On Monday, Houston Ballet announced Williams’ $10 million gift to the professional...
A dancer with the Houston Ballet places a rose in front of Margaret Alkek Williams during an event held in her honor at the Houston Ballet on Monday, May 9, 2022. Williams donated $10million to the ballet.The daughter of an oilman, Margaret Alkek Williams’ love for the performing arts began early, with piano lessons at age 4 and her first theatrical role, as Snow White, at age 5.
Executive director Jim Nelson announced Williams’ latest gift to the Houston Ballet board on Monday evening in the Margaret Alkek Williams Dance Lab, a black box theater that hosts special events and public rehearsals; the building it’s housed in will now be known as the Margaret Alkek Williams Center for Dance.
Houston Ballet’s Education and Community Engagement Program reaches more than 60,000 residents annually, many of whom are children. The Margaret Alkek Williams Dance Lab provides a venue for students to have free educational experiences. Portrait of Margaret Alkek Williams in her home on Thursday, April 28, 2022 in Houston. Margaret Alkek Williams will make a major contribution to Houston Ballet.She credits her parents, Margaret and Albert Alkek, the son of Lebanese immigrants who moved to Houston in 1909, with instilling in her the power of giving. In 1948, Alkek joined Harry Sinclair in the Sinclair-Alkek Oil Co., which built and operated the first petroleum products pipeline in Texas.
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