Outreach
The Jefferson Dancers fills a community need and is dedicated to dance training, community education, and performance while serving as an emblem of Portland's youth. Their performances reach multi-cultural audiences of all ages. Performances educate the students, community, and the public about the values of striving for excellence in any given field and demonstrate the dancers' hard work, discipline, perseverance, and artistry.
2010-2011: Guest artists at the following venues: “Say Hey” event at MAC club; Hilton Hotel; The Portland Singing Christmas Tree; Mary Rieke elementary; Special Olympics Youth Rally; Creative Science School; Creston School; Oregon Education Associations; Catlin Gable; Jackson Middle; White Salmon, WA; Oregon Convention Center; Black History Celebration; Nike - Children’s Cancer; Rose City Music Festival; Whitman School Multi-Cultural Night; Oregon Nursing Alliance; International Auto Show; International Auto Show Flash Mob; Oregon Women in Higher Education - Governor Hotel; Mt Hood Community College; World Arts Foundation; Highland Christian Center - MLK Celebration.
International Tour: 2010-2011 • Florence, Livorno, Venice, Pisa & Rome Italy
2009-2010: Guest artists at the following venues: Travel Portland; MercyCorp; Cleveland High School; Holt International - Ethiopia Orphanages; Tongan Celebration; Great City Schools Celebration; The Portland Singing Christmas Tree; Beauty & The Beast -Newmark Theater; Blue Cross-Blue Shield - MLK Celebration; Highland Christian Center - MLK Celebration; Clackamas High School - celebrate Diversity; Lincoln High School; Volunteers of America celebration; Oregon Nursing Association; Boise Eliot; Oakley Green; Portland Vocal Consort’s “Best of the Northwest: King Elementary; Riverdale High School; Regence - Kenya Fundraiser; Catlin Gable School; Scappoose High School; Young Audiences of America; Rosa Parks Multi-Cultural Night; Grant High School; KOIN 6 - Live at 4:00 show.
National Tour: 2009-2010 • Miami, Florida - National Performing Arts High School Dance Festival
2008-2009: Guest artists at the following venues: Oregon Cultural Trust; Cleveland High School; Holt International - Ethiopia Orphanages; St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church - Kenya celebration; Eugene Yuletide celebration with the Eugene Symphony; Portland State University; Highland Christian Center - MLK Celebration; White Salmon, WA; Hood River, OR; Clackamas High School; King Elementary; Gospel Festival - Straight Talk; Nemo Design; Boise Eliot; Riverdale High School; Riverdale Elementary School; Robert Gray Middle; Creston School; Tower Theater - Bend, OR; Nike; National Tap Dance Festival; Jefferson High School 100th year celebration.
International Tour: 2008-2009 • Dreiech, Wiesbaden & Frankfurt, Germany
2006-07 outreach performances included: Back to School Night at Jefferson High School; lecture demonstrations at Sunrise Middle School, Ockley Green Middle; dress rehearsal for area elementary and middle schools; Open Arms International; Oregon Association for Court Administrators; Portland Oregon Visitors Association; Warm Springs Tribes; Boise Eliot Elementary; Clatskanine Arts Commission; Portland Business Journal; University of Portland International Night; Martin Luther King Celebration; Eugene Symphony; CARES NW; American School in London and local high schools in and around Paris and Aix en Provence, France.
2005-06 outreach performances included: James John Elementary; Sabin Elementary; Lake Oswego High School; Scappoose High School; White Salmon Elementary; Kellogg Middle School; Portland Center Stage; BESC Teacher In Service; Portland Business Journal; Celebrate Arts with Portland Public Schools, Katrina Relief; Portland Oregon Visitors Association; Peacemakers Conference; National High School Dance Festival, Miami Florida; lecture demonstrations and classes in Newport, Oregon; Portland Schools Foundation, Ainsworth Elementary.
2002-03 outreach performances included: Nike; Back to School Night at Jefferson High School; Jack, Will, Rob Center at Camas; Astoria High School, Astoria; OPB Artbeat; Cascade Aids Benefit at Governor Hotel; MLK Celebration at University of Portland; Clackamas High School; Boise Eliot Elementary; Providence Health Systems Diversity Committee; Pendleton Community Arts.
2001-02 outreach performances included: da Vinci Middle School; Ockley Green Middle School; Tubman Middle School; Sunset Elementary School; Sunrise Middle School; Chiles Center, University of Portland Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday performance; Boise-Eliot Elementary School, United Negro College Fund at the Benson Hotel; La Salle High School, University Park Community Center; Portland Public Schools at the Newmark Theatre, Portland Association for the Support of the Arts (PASA), Rose Festival at the Schnitzer Theatre.
