{"id":3227,"date":"2017-03-13T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2017-03-13T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T10:00:36","slug":"his-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/fred-astaire-fads-history\/his-words\/","title":{"rendered":"His Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Astaire was fond of saying: \u201cSome people seem to think that good dancers are born but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s our philosophy at Fred Astaire Dance Studio. Many people think you need to be born with the ability to dance. But our guru, our great example of talent, Fred Astaire, said, <em>no, you need training.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It makes sense. With any skill, you may be naturally gifted or have an inclination toward a sport or an art form, but without proper training and repetition, you don\u2019t have much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/03\/iStock-491545234.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3232\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/03\/iStock-491545234-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3232\" \/><\/a>Would you golf without hitting many thousands of balls in practice before joining a golf outing?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Would you expect to make it onto a pro sports team without years of practice, coaching and blood, sweat, tears?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Would you dare to dance a ballet on stage without repetitive practice and training in a studio?<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely not.<\/p>\n<p>So why does anyone think you can partner dance well without taking lessons and practicing?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a skill like any other, requiring practice and repetition, guidance and instruction.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/iStock-491103932.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3228\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/iStock-491103932-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Instructor in dance school with couple\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3228\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of natural skill, you can\u2019t shine on the parquet without effort \u2013 and a lot of it!<\/p>\n<p>Of course you can learn how to dance. People often struggle and lament when they see a couple glide as if effortless across the dance floor, wishing they could do that with such ease.<\/p>\n<p>Ask them. I bet it didn\u2019t just happen overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Astaire was fond of saying: \u201cSome people seem to think that good dancers are born but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.\u201d That\u2019s our philosophy at Fred Astaire Dance Studio. Many people think you need to be born with the ability to dance. But our guru, our great example [&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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fred-astaire-fads-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","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=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}