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Mid-Ohio Valley ballerinas dance for joy over scholarships

Photo Provided Annie Woofter, left, and Anna Fatta, right, both members of the Mid-Ohio Valley Ballet Company and Academy of Fine Arts, have received scholarships for their secondary education.

PARKERSBURG — The Mid-Ohio Valley Ballet Company and Academy of Fine Arts has announced graduating Senior Company members Annie Woofter and Anna Fatta have been awarded scholarships for the 2018-19 academic year.

The scholarships bring the total of scholarship monies offered to MOV Ballet and Academy of Fine Arts students in dance and/or academics since 1981 to $1,030,000.

Woofter has been awarded an academic scholarship of $60,000 to Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. She will also be celebrating her 15th anniversary as a dance student with the MOVB. She began her dance career at the age of 3 and studied two years of pre-dance and continued her studies to become proficient in tap, jazz, modern dance, contemporary, creative dance and ballet.

Woofter has appeared in every production of the MOVB since the age of 8 and the annual Revue show of the Academy of Fine Arts since she was 3. Some of her more notable roles have been in the annual Nutcracker as Clara and in several original ballets presented by the company where she performed lead roles, including Pinocchio and Rapunzel.

She has been active at Parkersburg High School in JET — the Junior Engineering Technical Society and will be going to the National JET competition in Georgia. She is president of the Thespian Troupe, served on Student Council and a member of the Speech & Debate Team. She will study bio-medical engineering. She is the daughter of Val and Andrew Woofter.

Fatta will be celebrating her 13th anniversary as a MOVB member and will attend the University of Kentucky and major in Chemistry. Fatta has been awarded a full scholarship of $150,000 plus an additional $20,000 scholarship toward two years of housing needs.

Fatta has performed the role of Clara in the annual Nutcracker and in various other roles and danced a lead role in Pinocchio as well. She has appeared in every production of the MOVB since she was 8 years old and every annual Revue show of the Academy of Fine Arts since she was 5.

Fatta has studied creative dance, ballet, tap, jazz, modern and contemporary dance. At Parkersburg High School she is a member of the Speech and Debate Team, Vice President of the Thespians, a member of Student Council, participated in Quiz Bowl, is Secretary of the Key Club, President of the National Honor Society and is a published author having penned the book “The Illuminated Dark.”

She is an accomplished violinist and has been a music student of David Puls where she has studied the violin for nine years. She is the daughter of Amy Matthews and Dominic Fatta.

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