{"id":2557,"date":"2016-08-22T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2016-08-22T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T10:00:28","slug":"dancing-with-patti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/dancing-with-patti\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing with Patti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A few words with our student, Patti Brozek:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/08\/Tango-dancers-000064023203_Medium.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2559\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/08\/Tango-dancers-000064023203_Medium-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tango dancers\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2559\" \/><\/a>\u201cI just love it,\u201d says Patti Brozek, a 44-year-old Bloomfield Hills mother of two. \u201cWhen I am dancing, I am not a mother, I am not a wife, I am not an employee. I am just me.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patti started dancing after a colleague whisked her onto the dance floor at a work party and flipped her over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Ohmigod, do that again!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The friend encouraged her to sign up for lessons and after doing so at Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Bloomfield Hills, she \u201cwas hooked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the fun of it, and the thrill of performing, ballroom dance has taught Patti a myriad of lessons \u2013 not the least of which is how crucial it is for busy people to make time for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned patience,\u201d Patti says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoing something fun and finding time to do it is so important. Try to find someone who\u2019s not smiling when they dance \u2013 you can\u2019t! It\u2019s pure fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/08\/Ballroom-dance-floor-abstract-5465-000080104483_Medium.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2558\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/08\/Ballroom-dance-floor-abstract-5465-000080104483_Medium-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ballroom dance floor abstract 5465\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2558\" \/><\/a>Students often come for one reason (a child\u2019s wedding, a desire to lose weight) and stay for another (newfound camaraderie, a sense of belonging, an unexpected love of performing). There are so many benefits of ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University researchers confirm that ballroom dance can help prevent Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia. Other studies show regular dancing reduces depression, builds confidence and helps with weight loss, too.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it\u2019s great fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few words with our student, Patti Brozek: \u201cI just love it,\u201d says Patti Brozek, a 44-year-old Bloomfield Hills mother of two. \u201cWhen I am dancing, I am not a mother, I am not a wife, I am not an employee. I am just me.\u201d Patti started dancing after a colleague whisked her onto the [&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":[22,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-info-news-trends","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","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=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}