Variations on a Tango Girl

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mavis transfers to a school of the arts at the start of her junior year to boost her dance credits and make herself a more well-rounded and attractive applicant. She doesn't plan on landing the lead in Chicago. She doesn't plan on meeting a dark and dreamy boy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Challenged by Notre Dame to write a personal essay describing how she is incomplete Mavis first thinks of her absent mother. Mavis is pushed by her best friend Fletch to go deeper but can't see past the hole her mother left behind.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mavis must balance the mounting pressures of school rehearsals and developing relationships while learning to see herself as more than the Mavis her mom left behind. On the line are her essay her future and her heart.</span></p><p></p>