Episode 18: Cecelia Beam

The Adult Ballet Studio has another special guest for this episode! Cecelia Beam, faculty member for adult ballet and dance classes for people with Parkinson’s at San Francisco Ballet, is in the studio.

Cecelia is a former dancer, training at School of American Ballet in New York City and graduating from the high school ballet program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. After dancing in Oakland, California, North Carolina, Indiana and New York, Cecelia found teaching. She earned a master’s degree in ballet at Indiana University and has taught ballet at universities and private ballet schools, including Mills College, Indiana University, and San Francisco Ballet School. 

She has a passion for teaching ballet for adults, and in addition to that, she manages and is the lead teacher for San Francisco Ballet School’s Dance Class for People with Parkinson’s and has coordinated San Francisco Ballet Adult Education Programs for more than 15 years.

She shared some of the ways she structures her classes to make them as inclusive as possible while remaining committed to ballet technique and challenging her students. She also talked about the ways she’s seen ballet change throughout her time studying it, and where she hopes things are headed in the future. Check it out!

• Learn more about Cecelia and her classes at SF Ballet: https://www.sfballet.org/artist/cecelia-beam/ 
• Learn about Cecelia’s work with the Parkinson’s Foundation: https://www.parkinson.org/living-with-parkinsons/stories/cecelia-beam 
• Donate to the Parkinson’s Foundation: Donate here!
• Learn about SF Ballet’s adult program and Dance Class for People with Parkinson’s: https://www.sfballet.org/school-community/adult-programs/parkinsons/
• Email Cecelia: ceceliasballetclass@gmail.com 

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Music in this episode:

Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky

Barroom Ballet - Silent Film Light - Kevin MacLeod

Barroom Ballet - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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