Blake Dance Studios students LA-bound

AMHERST – Four students from Kathy Blake Dance Studios are heading to Hollywood – and eventually the world – as students of the Young Americans College of the Performing Arts. After an extensive audition in New Hampshire in October, Isaiah Silvia-Chandley, 18, of Souhegan High School in Amherst; Andrea Sarasin, 18, of Nashua High School South; and Margaret Schofield, 18, and Rebecca Vasques, 18, both of Milford High School, were accepted to the Greater Los Angeles-based nonprofit school beginning in the fall. The Young Americans, founded in 1962 by Milton C. Anderson, is credited as the first show choir in America, mixing choreography with choral singing. Each year at its College of the Performing Arts, the organization provides approximately 250 talented 17- to 23-year-olds from across the United States and the world with education in music, dance, performance and teaching methods.