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    Mar 01, 2023 4 minutes

    Lake Placid choreographer steps onto new stage

    BY GWENDOLYN CRAIG Tiffany Rea- Fisher, the new Adirondack Diversity Initiative director, is used to taking center stage.

    The dancer, choreographer and artistic director who heads the Lake Placid School of Dance, was chosen from several candidates to take leadership of the Adirondack North Country Association’s program aimed at making the region more welcoming.

    Rea-Fisher, 41, lives in Saranac Lake with her husband and 18-month-old daughter. She will continue her dance company work, which will require trips to New York City.

    She replaced ADI’s first director, Nicole Hylton-Patterson, who left in October.

    “A lot of time artists don’t get the credit that

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