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Speaker 1: Boston Dance Studio has welcomed about eight thousand people through

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Speaker 1: its doors since it opened three years ago, whether it

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Speaker 1: be for classes or letting local dance troops rent out

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Speaker 1: their space. But as local colleges face budget cuts, many

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Speaker 1: of them have now said they can't rent space anymore,

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Speaker 1: which is put the studio on the brink of closing.

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Speaker 1: Owner Tara Brown says this would be devastating.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't just affect our immediate community here. It is

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Speaker 2: affecting the students as well as a resource for colleges

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Speaker 2: that aren't able to provide that resource they're coming here.

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Speaker 1: They have to raise forty grand by the end of

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Speaker 1: the month. So far they've already covered half of that

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Speaker 1: in just three days of fundraising. Brown says, it's amazing

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Speaker 1: to see how the community has come together to help.

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Speaker 2: I've always known that this was really important work and

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Speaker 2: that we were having major impacts on people, but of

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Speaker 2: course seeing it, seeing the hundreds of messages and the

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Speaker 2: amount of people that have wanted to donate support Share

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Speaker 2: volunteer

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Speaker 1: From the West End, Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's Dews Radio