The Ballet Mexico Lindo was funded in 2009 by Mrs. Gabriela Jessome and fully registered as a Non-Profit Organization in August 2011.
The Music and Dance Program aims to empower, inspire, and unite children, youth and adults in the community through education, arts and culture. We believe that a community that can learn about other cultures, in this case Latin American Culture, can lift children, youth and even adults up to better improve their self-esteem using arts and culture as tools to be connected, to understand and respect multiculturalism, develop valuable life connections as well as experience the arts in a fun way. Presentations from the Music and Dance programs are promoted to Senior Homes and Cultural Events throughout the city.
We provide dance classes to children and adults, from May to September every Tuesday and from October to April every Friday from 5:45 to 9:30 pm, at St. Luke’s Anglican Church.
We have 3 dance groups from the Ballet Mexico Lindo of Alberta, Preschooler Group, Children group and Youth and Adults group, some of the performances we have done include mainly to the Greater Edmonton Senior Foundation facilities, in what we call ‘’bringing a gift of love’’, some of the facilities are Kiwanis, McQueen Place, Beverly place, as well as other retirement homes in the city such as South Terrace Long Term Facility, Rutherford Senior Housing, Millwoods Good Shepherd and Shepherd's Care Kensington Campus.
We also participate in Latin Festival throughout the Province of Alberta and we have participated in a presentation in Ottawa, Ontario.
To Get In Touch Today
Call Gabriela: 01-587-990-3190
Or Email: LatinoCanadianFusion@gmail.com
MEET OUR DIRECTOR
MEET OUR DIRECTOR
Gabriela Jessome graduated as an Artistic Teacher at the early age of 12. She continued her Dance Education in Ballet, Folklore, Polynesian dances, Jazz and Modern Dance graduating in 1983 as an International Folklore Dance teacher. She opened the Dance Studio D’Gabrielle in 1983 and closed it in 1986, when she obtained a scholarship to do her Masters in International Marketing at UCLA, Los Angeles, California. While in Los Angeles, Ca, she was involved in different teaching programs as a volunteer in the evenings while working for the Mexican Chamber of Commerce, opening the American market and distribution channels for the Mexican Stone Industry, creating and solidifying the exporting of Marble, Limestone, Granite, and Soapstone from the states of Yucatan, Durango, Zacatecas, and Sinaloa. From September 1994 to June 2003 she worked as a Spanish and English Teacher at the Instituto Moderno Americano School in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, simultaneously teaching folklore dance classes to children from low income families and continuing as a consultant for the Mexican Chamber of commerce and the stone industry. In August 2003 she moves to Canada to open the Canadian Market for the Mexican Stone industry opening Natural Stone Imports.
In 2004, Mrs. Jessome was invited to be in charge of the Dance Workshop at the Gabriela Mistral Latin American School, in which she was actively involved until December 9, 2017. She also has extensive experience in Latin American Culture and is involved in the community promoting culture through dance and arts. She has also taken several teaching and training workshops in Spanish Literature, as well as ESL.
She strongly believes that even though she had been working in the Stone and Construction Industry for the last 25 years, what brings balance and true meaning to her life is education, not only through dancing but through teaching.
Currently, Mrs. Jessome is the LINC Program Manager at ASSIST Community Services, President of ATESL and dance Director, Choreographer and Teacher of the Ballet Mexico Lindo of Alberta.