{"id":3890,"date":"2017-07-10T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2017-07-10T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T10:00:48","slug":"gender-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/lifestyle-self-improvement\/gender-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/iStock-612646038.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/iStock-612646038-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3892\" \/><\/a>While traditional ballroom dancing involved a man and a woman in partnership, it&#8217;s not required that dancing couples be different genders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">We&#8217;ve had women who are friends sign up as a couple to take lessons. We&#8217;ve had same-sex couples come in to learn to dance together. All you need to do is designate one person as the leader and the other as the follower and you&#8217;re ready to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Over the years, we&#8217;ve had to fight the stigma that any man who dances is gay. We&#8217;ve had to deconstruct stereotypes and build new definitions of people who dance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/iStock-544357744.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/iStock-544357744-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3891\" \/><\/a>You see, dancing is simply about people coming together to flow through steps and stances and put on a beautiful show. It&#8217;s about knowing how to move together, knowing how to give and take, knowing when to move forward and when to step back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">It&#8217;s about smiling, moving arms and legs, dressing for the occasion, feeling proud of the movements you can make.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">And frankly, gender has nothing to do with it. Everyone is welcome at Fred Astaire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While traditional ballroom dancing involved a man and a woman in partnership, it&#8217;s not required that dancing couples be different genders. We&#8217;ve had women who are friends sign up as a couple to take lessons. We&#8217;ve had same-sex couples come in to learn to dance together. All you need to do is designate one person [&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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle-self-improvement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","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=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}