Join us for the 15th Anniversary Crystal Soiree on Sunday, December 6, 2026, at Frenchman's Reserve Country Club. Celebrating 15 years of Artistic Excellence, Inspiring Lives, and Community Impact. Guest of Honor Emmy-Winner Steven Caras, former New York City Ballet Dancer, renowned photographer, speaker, author, and advocate for the arts and education. Live dance performances, dinner, silent and live auctions.

Proceeds support scholarships, dance education, performance opportunities, and community outreach.

Dance Theater of Florida was founded by Michele Zehner and Maria Konrad in 2012 to address numerous educational needs in the local community of Palm Beach Gardens and in the broader community of South Florida. The Company provides local dance students the opportunity to further their artistic development and training through performing classical and contemporary repertoire in a proscenium theater equipped with professional lighting, sound, and crew.

Dance Theater presents two mainstage productions each season and offers additional performance opportunities for community outreach. While these performance experiences are an invaluable part of pre-professional dance training, they are also of great benefit to dancers with other academic and professional goals. The process of learning dance choreography (and refining it in rehearsal) builds confidence by teaching students about teamwork, group dynamics, creative problem solving, self-awareness, and resilience.

The third prong of Dance Theater’s mission addresses the inequitable access to performing arts training and productions among the citizens of South Florida. Access to dance training and performance opportunities at a private studio has become, to some degree, a function of personal family means. To mitigate this, Dance Theater was founded as a non-profit organization so that charitable funds could be raised to support student scholarships and community outreach efforts.