01 & 14 (4)Public Comment
From: Alexia Rojas <
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 12:26 AM
To: Public Comment
Cc: info@anaheimbaIlet.org
Subject: SAVE ANAHEIM BALLET
Dear Mayor Sidhu and Council Members,
The arts are an important part of any community, and for more than 20 years, Anaheim Ballet has been a valued
arts force and presence in Anaheim. Anaheim Ballet provides free community-based after-school programming,
workforce and recreational training, bus -in presentations, lecture/demonstrations and concert performances and has
been recognized both locally and internationally as a point of pride to the City.
The Anaheim Cultural Arts Center (the current home of the Anaheim Ballet) is slated to be demolished without plans
for a new Cultural Arts Center or home for the Anaheim Ballet. If the City demolishes this architecturally unique
building, you will be removing the only Cultural Arts Center in the City and displacing the City's treasured arts
organization. It is best for the community, and especially for our underserved youth, that Anaheim Ballet remains in
its current accessible location!
Please vote in support of the Cooperative Agreement with Anaheim Ballet. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Alexia (Lexi) Rojas
Ps. Anaheim ballet/The Anaheim cultural arts center, is beyond a dance studio, it was my safe space,
escape and second home growing up. Without this space my teen years would've not been the
same.
"I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man — the landscape of his soul. I hope that
every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be."
Martha Graham