The San Francisco Ballet Center for Dance Education is dedicated to sharing the love of dance with the broadest possible audience. SFB CDE values the dancer in everyone! Over 25,000 people participate in Community Programs annually, from school children, teachers, seniors, and Bay Area families to fellow artists, volunteers and hospitals. The programs provide introduction, enrichment, and opportunity for anyone to explore dance as a powerful and important cultural art form. Charles ’Chip’ McNeal currently works as a lecturer, choreographer, adjudicator, and teacher. He conducts artist/teacher training, evaluating and developing educational programs throughout the U.S. and abroad. Since 1980, Mr. McNeal has been teaching, developing, and implementing community outreach and education programs for San Francisco Ballet. His performing credits include stage work and films, with an extensive background in musical theater. The many dance forms he has studied and performed include Afro-Cuban, jazz, tap, ballet, West African, and several folkloric styles including Israeli, Russian folkdance, and Scottish country dancing. Mr. McNeal works as a freelance dance critic and has produced four documentaries profiling arts programs and important issues in arts education, the latest of which, A Cultural Exchange with South Africa Ballet Theatre, chronicles San Francisco Ballet’s outreach program in Africa.