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On August 20th, 1999 Sarah Cozort auditioned for the Black Hills Arts Council's upcoming production of 'The Nutcracker'. Sarah was chosen to be one of twelve snowflakes, and will be dancing the part of the Angel of the Sweets.
Before the auditions, Sarah attended a ballet-intensive- workshop at the Academy of Dance in Rapid City, SD, for eight days to prepare for the auditions. Charles Maple, the choreographer for The Nutcracker, and director of the Pasadena Dance Theatre in California, chose the dancers for the specific parts. Mr. Maple received a Ford Foundation scholarship for the School of American Ballet in New York, in his teens. At nineteen he joined American Ballet Theatre in New York, and later was a principal dancer with the Basel Ballet of Switzerland.
From January 1997 to May of 1999, Sarah was a dance student of Mrs. Amelia Pelton in Milledgeville, GA. Mrs. Pelton is an instrutor at Georgia College and State University. She also instructs a very successful Continuing Education dance program in the cummunity. Sarah is very grateful for the kind, patient and caring dance instruction she received from Amelia.
Sarah will be 15 years old in November. She has always been homeschooled. Sarah will be continuing her classical dance lessons at Black Hills Dance Theatre, under the direction of Celeste Parker, in Spearfish, SD. Sarah is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Larry Cozort, formerly of Milledgeville, GA. The family currently resides in Spearfish, SD. Dr. Cozort is a professor at Black Hills State University. The Cozorts say "we dearly miss our homeschool friends in Georgia."
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