Presidio Dance Theatre's DANCE OUT! education and outreach program expanded this session to include 4 locations at Robert Louis Stevenson School (Sunset District); Lafayette School (Richmond District); New Traditions (Panhandle); Presidio Dance Theatre Academy (Marina District). For the 11th year, DANCE OUT! is offered to K-5th graders at no cost each school semester. Currently, nearly 150 boys and girls are receiving free dance classes two times per week. The school year will end with DANCE OUT! students performing at the Presidio Dance Theatre's annual Spring Showcase Recital at the Palace of Fine Arts, May 22. Participating students attend: Lilienthal, Sunset, Peabody, Cobb, New Traditions, Lafayette, Feinstein, Francis Scott Key, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lawton, Jefferson, Ulloa, and Alamo elementary schools. This program is funded in part by the California Arts Council/National Endowment for the Arts and matched by the Jackson and Keon Family Funds.
