After finishing high school with good grades, Madonna received a scholarship to study dance at Michigan University. This photo originates from her time there. Always striving for better things, on the advice of her ballet teacher Madonna left University for New York City to pursue a dance career. In a 2008 interview with the Daily Mirror, Madonna said: "It was the bravest thing I'd ever done."
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