On Wednesday, the LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce celebrated the opening of Downtown Dance Company, a new dance studio in Downtown LaGrange. The new dance studio is owned by Brianna Drake, who has turned her lifelong passion for dance into a career. “This is really a dream come true,” Drake said. “I started dancing at the age of two, and growing up, it was just something that I never walked away from. In my 20 years of dancing, I took one year off, but it was really only a semester because I missed it so much.” Drake said that dance has always been a part of her life and always a positive part of it. “Dance has always been the constant for me. When I'm having the worst day ever, I know I have dance, and I'm going to have the best day ever with all my friends and my mentors, and then my mom's going to pick me up, and it's going to be even better,” Drake said, recalling dance classes growing up. Drake worked under Angela Anderson for almost 10 years at Tumbletown II in LaGrange. “She has been an incredible mentor for me,” Drake said. Drake recalled Anderson having a medical emergency at a dance competition in Athens, Georgia, and leaving her in charge. Drake is a senior at Troy University and has known she wanted to do something with dance, but the idea of owning her own dance studio wasn't there yet. “After that dance competition [Anderson] called me and said, ‘You're ready.’ I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ She said, ‘It's time … you need to hit the ground running…
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