2022 Program Highlights
In Summer 2022, the St. George Theatre hosted its annual Summer Educational Dance, Theater, and Literacy Outreach Program for 65 students ages 9-18. The theme was “Inspiring Icons in Music and Dance” where students learned about and performed numbers to honor Misty Copeland, Alvin Ailey, Debbie Allen, Amanda Gorman, Beyonce, and Aretha Franklin. The program featured in-person classes in song, dance, theater, and spoken word, and was 100% free to the students made possible by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Council Members Joseph Borelli, David Carr, and Kamillah Hanks, Assemblymembers Michael Cusick and Charles Fall, Borough President Vito J. Fossella, Con Edison, Michael Tuch Foundation, Mrs. Rosemary’s Dance Studio, ShopRite, Staten Island University Hospital / Northwell Health, and our many community partners and individual donors.