Inside the studio with Paulina,
Well, we MADE IT! 2020 is in the rearview mirror and we have a brand new year ahead of us!
I have to share that on December 31st right after the ball dropped I found myself with a head full of thoughts (and bubbles) about 2020, so I grabbed my computer and started writing. I woke up 2 hours later with my computer still on my lap and about 2 paragraphs written 😆.
Dear Dance Family,
Sixteen years ago, on April 1, 2004, dance 101 was born. Three months earlier I cashed out my IRA ($40,000 - it was everything I had) and signed a lease on a small one room studio on Miami Circle in Buckhead. I had NO idea what I was getting myself into - I only had the dream of a beautiful studio that would touch others' lives as dance had touched mine. I was 46 at the time. I didn't know anything - not the first thing - about running a studio - much less how to create a concept that did not exist (there were no adult only studios at the time that welcomed inexperienced dancers). Paulina, in college back then, came up with the name Dance 101.Â
Dear Dance Family,
Wow! Alpharetta has already been open a week! And what a first week back! Our new procedures ran smoothly, everyone knew what to do, attendance was great...everybody was ready to dance!! The studio was filled with the most beautiful loving energy. It was a light in this dark time. I think Alpharetta dancer, Linda Mayse summed it up beautifully in her note.
Thank you Linda!
So let’s get Atlanta ready, shall we…Â
