{"id":3049,"date":"2017-01-02T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2017-01-02T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T10:00:18","slug":"the-new-year-of-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/the-new-year-of-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Year of Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-511934904.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3052\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-511934904-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Empty road to upcoming 2017 against the big cloud\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3052\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to 2017, with opportunities for growth on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Business growth, personal growth, time to finally try that thing you\u2019ve been wanting to try.<\/p>\n<p>From where we sit, it looks like dance will continue to attract new students, new performers, and more attention on TV and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>From an industry perspective, dancing continues to grow. Here are our predictions for the dance industry in 2017:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-157424296.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3051\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-157424296-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Ballet Studio, Old Building\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3051\" \/><\/a>More studios<\/strong>. Nationwide, dance is still on the rise. We\u2019ll see more studios opening in Michigan and across the country. (You may even see us opening another one in Michigan!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>More students<\/strong>. People are realizing that anyone can dance. They\u2019re coming into the studio and giving it a try. They\u2019re inspired by popular TV dance shows and advertising images of couples happily dancing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wheelchair dance is going to take off<\/strong>. More and more trained instructors skilled in wheelchair dance are coming to the United States from abroad and that\u2019s because wheelchair dance is finally becoming a real thing here in the States. Overseas, it\u2019s always been a prominent area of competition. We are now seeing that blossom in the U.S. Check out our Dance Mobility program!<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-480573875.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3050\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/12\/iStock-480573875-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wheelchair dancing in outside\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3050\" \/><\/a>Real men will dance<\/strong>. It\u2019s happening even here in our town! Calvin Johnson, the big wide receiver who ended up making it to the finals on <em>Dancing with the Stars<\/em>, first thought he couldn\u2019t dance. Such a great athlete \u2013 and yet he was afraid of the parquet. He faced his fear and found that not only could he dance, he loved the fitness and emotional benefits of it, too. Seeing a big football jock who was afraid to dance conquer his fear and really succeed is inspiring for all men.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dancing will take over.<\/strong> I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of ads featuring couples dancing \u2013 American Express, Viagra, you name it. It\u2019s subtle but powerful. People are starting to relate happiness, success and satisfaction with dancing! I believe we\u2019ll see more and more ads, commercials, and other popular culture accented by photos and videos of people dancing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! Welcome to 2017, with opportunities for growth on the horizon. Business growth, personal growth, time to finally try that thing you\u2019ve been wanting to try. From where we sit, it looks like dance will continue to attract new students, new performers, and more attention on TV and around the world. From an [&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-3049","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\/3049","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=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}