Each
spring, Brandywine Ballet mails invitations to over 225 area schools
announcing the upcoming season's Student/Senior/Family Matinees. The
Student/Family matinees serve as field trips for over 1500 students from
as many as 20 different Greater Philadelphia area schools each year, as
well as numerous home school families. Admission to these season
production-series regularly ranges from $20-$35. However, Brandywine
Ballet reduces matinee tickets to $8-$10 for children and seniors, and
$15-$18 for adults, in order to make the arts more accessible to
children, seniors and families. In addition to lowered ticket prices,
Brandywine Ballet provides attending students with a performance program
the day of the event, and curriculum packets in advance of the event,
which include programmatic details, general ballet technique and
history, and educational games. During intermission, ballet dancers and
performers come out into the audience for meet and greet, and a Q & A
session. All Student/Family Matinees take place at the Emilie K.
Asplundh Concert Hall on the campus of West Chester University. The
collegiate environment in which Brandywine Ballet's performances take
place reinforce the educational impact of the program, shining a
positive light on institutions of higher education for students at an
important and impressionable age.