The Trifecta Arts Ballet Program performance by the students of President Tamayo School was a beautiful event highlighted by the lovely dancers. The younger dancers (grades 2-4) were radiant in bright pink custom-made tutus and danced to music from the ballet “Coppelia.” The older dancers (grades 5-6) wore elegant blue custom-made tutus for their choreography set […]
After months of dancing in socks or barefooted, the dancers at the Olon Orphanage feel pretty special in their new ballet shoes! It was an entirely different ballet class this week with all of the dancers in professional quality leather ballet shoes for the first time! The feet were more pointed and the releve’s were higher…I […]
Trifecta Arts received a windfall from Summit Dance Shoppe and now we need help transitioning this gift into the hands (or should I say feet?) of underprivileged girls in Ecuador. Over 300 pairs of ballet slippers were logged into our inventory by Patty Vannucci and her daughter, Erica. Their quick work was essential, because a […]
Perched atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, like a scene from a movie, sits the Santa Maria Orphanage. Young minds, bodies and souls are welcomed here when they have no other place to go. Once they arrive, they generally stay until their 18th birthday. Very few are adopted due to restrictive laws and unwillingness […]
In a school that just lost it’s music teacher, Trifecta Arts is beginning a new program to teach interested students the fundamentals of music. Francisco Huerta Rendon School in Salinas, Ecuador had a music program that consisted of glockenspiels and snare drums. It was limited to the older students and had to be discontinued when […]
Melodía del Mar is a shining example of the power of community-driven initiatives and the transformative effect that music can have on people’s lives. Since its inception in 2014, the music school in Olón, Ecuador has continued to grow thanks to the dedication of its volunteers and the support of Musicians Without Borders, a German-based […]
It’s a TRIFECTA for Trifecta Arts in Ecuador! That’s right – THREE arts programs underway at the same time covering all THREE of our target educational genres … Ballet, Art and now Music. It gives me goosebumps, an adrenaline burst and tears of joy to realize that this has happened in less than THREE months […]
It’s really hard to describe how excited and delighted I am to announce Trifecta Arts’ first ballet program. I dreamed of it, searched for it, and now we are on the threshold. Beginning in September 2017 and culminating with a final performance in early 2018, 50 young girls will experience their first ever ballet training. […]
The Salinas Family Art Center is a project conceived by Barbara Moser of Montreal, Canada and John Bricino Castillo, originally of Bogota, Colombia, and now a Salinas, Ecuador resident. The two began teaching Visual Art and Performance Art in early 2017 at Puerto Net school, where they were given a classroom and access to the […]
Trifecta Arts is proud to partner with the Francisco Huerta Rendon School in Salinas, Ecuador. This public school, located on the southwestern coast of Ecuador, has over 600 students in grades 1-10. We are fortunate to have the full support of the school’s Director, Sonia Monserrate, to offer free art classes before and after school. […]
