Orange Mound adding to New Ballet’s dance pipeline
New Ballet Ensemble and School dancer instructor LeAnthony Douglas (middle) helps students at Dunbar Elementary School stretch before their hip-hop dance class Monday, Sept. 9. Douglas was in New Ballet’s first cohort at Dunbar Elementary as a third-grader and has been in his current role at New Ballet since graduating from Melrose High School in 2017. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
LeAnthony Douglas, a teaching and performing artist at New Ballet Ensemble and School, started in the organization’s first cohort of Dunbar Elementary School students.
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A native Memphian, Elle Perry has earned graduate degrees from the University of Memphis and Maryland Institute College of Art. She’s written for publications including the Memphis Business Journal, Memphis Flyer and High Ground News, and previously served as coordinator of The Teen Appeal.
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