Bring Up The Lights

The Georgia Ballet is excited to announced the launch of our "Bring Up The Lights" fundraising campaign. Beginning March 1st, we will be raising funds to complete much needed lighting upgrades in our studios.

The Georgia Ballet moved into our current facility in 2005. Here, we house five dance studios that are utilized by our Professional Company, The School of The Georgia Ballet, our community outreach programming, administrative offices, and costume storage.

The lighting within our five studios is original to the building and is very dated technology. The fixtures are overpowered, require frequent, and expensive, maintenance, yet deliver poor, below average, lighting - while being our single most expensive facility expense. The unbalanced lighting can cause issue for company members, students, and faculty that use the studios such as disorientation and nausea.

We have done our best to perform required maintenance as needed but have reached a point where this strategy is no longer an option as so many of our fixtures have now failed and the maintenance and utility costs are unrealistic. This project is a top priority to use because the lighting failures impact all dancers and faculty members that utilize the studios. It is no longer logical to purchase or maintain old technology when we can upgrade to LED lighting. 

Upgrading to LED lighting fixtures will be much more cost efficient to maintain, will produce more reliable and balance lighting, and will be much more energy efficient. We have already began the upgrades in a few of our studios and believe that we can complete each studio for a total cost of $5,000. Our goal is to raise this amount within the next two weeks so we are able to quickly complete these much-needed upgrades.

Please consider chipping in and supporting The Georgia Ballet's "Bring Up The Lights" campaign by making a donation or sharing with your friends. Your support is greatly appreciated!