LaPrincess Ballet Prep Academy, LLC
The Program
The LaPrincess Ballet Prep Academy is an outreach and after school arts program launched in the fall of 2011 as an effort to keep the arts alive in public schools. The program was successfully implemented in 5 metro-Atlanta public & charter schools and 2 Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta.
The LaPrincess Ballet Prep Academy offers the fundamentals of dance education for beginning dancers in K-5th grade schools including: ballet, jazz, lyrical & African dance technique & dance terminology with the goal of providing young dancers a foundation in dance. This program is focused more on recreational dancing, exposing students to the art of dance while building self esteem and social skills.
THE FOUNDER
In the summer of 2011, Miss La'Toya Princess Jackson started the Ballet Prep After School Program as an outreach branch of
LNJ Entertainment's Performing Arts Division. She expanded the program to the LaPrincess Ballet Prep Academy in the fall of 2012. The program is now the philanthropic arm of LaPrincess Entertainment Group, LLC.
LaToya Princess Jackson, originally from Fort Worth, Texas started dancing at the age of 13 as a member of the award winning "Silver Foxes" a high school dance team in her hometown. She started her classical ballet training at Atlanta Ballet's Centre for Dance Education and she continued her training at Ballethnic Academy of Dance where she currently trains in ballet, jazz, modern and African.
She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Media Arts with a concentration in Radio/TV/Film from Clark Atlanta University and a Masters degree from Harvard University in Dramatic Arts with a focus on music, dance and performance. With a background in classical ballet, she taught creative movement and artistic expression in inner city schools as an undergraduate and she also took dance classes at Spelman College during her collegiate experience. She faithfully attends Ballethnic Academy of Dance's Summer Intensive and the Kat Wildish Summer Repertory Workshop offered at the Alvin Ailey Studios.
Miss LaToya has performed in various ballet productions including Ballethnic Dance Company's Jazzy Sleeping Beauty, Urban Nutcracker & The Leopard Tale and was a company member in the Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company and the Harvard Dance Project. She has also worked for the Boston Ballet as teaching faculty in the Boston Ballet School.