Disney's Christmas Parade Will Feature Local Dancers

Dancers from Orlandi Dance Center will be in the televised Christmas Day parade on ABC.

If you tune into the Christmas Day Parade on ABC, you might recognize some local dancers on the march.  Seventeen students from Orlandi Dance Center will head to Florida from Nov. 28 to Dec. 2 to participate in the holiday festivities, which include filming the parade shown on TV.  Orlandi's contribution will be divided into three performances. "The [parade] that's filmed for ABC, we're in two numbers. That will be on TV Christmas morning," said Jenna Rose Pepe, Orlandi's director. "The third number, that one's not filmed, will be in Disney World in front of park guests." The dancers have been circling the dance floor in Orlandi's Havertown studio for weeks, practicing the routines. "We're going around room because that's the only way to …

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