Dancing toward your dreams

LSMSA alum balances medicine and movement
  • Madeline Lorio (left) and Amalia Najera (right) perform Tethered at the LSMSA 2025 Informal Fall Dance Concert.
    Madeline Lorio (left) and Amalia Najera (right) perform Tethered at the LSMSA 2025 Informal Fall Dance Concert.
  • Madeline Lorio dances with the Tulane Shockwave Dance Team.
    Madeline Lorio dances with the Tulane Shockwave Dance Team.
    When Madeline Lorio, a 2021 LSMSA graduate, returned to the Treen Auditorium stage in the fall of 2025 as a choreographer and dancer for the Informal Fall Dance Concert, it was more than a homecoming performance. It was a moment of affirmation. She was living out a lesson she first learned at LSMSA: you don’t have to choose between your passions.Lorio is putting that idea into practice...

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