Gordon Whitfield Scholarship

Gordon Whitfield Scholarship

The Gordon Whitfield Scholarship is a program design especially for the young males in today’s society. Its base comes from The Danseur Development Project, created by Waverly T. Lucas the co-founder of Ballethnic Dance Company in Atlanta , GA. The program mentors young males by providing intensive, athletic training utilizing professional dance technique to enhance life skills such as accountability, responsibility, discipline and team work. A year commitment is require for all accepted into this program. Once accepted into the program, Work/Study students are assigned a work schedule in various positions in the studio or on the cleaning staff in exchange for classes.

Please note:

There are 5 (Five) young males awarded the Gordon Whitfield Scholarship.

“It kept me off the streets and it gives me a foundation for life. Now I’m working on other guys to come here too. It could make such a difference in their lives, as it did mine.”

- Willie Anderson, 20

“It was very clear to me. If I didn't have dance I would have most likely ended up in prison or dead!”

-Waverly T. Lucas, II (Co-Founder of Ballethnic Dance Company)

Making The Pointe Ballet Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin in administration of its education policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs or any other school-administered programs. Making The Pointe Ballet Academy admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School.

*Banner: Students from Making The Pointe's Master Class and Chava and Evi Anderson, Pre-Primary Ballet Class.

Photo Credit: Willie Anderson Dancers: Maria Jacobs and Ramon Moreno

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