Dance students from Florida find refuge from Hurricane Milton with the Atlanta Ballet [Video]

The best ballet dancers say the art form is a combination of body and mind. You never want to lose your focus.

“I’m personally trying ‘not’ to watch it. I think it makes me worry about it,” ballet student Paris-Renee Street said. “I don’t worry about it too much. It’s so far away and there’s nothing I can do to change it,” classmate Nathan Lachenmayer said.

Many of the students in a class at the Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education on Thursday arrived a few days ago after outrunning Hurricane Milton.

“It was a little rough, I’ll tell you. But we made it out just in time,” The HARID Conservatory’s Mariana Raya said.

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30 students from Boca Raton are in Atlanta, avoiding the storm.

“Gordon Wright, who is the Director of The HARID Conservatory called me on Tuesday and said the kids are coming. ‘Can they take classes?’ I …