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9th Annual Masquerade Ball GALA
DanceSport Education • Oct 04, 2019
A Black Tie Fundraiser for DanceSport Education
Join us for an unforgettable evening! Ladies and gentlemen, get your beautiful gowns and tuxedos, grab your masks, and come enjoy an evening of elegance, delicious food, champagne, and a great show. Try your dance moves on the GALA open dance floor!
EVENT HOSTS: Imperial Ballroom Dance Company
and DanceSport Education.
MASTER OF CEREMONY: Artem Plakhotnyi,
our favorite world-class ballroom dance professional, Imperial Ballroom's owner and DanceSport Education Co-Founder will MC the event.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Diana Diaz-Harrison, lead founder and CEO of Arizona Autism Charter Schools, the first autism focused public school in Arizona. She is recognized with The Rosa Carrillo Torres Humanitarian Award for her significant humanitarian efforts and contributions to the community, at the Profiles of Success 2019 Hispanic Leadership Awards. She is also recognized with the Women Achievers of Arizona Award, for her work every day to make a difference in the lives of Arizonans. She is Cox Communications Arizona 2018 Latino Leader Honoree, recognized for her cultural and social contributions to our state.
LIVE MUSIC:
Mosaico 2.0 - Alex Hristov
on acoustic guitar and Max Perrault
on flute, two of Arizona's best musical talents will perform live during presentations and dinner time. Hear some of the best Latin, Jazz and Flamenco tunes.
"WE ARE THE WORLD": Enjoy an AMAZING Musical Theater Show production by Imperial Ballroom’s top students and students from Arizona Autism Charter Schools, participating in the DanceSport Education program. The show is produced by the talented Inna Berlizyeva, world-class ballroom dance professional, Imperial Ballroom's owner and DanceSport Education Co-Founder.
PROFESSIONAL SHOW:
Take your seat for the best professional ballroom dance show! Enjoy an incredible performance featuring Imperial Ballroom Dance Company’s professionals, as well as special top US guest professionals from around the country!
Masquerade Ball Gala is our exquisite black-tie fundraiser GALA event, which will get you in a great festive mood for the upcoming holidays. Perfect for singles, couples, dancers, and anyone who just would like to dress up for a fun, entertaining night out! Kids friendly!
You will not want to miss one of the most elegant parties in Scottsdale and help us raise money for a great cause - children, education and ballroom dance.
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE
-check out our Sponsorship Package! Your sponsorship will directly support the critical need to increase the number of children in Arizona who engage in ballroom dance as a physical activity to build life-long healthy habits. We hope you will consider sponsoring at the Masquerade Ball GALA and join our efforts to help shape a generation of healthy and thriving children and youth!
TICKETS
are on sale at mbgala.dance. Last year the GALA was a SOLD-OUT event. Get your tickets early!
* Tickets for the Gala are at cost. If you would like to make a donation to DanceSport Education, please, use the DONATE NOW
button to get to our secure online terminal.
Proud to Show What Our AZ Autism Charter School Students CAN Do!!!
Every day, our committed employees work to support the community we serve. Now, they need our help. Our organization is committed to ensuring that our employees are able to maintain financial stability and provide day-to-day necessities for their families during the coronavirus crisis. We bring the benefits of ballroom dance to the students at their schools, in their classrooms. But due to COVID outbreak, Arizona schools are now mandated to close through the end of the school year and out employees have lost their source of income. Their situation is further aggravated by the Stay-At-Home order issued for the state of Arizona. Our organization’s most urgent goal is to retain our highly qualified and specially trained personnel, who work with children with autism. Such personnel is rare to find and costly to train and retain. Under normal circumstances, our professionals are long-term committed to the program – however if we lose them because of the COVID-19 disaster, it would be virtually impossible to reinstate the program. Retaining our personnel is critical not only to the existence of the program, but also to the ultimate recipient – children with autism in a school set-up. We kindly ask that you join us in supporting our dedicated employees. Your gift will help provide immediate financial support so they can purchase essential food, medicines, and other supplies. Help keep our employees safe and healthy so they can eventually return to their work serving our community.
INVEST IN US! Let me share why you should invest in us. We are a small 501(c)(3) non-profit and we bring the benefits of ballroom dance to the students, at their schools, in their classrooms with the highest level of instruction! We make the art of ballroom dance affordable and accessible to all students, especially for those that are low income and at risk. This year, for the first time in Arizona we are bringing the benefits of ballroom dance to 230 K-12 students with autism at the Arizona Autism Charter Schools. It is Arizona's Only Autism-Focused Tuition-Free Charter public school. Students enrolled at this school are on the autism spectrum with varying degrees of intellectual/developmental disabilities. AZ Autism Charter School serves over 40% low income students. 15% of the students are African-American,1% American Indian, 5% - Asian, 51% - Hispanic and 28% white. The ballroom dance experience at the school is part of the students’ project-based life skills curriculum. Many studies and research findings have supported the positive implication of dance therapy to people with autism. We are at the school 4 days /week, delivering 40 ballroom dance classes every week. The impact of ballroom dance that we see is INCREDIBLE, especially with the highest impacted students! We take so many things for granted, including the ability to move, speak, coordinate our body and socialize. Our students need to learn all this, and the art of ballroom dance is helping them tremendously. These students enjoy, love and thrive in our classes. Until our program, they had no such opportunity available to them, alone an opportunity to express themselves in public and show what they CAN do. Please help us get the full $3,000 match by making your tax-deductible donation today. The funds will be used for rehearsals and extended support during their public event performances. This is an unprecedented commitment toward these students with special needs. They want and need to show to the public what they CAN do. This is the first of such successful efforts in Arizona! These students need your support! Say "YES" to them! We are their HOPE! All #AzGivesDay donations are *tax-deductible and will go toward rehearsals and extended support during their public event performances. Please help us get the full $3,000 match by making your tax-deductible donation today. THANK YOU! We are sincerely grateful for those who support our mission and enable us to bring the benefits of ballroom dance to the students with special needs, at their schools, in their classrooms. www.azgives.org/DanceSportEducation *The $2 trillion stimulus package includes the Charitable Giving Incentive, which lifts the existing cap on annual contributions for those who itemize, raising it from 60 percent of adjusted gross income to 100 percent. For corporations, the bill raises the annual limit from 10 percent to 25 percent. Elka Hristova Co-Founder and Director DanceSport Education
