Passion for music and dancing runs deep and blossoms early in Southeast Louisiana, and the team members of Young Audiences of Louisiana’s afterschool dance program at Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts are no exceptions. Participating girls in grades first through eighth refer to themselves as the “LDT” when they high-step in Mardi Gras parades, but their Carnival swagger is founded in an intensive, multi-year program of cultural, artistic, academic, and personal exploration.

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