals and to share their art with others.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have maintained our focus on these goals and strategies for more than two decades. Our dance educators bring extensive experience to their teaching. Complementing our longevity of operation and leadership, we have engaged a new generation of leadership for the organization.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have maintained consistent numbers over the years, and we seek to continue to do so while sustainably building partnerships and developing related outreach activities, such as joint performances with music education groups or teacher workshops.
We also seek to enhance our educational materials, using a range of delivery options (print, electronic, interactive).
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The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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International Ballet Exchange
Board of directorsas of 10/06/2021
Ellen Wert, PhD
Jerome Fisher, CPA
Joleen Miller
Tina Barber, MPA
Coralie François
Michele-Olivia François
Sheila Hawes, Esq.
Dawn Lacy
Kate Lombardi
Leslie Macedo
Christina Castro-Tauser, MFA, ex officio
Nancy Malmed, ex officio
Giselle Tirado
Catalina Walsh
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Gender identity
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Equity strategies
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- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.