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Dancers preparing for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Twenty student dancers from Drouin Dance Center have been selected to perform in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City to be broadcast Thanksgiving Day on NBC.
The group has begun rehearsals for the choreography they will perform at Herald Square in front of millions of people, and will continue to rehearse and prepare until they leave for NYC on Nov. 20.
In addition to learning the choreography, the dancers are preparing for a whirlwind week of rehearsals to prepare for the parade. With their fellow performers, they will also attend the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and take in a Broadway show.
The dancers are the only participants from Maine, and with one other dance school from Massachusetts, are among the only performers from New England. This is the fourth time Drouin Dance Center has been selected to dance in the parade. They previously performed in the 2011, 2014, 2017. The team was scheduled to participate in the 2020 parade, which was modified due to the pandemic.
“We are very honored to have been selected for a fourth time for this event, known all over the world,” says Danielle Drouin, owner and director. “The hard work of all of these dancers earned us another invitation, which we are very excited about. It’s been a long wait since we started planning in late fall of 2019!”
The team of dancers heading to NYC are: Ellie Backman, Madison Boucher, Mackinna Campbell, Emilia...
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