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Article: No small passion: at San Francisco Ballet, outreach education is about changing the world.
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- Dance Magazine
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- June 1, 2003
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It's hard to talk to Charles Chip McNeal without getting excited. The San Francisco Ballet Center for Dance Education manager's enthusiasm for what he does is palpable, and he practically vibrates as he speaks. At his side, in a partnership so close that they finish each other's sentences, is Ballet Education Coordinator Evelyn Cisneros-Legate.
The Center for Dance Education was born in 2001 to consolidate San Francisco Ballet's outreach programs. SFB consulted with education development firm Artsvision to develop a five-year plan that built on already existing programs and which placed McNeal, who started at the company twenty-three years ago as an assistant ...