Brooklyn Mack, received the Princess Grace Award October 25, 2007, at Sotheby's New York. Brooklyn Mack fell in love with ballet when he was 12 years old while on a field trip with his classmates from Elgin, S.C. to see LifeChance performed by Columbia Classical Ballet. When Radenko Pavlovich, artistic director of Columbia Classical Ballet, agreed to teach him, Mack rode the bus everyday from Elgin to Pavlovich Dance School in Forest Acres. After practice, Mack walked to Providence Hospital to meet his mother after she finished her nursing shift. Mack did this six days a week.

Mack's determination paid off. He danced with the American Ballet Theatre in New York and received the second highest honor in the ballet world, the senior silver medal, on June 30, 2006, at the USA International Ballet Competition.

Mack has reached another milestone in his career. He received a Princess Grace Award Dance Fellowship, Orlando Ballet, October 25, 2007, at Sotheby's New York. The Princess Grace Foundation USA (PGF USA) presented 22 awards worth $600,000 to emerging artists in theater, dance, and film and two Princess Grace Statue Awards to artists who have previously won awards and shown achievement and growth in the respective fields. Every year, PGF USA awards these prizes to support its mission of providing crucial support to emerging artists in America.

Brooklyn Mack, winner of the silver senior medal at the USA International Ballet Competition. With him is his teacher Radenko Pavlovich Lyn Tally, another student of Radenko Pavlovich, received the Princess Grace Award in 1996.

The PGF USA is a public charity formed after the death of Princess Grace in 1982. It awards scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships to assist emerging theater, dance, and film artists.

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