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School of Dance takes one final bow for its 2023 season

Photos by HG Biggs

  • Chautauqua School of Dance festival students prepare to perform in their final gala on Aug. 13, 2023, backstage in the Amphitheater.
  • Phoebe Gray prepares to perform in the Chautauqua School of Dance’s final gala on Aug. 13, 2023, backstage in the Amphitheater.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance festival program students perform an excerpt from La Sylphide.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance pre professional program students perform MORE, choreographed by Kara Wilkes.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance pre professional program students Natalia Burns and Jacob Soltero perform in String Samba, choreographed by Abigail Gross.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance pre professional program students Natalia Burns, Jacob Soltero and Emma Cilke perform in Donizetti Variations, choreographed by George Balanchine and staged by Patricia McBride.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance pre professional program students perform MORE, choreographed by Kara Wilkes.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance pre professional program students perform MORE, choreographed by Kara Wilkes.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance pre professional program students perform in Excerpts from Union Jack.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance pre professional program students Maddie Tyler and Sarah Hurty perform in Donizetti Variations, choreographed by George Balanchine and staged by Patricia McBride.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance pre professional program students Olivia Cornelius and Aram Hengen perform Grand Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance festival program students perform Polonaise and Mazurka from Paquita, choreographed by Joseph Jefferies.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance festival program students perform Thoroughly Modern Millie, originally choreographed by Rob Ashford and adapted by Michael Deeb.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance pre professional program students Natalia Burns and Aram Hengen perform Tarantella, choreographed by George Balanchine.
  • Chautauqua School of Dance festival students say goodbye following their final gala.
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The author HG Biggs

HG Biggs is a rising senior at the University of Mississippi where she studies Mandarin Chinese. HG credits baseball with sparking the start of her photographer career. Her first experiences holding a camera were taking photos through chain link fences at her brothers’ little league t-ball games. HG has just finished three years working for the University of Mississippi’s student-run newspaper, The Daily Mississippian; two and a half of those years she spent as photo editor. During her first summer in Chautauqua, HG will be working as a photographer for The Chautauquan Daily, and she is excited to photograph everything outside of the sports fields where she spends much of her time at home.