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Ms. Lea's
Heart of Dance Award
2025
This award recognizes the dancer who best demonstrates the qualities of beloved teacher and dancer Ms. Lea Moran: Kindness, helpfulness, positivity, and community-building.
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2025 Ms Lea's Heart of Dance Award Recipient
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Sophia Acevedo
Previous Award Recipients
2024 Ms Lea's Heart of Dance Award Recipient​
Cooper Barrysmith
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2024 Light of Dance Award Recipient​
Mackenzie Sheehy
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2024 Wonder of Dance Award Recipient​
Natalie Noonan
About The Scholarships
These scholarships celebrate not only strong dancers, but strong people. Each award recognizes a different way dancers show up for their art, their peers, and their community. Select scholarships are established in memory of dancers whose influence continues to inspire future generations.
Ms Lea's
Heart of Dance Award
This award recognizes the dancer who best demonstrates the qualities of beloved teacher and dancer Ms. Lea Moran: Kindness, helpfulness, positivity, and community-building.
Light of Dance Award
This award recognizes the dancer who best demonstrates the passion, discipline, and promise of lighting up the stage for the next generation of dancers.​
Wonder of Dance Award
This award recognizes the dancer who best demonstrates the qualities of curiosity, tenacity, and poise necessary for all dancers to learn in and out of the studio.