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- EIN 77-0396681
- PO Box 2321 Alameda CA 94501 USA
- http://www.peersdance.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Historical Organizations, Performing Arts
Mission: P.E.E.R.S. was founded to produce and sponsor re-creations of historical works and to sponsor original works in historical forms of dance, music and theater with an emphasis on audience interaction; to sponsor and support artists and researchers involved in the performing arts of the past; to provide instruction to the general public in the performing arts of the past and to increase knowledge and appreciation of these arts by educating the general public in their historic context; and to conduct research into the performing arts of the past, and their role in history and literature.
Programs: The main activities of PEERS have traditionally centered around our historical and literary re-creation events. These have covered a wide number of historical periods and have included such diverse events as a recreation of Lord Capulet's Ball from Romeo and Juliet, an 18th-Century Scarlet Pimpernel Ball, a Mostly Mozart Ball set in the Amadeus universe, a Jane Austen Fete and Assembly, a Phantom of the Opera Masquerade Ball, a Sherlock Holmes Mystery Party and Ball, an Edwardian Music Hall, a Tango Tea, a 1920's Speakeasy, a 1930's Mystery Party, a 1941 Evening in Casablanca, a Halloween Vampires' Ball, and many Victorian Balls.