{"id":1977,"date":"2016-03-14T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2016-03-14T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T10:00:31","slug":"the-stories-we-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/the-stories-we-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stories We Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/03\/storytelling-18642-3-1940x1293.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/03\/storytelling-18642-3-1940x1293-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"storytelling-18642-3-1940x1293\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Call it the Story Corps of Dance Studios.<\/p>\n<p>We really do have an interesting group of students, representing all kinds of cultures, all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Name a country and we&#8217;ve likely had someone from there as a student.<\/p>\n<p>We also welcome people from different socioeconomic groups &#8211; individuals we&#8217;ve worked with from philanthropic collaborations who might not be able to afford dance lessons but with whom we get to work thanks to our collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>We hear their stories, and learn about their life journeys. We meet breast cancer survivors and persons with disabilities. Retired individuals, professionals, doctors and lawyers, widows, parents with children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/03\/orange.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/03\/orange-300x172.png\" alt=\"orange\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>This business is interesting every single day.<\/p>\n<p>I always tell my staff that we have a great opportunity to meet amazing people and get to know their lives.<\/p>\n<p>When we talk with our students, we enrich our own lives. When our students meet one another, they expand their circles and their knowledge \u2013 and their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Dance is a great common denominator to bring together people you would not normally meet \u2013 from the super-wealthy and the famous to everyday, hard-working folks, and everyone in between.<\/p>\n<p>Dance isn\u2019t just about moving to the music. It\u2019s about expanding your mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it the Story Corps of Dance Studios. We really do have an interesting group of students, representing all kinds of cultures, all over the world. Name a country and we&#8217;ve likely had someone from there as a student. We also welcome people from different socioeconomic groups &#8211; individuals we&#8217;ve worked with from philanthropic collaborations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-info-news-trends"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}