Mackenzie Carter started dancing ballet at 5 years old at Linda Fenton Dance Studio, and never left!  Mackenzie started competing in lyrical and jazz when she was 10 and has attended dozens of competitions since dancing as well as coaching as an assistant coach for their competition team for the last 12 years.   

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She was on her high school dance company where she was able to expand her dancing to hip-hop, modern, and contemporary as well as choreographing many dances for their concert.  Mackenzie had the opportunity to travel to New York City and study at Broadway Dance Center.  She has performed in Mountain West Ballet’s Nutcracker for many years in numerous roles, as well as their productions of Sleeping Beauty, 12 Dancing Princesses and Alice in Wonderland. In 2020 Mackenzie  began teaching and choreographing for Linda Fenton Dance Studio.

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She is a Graduate of the University of Utah with a B.S. In Human Development and Family Studies. She graduated from the U with her Masters degree in Occupational Therapy and works for Utah School's for the Deaf and Blind. Her passion is to help others across the lifespan and enjoys utilizing her skills from her education to benefit dancers.   Her favorite hobbies are reading, travelling, and hanging with her husband and her passion has always been dance.  She always looks forward to teaching and helping the next generation of dancers.