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Chelsea Aguiar

Chelsea Aguiar

Chelsea Aguiar is the first to say she was a born performer. “My family has video of me belting out Whitney Houston songs when I was three years old,” she said with a laugh. By age five she was taking dance lessons. She attended her first NDI New Mexico performance by...
Jerry Moyle

Jerry Moyle

When third-grader Jerry Moyle showed up one day at his Albuquerque elementary school gymnasium, he was expecting a game of dodgeball. Instead, Moyle encountered an enthusiastic NDI New Mexico dance instructor and a musician seated at a piano. “I thought, ‘Wow, this is...
Elisha Wray

Elisha Wray

Keepin’ it in the Family! Santa Fe resident Elisha Wray has a notable position within the NDI New Mexico family: In the early 1990s she was one of the very first NDI New Mexico participants, dancing with co-founder Catherine Oppenheimer as a third grader at...
Patrick Martinez

Patrick Martinez

2021Patrick Martinez, 37, began his NDI New Mexico experience like so many other children: participating as an elementary school student in the in-school program. “I enjoyed it from the very beginning,” Martinez said. “Even as a little kid I loved dancing. I saw it as...
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