Our Mission:
To be worthy
ambassadors for our sport and to use our influence
to
inspire, encourage, and enable the dreams of others.
To be in a state of constant learning and improvement through perseverance, commitment, and an open mind.
To invest our time and efforts in nurturing the potential of others.
To create powerful, meaningful, and innovative moving artwork and to share it with as many people as possible.
To be ever mindful and grateful for all of our talents and capabilities, never taking them for granted.
To follow our hearts, live our dreams, and encourage others to do the same.
To act with integrity and treat our bodies, our planet, and all living beings with unconditional respect and kindness.
To remember the contagious power of enthusiasm, optimism, and a generosity of spirit
To cultivate a unique dance style that pushes boundaries while honoring tradition.
CAUSES In Alphabetical Order
Amnesty International Visit Website
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. They are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion.
Angelman Syndrome Foundation Visit Website
The Angelman Syndrome Foundation’s mission is to advance the awareness and treatment of Angelman Syndrome through education and information, research, support and advocacy for individuals with Angelman Syndrome, their families, and other concerned parties.
Awesome Women Hub Visit Website
The Awesome Women Hub was created as a place for women’s voices so that women from all over the world can share about themselves and their work, promote other awesome women they want the world to know about, and make business and personal connections.
Child Fund International Visit Website
Child Fund International is inspired and driven by the potential that is inherent in all children; the potential not only to survive but to thrive, to become leaders who bring positive change for those around them. They work in 31 countries, assisting more than 15.2 million children and families regardless of race, creed or gender.
Coalition for The Homeless Visit Website
For more than 25 years, the Coalition for the Homeless has developed and implemented humane, cost-effective strategies to end mass homelessness in New York City. Through housing, job training, emergency food, crisis intervention, and youth programs, they rescue men, women and children caught in the grips of poverty and offer hope and opportunity for economic independence and a brighter future.
Dance Crazy Visit Website
Dance Crazy promotes the enrichment of children through the sport of ballroom dance. Their goal is to bring the sport of ballroom dancing into schools and provide the youth of community with a resource that will increase physical activity, self-esteem and confidence.
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Intl Visit Website
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International is dedicated to the conservation and protection of gorillas and their habitats in Africa. They are committed to promoting continued research on the gorillas and their threatened ecosystems and to providing education about their relevance to the world in which we live.
The Elephant Sanctuary Visit Website
The Elephant Sanctuary is the nation's largest natural-habitat refuge developed specifically to meet the needs of endangered African and Asian elephants. It is a non-profit organization that promotes education and offers a sanctuary where sick, old and needy elephants can once again walk the earth in peace and dignity.
The Flawless Foundation Visit Website
The Flawless Foundation creates and supports programs that accomplish their mission of seeing, discovering and nurturing the perfection in every child. They are creative, hands-on and proactive in their vision to enrich the lives of children who courageously face challenges of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders on a daily basis.
Friends of the Animals Visit Website
Friends of Animals is a non-profit, international animal advocacy organization, that works to cultivate a respectful view of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic. Their goal is to free animals from cruelty and institutionalized exploitation around the world.
The Gentle Barn Visit Website
The Gentle Barn is a home to animals that are rescued from severe abuse, neglect or slaughter. Once the animals are rehabilitated they stay at the barn and serve as ambassadors helping to heal abused children. Through the interactions with the animals and their stories, kids learn kindness, compassion, confidence and reverence for all life.
Greenpeace Visit Website
Greenpeace is the largest independent direct-action environmental organization in the world. Their goal is to ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity. They take action to protect our oceans and forests, eliminate the use of harmful chemicals and transition to a world powered by clean and unlimited energy sources.
International Justice Mission Visit Website
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems.
Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue Visit Website
Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving wild and domestic horses from abuse, neglect and slaughter. They achieve this though rescue, refuge, training and adoption placement programs as well through educational programs and clinics.
PETA Visit Website
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is the largest animal rights organization in the world. PETA focuses its attention on animal exploitation in factory farms, the clothing trade, laboratories, and the entertainment industry through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, and protest campaigns.
Pets Alive Visit Website
Pets Alive is a no-kill animal shelter. Their mission is to improve the lives of companion animals everywhere by any means possible, including rescue, adoption, advocacy, collaboration, intervention and education. Many of the animals at Pets Alive are older, have special needs or require special care.
Return to Freedom Visit Website
Return To Freedom is dedicated to preserving the freedom, diversity and habitat of America's wild horses through sanctuary, education and conservation initiatives. They also aim to enrich the human spirit through direct experience with the natural world.
Sanctuary for Families Visit Website
Sanctuary for Families serves domestic violence victims, sex trafficking victims, and their children. They achieve this though a range of comprehensive services, including crisis intervention, emergency and transitional shelter, legal assistance and representation, adult and child counseling, and long-term follow-up care.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Visit Website
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. Their mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. They use direct-action tactics to investigate, document, expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas.
Snow Leopard Trust Visit Website
The Snow Leopard Trust is the world's leading authority on the study and protection of the endangered snow leopard. Their approach is based on co-operative work to change government policies, partnering with communities to build community based conservation programs, enforcing anti-poaching laws and supporting research efforts.
Special Olympics Visit Website
The Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competitions for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them the opportunity to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other athletes, and the community.
Sobriety High Schools Visit Website
Sobriety High Charter School provides adolescents recovering from alcohol and drug dependency a comprehensive, four-year high school diploma program in a safe, sober, supportive and chemical-free environment.
St. Jude's Children Hospital Visit Website
St. Jude’s mission is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. It is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance. No child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.
World Wildlife Fund Visit Website
The World Wildlife Fund is the world’s leading conservation organization. They combine their unmatched global reach with a foundation in science; this involves action at every level (from local to global) and ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.
