Following a string of acceptances to prestigious dance colleges, Coral Shores graduating senior Brookelyn Zlockie not too long ago dedicated to Tempo College’s famend bachelor of high quality arts in industrial dance program, offering her with a transparent path towards furthering her expertise within the dance world.
A graduating scholar of Tavernier’s On Your Toes dance studio, the acceptance to Tempo’s program, which takes in about 1% to 2% of auditioning dancers, is one other of Zlockie’s many current accomplishments, which embrace profitable NRG Dance Mission’s Senior Nationwide Prodigy in 2024.
Zlockie started her dance journey at 2 years previous when she enrolled at On Your Toes, then owned by her mom, Stephanie Zlockie, and grandmother, Nancy Dunn. Receiving her first title, Florida Dance Grasp’s Mini Miss Dance, at 7 years previous, Zlockie exhibited distinctive progress as a dancer and, later, as a starting choreographer.
“I’ve seen large progress in her dance potential through the years, however I might say what has shocked me (most) is the expansion in her stage of confidence,” stated Stephanie as she mirrored on her daughter’s journey. “It’s straightforward to be intimidated when you find yourself from a small studio in a small city, so to see her stroll right into a room realizing she will deal with something thrown at her can be a nice accomplishment and positively contributed to her success in all of those school auditions.”
Having been accepted into extremely selective applications, together with the Boston Conservatory at Berklee Faculty of Music and Florida State College’s College of Dance, Zlockie finally determined upon Tempo.
Situated in New York Metropolis, Tempo provides an industry-oriented industrial dance program, providing courses in a range of kinds from hip-hop to jazz funk, in an space ripe with alternative.
“After I auditioned at Tempo, I might inform that all the dancers inside the program had been so supportive of one another and had been all as enthusiastic about dance as I’ve all the time been, and I knew that it was the sort of setting that I needed to be in as I took my subsequent steps as a dancer,” Brookelyn stated.
It was the supportive setting of On Your Toes that finally enabled Brookelyn to flourish as a dancer, main each her and one of many studio’s earlier graduates, Jake Craig, to pursue their dance research at Tempo.
“I’ll all the time worth the coaching that I acquired,” Brookelyn stated. “By no means as soon as did I really feel like as a result of I used to be coming from a smaller city I used to be at a drawback, which I believe speaks volumes for the studio. … I really feel like I’m very nicely rounded as a dancer, an element that helped me tremendously in being accepted to Tempo, which I might by no means have the ability to say with out being pushed in each type at On Your Toes, and I’ll all the time be pleased about that.”