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Published on 09/29/1997 All articles from this issue

LAHS students among elite dance class at New York's Kennedy Center

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Town Crier Staff Report

Los Altos High School students Emily Hagenmaier and Erin McNulty studied dance at New York's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in August.

The two dancers were among the 31 students chosen from throughout the nation to participate in the three-week ballet training program, an intensive course for dancers ages 14- to-18 years with at least five years of ballet training.

This is just the latest achievement for the two ballerinas. Hagenmaier was accepted on a full scholarship to the San Francisco Ballet School (affiliated with the San Francisco Ballet School) in 1993, and McNulty earned a scholarship to the school in 1994.

"These girls are special. They have the talent and the physical capabilities of being professional dancers," said Marion Chaeft, the dancers' former instructor at the Pacific Ballet Academy in Mountain View.

While at Kennedy Center, the students studied with Suzanne Farrell, a former leading New York City Ballet dancer who won an Emmy for her performance in "Eight by Adler."

The Kennedy Center enlarged its dance program to a national level in 1995 in order to enhance art education to a greater number of youth.