{"id":126,"date":"2008-03-11T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T22:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/trinity-arts-dance-academy\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T22:11:32","slug":"trinity-arts-dance-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/trinity-arts-dance-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity Arts Dance Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/km2-custom.jpg\" alt=\"km2-custom.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" \/>Sunday before last, I was talking to Jollene Berghoff at church about where to find an adult tap class (since she teaches dance).   She told me that she only teaches clogging, but I should ask Kjelene Deakin, who owns the dance studio where Jollene works.  In fact, she found Kjelene right then and introduced us.  There isn&#8217;t an adult tap class right now, but she&#8217;s been thinking of starting one and said she&#8217;d get back to me.  At Enrichment meeting two days later, Kjelene found me and asked for my phone number, saying she had &#8220;had a brainstorm&#8221; about me&#8230;  I didn&#8217;t think much of it, figuring it was just about starting up the class.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning, Kjelene called me and asked if I would be interested in being an <em>instructor<\/em> at her dance academy!  I was completely floored.  I tried to figure out what I might have said on Sunday that would give her the idea that I was qualified to teach dance &#8211; that &#8220;I&#8217;d taken tap and jazz and a little ballet years ago&#8221; didn&#8217;t seem to fit the bill to me.  She explained that she wanted a new teacher to share her &#8220;Tiny Tots&#8221; classes &#8211; kids from 2-5 years old &#8211; which required much more in the way of personality, patience, and &#8220;storytelling&#8221; than perfect technique.<\/p>\n<p>So, today was my first day at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinityartsdance.net\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity Arts Dance Academy<\/a>, where I first attended Kjelene&#8217;s Pilates class to get warmed up, and then shadowed her for Tiny Tots and KinderBallet.  She had half a dozen extra kids and moms there than usual, taking today&#8217;s class to try it out for free.  It made for a pretty crazy morning.  It was really fun, though, and I loved being back on the dance floor.  I only had my tap shoes on for about ten minutes, but it felt so great!  I&#8217;m still a little amazed at what I&#8217;ve gotten myself into, but it&#8217;s been fabulous so far!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday before last, I was talking to Jollene Berghoff at church about where to find an adult tap class (since she teaches dance). She told me that she only teaches clogging, but I should ask Kjelene Deakin, who owns the dance studio where Jollene works. In fact, she found Kjelene right then and introduced us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[48,49],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-22","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}