Ovations Fall 2024 - Flipbook - Page 21
BROADWAY REACH
A Decade of Introducing
Broadway to Students
Broadway Reach program for students enrolled in local
underserved schools wraps up for 2024.
The Kravis Center celebrated the close of the 10th season of
its Broadway Reach arts education program with student
performances and artwork this spring.
Tracy C. Butler, Director of Education at the Kravis Center.
“We are thrilled to be able to celebrate and share musical
theater and the arts through the hundreds of education
programs that we offer year-round that serve thousands of
students of all ages.”
This year, students presented a combined
choral piece, a dance, a spoken word and
dance fusion performance, and created
visual art based on the musical displayed
in the Kravis Center’s Loge Right Gallery.
The program focused on dance, visual art,
and voice through the lens of ambition and
mortality, the two main themes present in
the HAMILTON musical.
Made possible by a grant from the Max
M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation
Arts & Culture Fund of the Community
Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin
Counties, the students’ performances
and art exhibition for 2024 focused
on the Kravis Center’s recent Kravis
on Broadway production, HAMILTON.
The grant allowed the Kravis Center to
provide Broadway Reach sequential
arts education instruction and exposure
to over 130 underserved students from
Palm Beach County public schools.
“Broadway Reach was designed to offer
students from under-resourced schools
the opportunity to engage in an arts
education program at no cost,” said
Jana Milan Mestre, 10th Grade, Lake Worth
Community High School
For 10 weeks, students participated in
workshops leading up to the musical that
they then saw live at the Kravis Center. After
the performance, the students participated
in a post-show talk with members of
the company including Music Director
and Conductor Manny Schvartzman and
Drummer Quinton “Q” Robinson.
Palm Springs Middle School and Spanish River CommunityHigh School
OVATIONS FALL 2024 22
