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 I get asked Why I am doing what I am doing? Why take on this venture? There are a lot of reasons!
As a little girl I loved to dance. All I wanted to do was dance. I dreamed of being a ballerina. I begged and begged for lessons. I loved to perform. I learned how to work hard. I loved expressing myself through dance. I grew in technique and abilities. I learned that you have to work for what you want. I learned how to pour your soul into something you love. I learned that life is hard but through diligence you receive your reward. I also found that no matter what happened in my day I could shut the world away and dance. I gleaned from my teachers a lot of life lessons. I found strong and lasting friendships in my fellow dancers. Now that I have a family I want my boys and my girls to be able to find their niche, something they love, something that inspires them.
Being such a new community trying to find a quality dance program for my daughters where they could grow like I had was difficult. One day after talking with my husband we both knew what I had to do. I had been teaching for 8 years in California and I missed it. Though taking on such a huge task as a studio of my own was daunting I knew I wanted to give my girls and others with similar dreams the same opportunities that I had been given. I wanted any child who loves to dance to be able have the opportunity. I want to provide an environment that is safe,loving, inspiring, and motivating, where children can start off with a dream and be able to realize them. A place where parents can feel confident their child is receiving proper skills, discipline and technique along with love.
I truly feel that as a studio and as supporting parents we are making dreams a reality. We are helping our children grow and learn and develop their talents. I truly believe Why.....is because of Them. How could I not share my love of dance , how could I not love them? I look in their eyes and know why!
These words from Marianne Williamson put it best how we want our students to feel about developing their talents:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkenss, that most frightens.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous-
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people
Won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some of us: it is in everyone,
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously Give other people permission to do the same.1
Thanks for bringing all of our dreams alive!
1Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love (New York: HaperCollins 1992.)
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