Girl Scouts
Girl Scout Badge Program
Dance into Life
The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet is committed to helping provide students with opportunities to experience and learn about ballet. The Dance Into Life: Girl Scout Badge Program is designed to continue with the tradition of “helping today’s girls become tomorrow’s leaders” by providing meaningful educational experiences that contribute to the cultural development of students. It also seeks to develop and educate these students to be part of the ballet audience of the future. The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet seeks to honor the core goals of the Girl Scout Program by:
- encouraging girls to develop to their full potential.
Dance, as well as all other art forms, can become a precious outlet for children; engaging them in creativity, increasing their mathematical and cognitive skills, and stimulating a possible lifelong passion. - showing girls how to relate to others with increasing understanding, skill, and respect.
Other findings in these studies suggest that students who participate in arts programs develop a greater sense of discipline and improved competencies in cognitive, social, and personal skills. - helping girls to develop a meaningful set of values to guide their actions and to provide for sound decision-making.
Researchers have shown that participation in the Arts can increase attention span, improve coordination, reduce tension, and increase critical-thinking skills, thus allowing a child a greater chance of excelling in other academic areas. -
contributing to the improvement of society.
Children who have access to the Arts have been shown to have a much lower dropout rate in school and an increase in self-esteem.
By participating in the Dance Into Life program, students will learn the importance of personal responsibility, the value of goal-setting, the spirit of teamwork, and the thrill of accomplishment by:
- Actively participating in a lecture/demonstration dance class
- Having the opportunity to meet with pre-professional CPYB dance students and teachers and watch a small performance up close!
- Experiencing a live tour of the dance studios and costume area
- Receiving a free ticket to attend a live dance performance at the Whitaker Center or Hershey Theatre
- Receiving further educational resources on dance
- Receiving complimentary refreshments
This program can be tailored for all Girl Scout groups including:
- Daisy Girl Scouts (ages 5-6)
- Brownie Girl Scouts (ages 6-8)
- Junior Girl Scouts (ages 8-11)
- STUDIO 2BSM (ages 11-17)
About the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet
CPYB has been featured in leading newspapers and magazines, on television news, and in the award-winning documentary film presented on National Public Television, Children with a Dream. In August 2001, The New York Times dance critic Joseph Carman said, “London, Paris, St. Petersburg, and New York are well known for their first-rate ballet academies, training many of the best dancers in the classical form. Add to that list Carlisle, PA, a town with fewer than 20,000 people and a modest economy driven by state government jobs and the defense industry… Marcia Dale Weary and her Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet have produced dancers well known in the ballet world.”
The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet is also a registered Arts-in-Education group as approved by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
To book your program
Cost: $10.00 per scout with a 10 scout minimum. Two free Troup leader tickets will be provided. Groups may not exceed 25 people.
Cost includes: All lecture/demonstrations, tours, refreshments, tickets and educational materials
Contact: Jason Reed, Director of Educational Outreach for CPYB at 717-245-1183 or reed@cpyb.org to make a group reservation.
Additional family members may attend the lecture/demonstration but will be charged $3.00 per person and will not receive the free ticket to the Whitaker Center or Hershey Theatre.
