Slope Teen Dance Troupe Raising Funds for Performance in Scotland

From the Brooklyn Paper:

Park Slope’s own teenage dance troupe is one high-step closer to strutting its stuff on the world stage.

The 16 dancing teenagers of Dancewave, the Fourth Avenue-based instructional studio, have been selected to perform at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival in Scotland next June — but the group still needs to raise roughly $29,000 to get them across the pond.

“We applied and when got accepted, we thought, ‘We’ll find someway to do this,’” said Princeton Spicer, 17, the troupe’s sole male.

This week, Dancewave just might have found that way. Nick Kotsonis, the owner of Park Slope Health and Fitness, stepped forward with a pledge to match up to $10,000 in donations.

---The group was the only American group selected, Dancewave would represent not only Brooklyn, but the entire United States.

To donate, visit www.dancewave.org.