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15 year old Makenzie Glasser has now learned new steps from the Rockettes Summer Dance Intensive program.<\/p>\n
Glasser been dancing at Footnotes (Lehigh Acres) since she is was 3 years old.\u00a0 She has been a member of their competition team, the LA Stars since she was 5.\u00a0 This fall she will be a sophomore at Lehigh Senior where she is in the Cambridge program and a Dance major in the Center for the Arts.\u00a0 She attended Veterans Park Academy for the Arts kindergarten through 8th grades and was on their All County Dance team 5th-8th grades.\u00a0 In 9th grade she was on the All County Dance Team for Lehigh Senior and attended the FDPA Dance Assessments and State Honors Concert this past February.
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\nIn January Makenzie traveled to Orlando to audition for the Rockettes Summer Dance Intensive.\u00a0 Auditions were held in 13 cities throughout the country along with 6 in New York City.\u00a0 Her audition had around 65 girls in attendance.\u00a0 The girls were trying to earn spots in one of the 7 week long intensives held in New York City.\u00a0 The largest weeks had spots for 80 girls, but many of the spots were already taken by girls returning from the previous year who did not have to audition again to return.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_0923-300x225.jpg\" "\\"IMG_0923\\"")
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In April she received notification that she had earned a spot in week 6, July 26-31.\u00a0 Weeks 1-5 held their rehearsals at Radio City Music Hall.\u00a0 Weeks 6 & 7 held their rehearsals at St. Paul’s Cathedral where the Rockettes normally rehearse because America’s Got Talent is using Radio City.\u00a0 The girls took a tour of Radio City\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0morning.\u00a0 They then reported at\u00a0noon\u00a0to begin dancing.\u00a0 Through the week they danced from 9-5 or 9-6.\u00a0\u00a0On Friday\u00a0they rehearsed at the NYU Skirball Center for the\u00a0Performing Arts.\u00a0That\u00a0Friday afternoon they performed 3 of the routines from the Rockettes Christmas show at the Skirball Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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