A dance scholarship has been established in honor of Birmingham native and longtime Fairhope resident Gage Bush Englund.
The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Summer Intensive program has contributed $20,000 to establish the Gage Bush Englund Endowed Scholarship. ABT endowed the scholarship at The University of Alabama to honor Englund’s role in establishing this renowned summer dance program. Priority will be given to full-time undergraduate students majoring in dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance.
Englund is well-known for her generous, lifelong support of dance and dance education. She was instrumental in bringing the ABT to UA for its successful Summer Intensive residential dance workshops, which attract some 200 students annually from across the nation. She is ballet mistress at the ABT in New York.
