{"id":251,"date":"2024-02-15T04:53:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T04:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swflballet.com\/home\/?page_id=251"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:10:15","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.swflballet.com\/home\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div aria-label=\"Carousel Gallery\" class=\"wp-block-coblocks-gallery-carousel alignfull\"><div class=\"coblocks-gallery-carousel-swiper-container is-cropped coblocks-gallery has-border-radius-20 has-caption-style-dark has-horizontal-gutter has-lightbox has-no-thumbnails\"><div class=\"has-carousel has-carousel-med swiper-container\" 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becoming less popular around the world and there are only few institutions providing a quality education in the field. We have heard stories of talented children with good dancing conditions not being able to find a local school with serious approach to dance education and forced to travel out of town and even out of state in order to receive a quality ballet curriculum. We want to change that! That is the reason why our Board of Trustees got together and founded SWFL Ballet!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>          SWFL Ballet was created as a Non-Profit 501(c)(3) organization in order to extend the opportunity of ballet training to everyone who likes ballet, is passionate about ballet and wants to be a part of ballet family! We believe that there are talents out there waiting to be discovered!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>          As being part of the the charity organization our goal is to make it possible for students of all income to be able to receive ballet education our generous donors and sponsors make it possible \u2013 we welcome donations for a good cause and are working to spread the word around the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>          Looking graceful and effortless on stage \u2013 ballet requires a lot of discipline and committeemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>          Please read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swflballet.com\/enrollment\/\">Enrollment <\/a>page with some useful information for new students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>We welcome everyone to come for a free trial and hoping to discover new talents!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-coblocks-dynamic-separator has-background has-vivid-purple-color is-style-line\" style=\"height:50px\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-3d\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swflballet.com\/contact\/\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(255,203,112) 0%,rgb(199,81,192) 40%,rgb(65,88,208) 100%)\">Contact Us<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-3d\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-luminous-dusk-gradient-background has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swflballet.com\/faculty\">Our Faculty<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25 is-style-circular\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-small-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swflballet.com\/home\/\" style=\"border-radius:20px;background:linear-gradient(90deg,rgb(255,203,112) 0%,rgb(199,81,192) 50%,rgb(65,88,208) 100%)\">HOME<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWFL Ballet is a result of a vision of many passionate individuals to create Not-for-Profit ballet school in the greater community of Southwest Florida with a purpose of providing a comprehensive ballet education from Pre-Ballet to a professional level, including post-graduate training and coaching for national and international ballet competitions. 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