Destination: Radio City.Hundreds of dance festivals and intensives are offered each year to supplement a dancer's training. Thanks to the American Harlequin Corporation, Bianca Marie Ruffin, a 19-year-old modern dance student who will begin her second year of the BFA BFA abbr. Bachelor of Fine Arts BFA abbr BFA, B.F.A Bachelor of Fine Arts; first degree in Fine Arts. program at the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University, found a way to enjoy two of these opportunities without breaking the bank. She applied for American Harlequin's dance scholarship program, and she received $2,000 of the $25,000 annually divided among 20 dance students ages 15-21. She used part of it to attend the 2006 American College Dance Festival Northeast Regional Conference at Montclair State University History Montclair State was established in 1908 as "Montclair Normal School" in response to a growing need for teachers. It was renamed "Montclair State Teachers College" in 1927, when it developed a program of educating secondary school teachers through a Bachelor of Arts , and has enrolled in a summer intensive at Broadway Dance Center in NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City . After college, Ruffin hopes to dance professionally in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . "Since I'm pretty tall (5'8"), I want to audition as a Radio City Rockette. I think that would be a fun, exciting job to take on." |
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