Performing Arts
Through a variety of exciting and engaging classes, HOLA’s Performing Arts Program encourages youth to channel their energy and emotion into new and creative endeavors, building leadership and professional skills, developing their powers of self-expression and decision-making and instilling self-confidence. In addition to a full music program, performing arts classes include hip hop and salsa dancing, improvisation and theater production.
A few years and a Master’s degree from Brown University later, Nara found herself back in Los Angeles where she recently worked on the Siqueiros Mural Center with the Getty and the City of Los Angeles.
Nara, a trained ballet dancer and avid photographer (she studied photography at RISD), feels that art education is a positive catalyst for today’s youth and the communities they live in. She is excited to be sharing her experience and desire to HOLA, helping to give local youth an opportunity to explore themselves and their place in the world through creative expression.
NEWS
Gustavo Dudamel on YOLA at HOLA
“YOLA at HOLA is truly a dream come true. It is an inspiration to see the lives of children being shaped by making music and building community with each other. With this program, the LA Phil and HOLA intend to integrate music into the lives of a new generation with the hope of helping each [...]
LMU Community Dance Project Shares the Joy of Dance with HOLA
For most HOLA students, modern dance is not part of their everyday vocabulary. Thanks to LMU’s touring student company, Community Dance Project (CDP), a group of Bridges Middle School students had the opportunity to dive feet first in to the world of modern dance. HOLA was very fortunate to be one of the CDP’s stops. [...]
LMU Dance Department Visits HOLA!
While arts are being cut from schools around the area, Loyola Marymount University reaches out to students. Loyola Marymount University visited HOLA on Monday, March 22nd for a dance workshop. The LMU Department of Dance and Theatre provided a workshop for our middle school dance students, which included 4 performances by LMU students, a post-performance [...]
Actress, Roselyn Sanchez visits HOLA!
Roselyn Sanchez visited HOLA preparing HOLA youth for auditions for her upcoming pilot reality show, featuring high school students from the Rampart community. The pilot will be called DRAMA, and will focus on students in this community who overcome their struggles and adversity through the arts.
Upcoming Events »
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Fri. Feb 10, 2012 @ 6:00pm - 10:00pm
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Exciting Fundraiser to Benefit HOLA
1 Feb, 2012
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The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Visit YOLA at HOLA
31 Jan, 2012
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HOLA Receives Grant From the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
30 Jan, 2012
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The Lakers are Back in Action and so is Basketball at HOLA
10 Jan, 2012
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Winter Session Off to a Great Start
3 Jan, 2012
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Exciting Fundraiser to Benefit HOLA
1 Feb, 2012
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Walden Pond Press Donates Books to Guys Read Club
1 Feb, 2012
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Heart of Los Angeles ~ Holiday of the Heart
31 Jan, 2012
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The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Visit YOLA at HOLA
31 Jan, 2012
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HOLA Receives Grant From the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
30 Jan, 2012
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Timothy: I saw the Bolivars at HOLA on Monday and both the Bolivars and the kids were inc...

