About Our Graduating Seniors

Arbor Mulligan

Working in genres from Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, and Jazz, to Hip Hop, Arbor Mulligan has embraced her love of dance at the Arts Center for 14 years. She has also served as a dance assistant since she was 13, sharing her enthusiasm for dance with the younger dance students. Arbor participated in several incredible shows at the Art Center; including Carnival Of The Animals, The Lorax, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, and many end-of-year showcases. She is graduating from Lawrence High School this month. At LHS, Arbor was heavily involved in the choral department, and the National Honor Society as well as serving as a student ambassador. Next fall, Arbor will attend Drake University in Des Moines, where she is undecided about her major, and plans on continuing dance classes as well as being a part of the choral program.

Caroline B Rk

Caroline Joy Börk started school at LAC arts based preschool and will graduate from Free State High School. Caroline has studied dance at LAC for 15 years including Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Musical Theatre Dance and 13 years of tap. Favorite roles from LAC theater: Burning Eldridge Hotel, The March Hare, Jemima/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Ursula/The Little Mermaid Jr, & Mary Poppins/Mary Poppins.

Caroline was awarded the Scholastic Silver Key in One Act play writing, International Thespian Festival Superior Rating recipient for original short film & music performance, KMEA regional jazz soloist, and art scholarships. She’s the FS Marching Band drum major & enjoys Jazz Band, Wind Ensemble, Improv Team, writing, ceramics, art & climbing team. After college, Caroline hopes to combine her interests with a career in intermedia arts.

Grace Xie

Grace Xie (18) has been a student of the Lawrence Arts Center for 14 years where she studied Ballet, Modern, and was a member of Lawrence Ballet Theatre for six years. Throughout her time at the Lawrence Arts Center, she performed in The Magic Toy Shop, Snow Queen, The Nutcracker, Cinderella, La Fille Mal Gardee, Lawrence Ballet Theatre’s annual performances, and at the Regional Dance America Midstates Festival.

Grace is the President of Free State High School’s National Honor Society, Co-President of Asian Culture Club, member of the Science Olympiad team, and cellist in the Symphonic Orchestra. Grace will be attending Northwestern University in the Fall where she plans on majoring in Statistics or Data Science and continuing to dance.

Gracia Greenhoot

Gracia Greenhoot (18) has been a student at the Lawrence Arts Center for 15 years; she studied Ballet, Modern, and Jazz and has been a member of Lawrence Ballet Theater for seven years. While at the Lawrence Arts Center, she performed in numerous productions including The Sleeping Beauty, The

Nutcracker, Giselle, La Fille mal Gardée, and Lawrence Ballet Theater’s annual spring performances. She also performed at and attended the Regional Dance America MidStates Festival five times as a member of Lawrence Ballet Theater. Additionally, she attended numerous summer intensives with the Lawrence Arts Center as well as with the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City.

Gracia will graduate from Lawrence Free State High School this May as a two-year member of the National Honor Society. Next year, she plans to attend Texas Christian University’s School of Classical and Contemporary Dance as a Ballet major and Movement Science minor.

Henry Horan

Henry Horan (17) has danced at the Lawrence Arts Center for the past twelve years, beginning with the Kansas Nutcracker. During his time at the Arts Center, Henry has worked on Ballet and Modern and has been a member of the Lawrence Ballet Theatre for the last three years. Outside of the Arts Center, Henry has participated in debate, forensics, and choir at Bishop Seabury Academy. Next year Henry plans to attend the University of Denver where he will pursue a degree in Environmental Science. Although he will not be majoring in dance, he plans to continue dancing at the University of Denver and in the surrounding area.

Linnaea Radley

Linnaea Radley (17) has been dancing since the age of three, beginning at the Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts. She’s studied at the Lawrence Arts Center for the past 9 years, focusing primarily on Ballet and Modern, danced with the Lawrence Ballet Theatre for the last 7, and twice been a recipient of the Carmine Ballere scholarship. Her favorite performances here include Sleeping Beauty, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, Gissele, La Fille Mal Gardee, Les Sylphides, LBT repertoire, and the Nutcracker.

Outside of dance, Linnaea is the eldest of six siblings, has so many diverse interests, sings with the LHS A Cappella Choir, and plans to major in History at KU while continuing to dance, possibly as a freelancer.

Robin Imbeau

Robin Heatwole Imbeau will be graduating from Lawrence Free State High School. They have danced at the Lawrence Arts Center since age 5, taking a range of dance classes such as ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary, and tap. Robin has also participated in Summer Youth Theatre, both on stage and in technical theater. Outside of the Lawrence Arts Center, Robin participates in choir and theatre at Free State. In the fall, they plan to study environmental science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Even though Robin will not be majoring in dance, they still hope to be involved with an on-campus tap group.