25 years after 13-year-old dancer's death, her legacy lives on at L.A. charter schools

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Twenty-five years after 13-year-old Gabriella Axelrad's death, her legacy lives on at the dance-oriented Gabriella Charter Schools.

The Angelus Temple megachurch in Echo Park was the unlikely venue for the Gabriella Charter Schools' year-end dance recitals. Friends and family packed the 5,300-seat, three-story theater for two performances on a Saturday in June, which transported them from California's redwood forests and Central Valley farms to the schools' home of Los Angeles.

' Fifth-grader Nathan Sandoval is one of the scholarship recipients from the South L.A. campus. His mother, Nora Martinez, was 'in shock' when she found out about the opportunity. 'I feel so blessed because they see my son has talent,' she said. 'These are achievements that he's doing himself because he loves .' Martinez said the 11-year-old was a born performer who finally shed his shyness at GCS.

 

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