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Linze Rickles McRae
Director of Dance Studies

Linze Rickles McRae is the Director of Dance Studies for the Gadsden Community School for the Arts. The Downtown Dance Conservatory, located within the Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, is dedicated to preserving the art form of dance, spreading awareness of dance education throughout the community, and has a registry of nearly two hundred students. The program is founded in classical and contemporary dance. The Downtown Dance Conservatory will be a place of endless creativity, imagination, and expression through dance.

Linze is a member of the National Dance Educator’s Organization, the Alabama Dance Council, and American Fitness Association. She has been acknowledged and awarded by the National Federation of Music in Dance, The Professional Dance Teacher’s Association, and was most recently head choreographer for Jacksonville State University’s musical production of “West Side Story”. Linze has performed and taught on stages throughout the country and has trained in dance from the east to the west coast.

The Downtown Dance Conservatory is now a division of the Gadsden Community School for the Arts and will still offer advanced training for experienced dancers. Classical Ballet studies begin with age six and continue up to Level IV Pointe classes.