Slippery Rock Ballerina

Eden Gade posing for pictures in the courtyard at the Boston Public Libr

Transfer student Eden Gade made her way to Slippery Rock University as an Exercise Science Major due to her past of dancing ballet. Beginning ballet at the age of three, her long history with dance lead to a battle with surgery on her ankle that resulted in her quitting dance and to pursue a career as a physical therapist "that works with ballet dancers specifically," she said. 

Like all young girls, we desire to take dance classes, such as ballet or tap, but for Gade, at age 13, she took her love for ballet more seriously and continued to pursue it further after attending her first summer intensive in North Carolina and spent her next few summers attending other summer intensives in New York City, Boston, Miami City, and Orlando.

Stayed tuned for her more in-depth story about her love of ballet, and her journey to Slippery Rock University to help other dancers. 

 

Gade (far right) posing with her class

for a dance magazine.