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Mary Hatfield received 14 years of training in ballet, tap, and jazz at January’s Academy of Dance in Charleston, WV, where she also assisted classes in all three disciplines. She has participated in the West Virginia Dance Festival and has taken master classes in a variety of areas. She had roles in
Nutcracker productions by Ballet South and the Chicago Ballet. Mary is a Yeager Scholar at Marshall University.


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Alisha Vare has studied various types of dance for the past 16 years, including ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, and hip-hop. She has competed on the national level for over four years with La Dance Magic, La Dance Force, and Access Broadway and has placed in choreography, duet, trio, and company numbers. She is a psychology major at Marshall University.

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Since age three, Paige Carlton has been studying and performing dance and currently takes classical ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, hip-hop, and lyrical. She began competitive dance in New York at age five where she competed in regional competitions with American Stardom, Eastern Performing Arts Winner Showcase, Showbiz, and Dance USA. In 2002 she earned a gold medal in the American Academy of Ballet performance awards. Since her arrival in Huntington, Paige has performed in Charleston Ballet productions of The Nutcracker. She is also an active member of the theater community; she played Alice in Alice in Wonderland and also had roles in Huntington Outdoor Theater's Annie Get Your Gun and 5th Avenue Theater's Annie, Gypsy, and It's a Wonderful Life. She continues to study with HDG and is in the apprentice program with the Charleston Ballet.
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Hilary Cornell began dancing at age six and has studied classical ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, and modern. She has trained at studios in the Huntington and Charleston area and has attended the Mid Ohio Valley Ballet's Summer Intensive for several years. She has performed in Nutcracker productions in Huntington including a performance as Clara in 2002. She is a company member with the Charleston Ballet where she has performed in productions of The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, African Images, and The Flappers.
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Angela Pino has studied dance for eight years, including ballet, tap, jazz, and hip-hop. She also studies voice and is active in the Huntington theater community, having had roles in Annie, Annie Get Your Gun, and Les Miserables.