Randallstown Dancer to Perform in Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies

A Carver student will be performing at the opening ceremonies for the Special Olympics World Games this weekend in Los Angeles, according to an announcement from Baltimore County Public Schools.

Chelsea Mitchell, 15, who lives in Randallstown and is a rising sophomore at George Washington Carver Center for for Arts and Technology in Towson, will be dancing with the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, where she has been studying in an intensive summer program this month in Los Angeles, the announcement said.

During the school year, she is in the dance prime at Carver.

At the opening ceremonies this weekend, school officials say Mitchell will perform in a group that also includes her sister 19-year-old Corrin, a former Baltimore County student who is now enrolled in the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University in Pittsburgh.

It is not the first time in the spotlight for Chelsea Mitchell, who also sings, and in February performed at the inauguration for Gov. Larry Hogan with two of her other sisters, according to the announcement.

School officials said the performers began their studies under the tutelage of their mother, Marie Mitchell, who ran LaRe’s Dance Studio in Randallstown from 2000 to 2012.

The opening ceremonies for the Special Olympics will take place on Saturday, July 25, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. They will be broadcast on ESPN. Other performers include O.A.R., Avril Lavigne and Stevie Wonder. Celebrities in attendance include another Baltimore County native: Michael Phelps.

Screenshot from Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015/YouTube.