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It\u2019s amazing how busy we\u2019ve been this summer.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s amazing how busy we\u2019ve been this summer.<\/p>\n
I must say, we\u2019ve never experienced such a successful summer! Usually, around July 4th, we slow down. In fact, in the past, we\u2019ve closed the studio for July 4th week because we knew we would have few students.<\/p>\n
Not this year.<\/p>\n
This year, perhaps because July 4th was a mid-week holiday, we closed for one day only, the actual holiday. The other four days, we were swamped.<\/p>\n
I am not kidding. Swamped as in more than 150 lessons that week, and it was a four-day week, with three teachers on vacation.<\/p>\n
This is crazy! A good kind of crazy, of course.<\/p>\n
The week of July 16th, we taught 292 private lessons. That\u2019s unprecedented for the middle of July! Frankly, it\u2019s unprecedented for our studio in general \u2013 our previous record was 275 private lessons in a week.<\/p>\n
I know some of this can be attributed to students preparing for competitions coming up or getting ready to perform in our August show. Some are practicing before their wedding, or the wedding of their children. But that\u2019s not enough to put us over the mark in such a robust way.<\/p>\n
People just want to learn to dance, and they\u2019re not hesitating because it\u2019s beautiful outside and they could golf or go boating or sit leisurely by the pool.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re coming inside for an hour of swing or fox trot or rumba. It\u2019s an activity they don\u2019t want to halt for the summer.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never seen such a healthy July, and I\u2019m loving it!<\/p>\n
Generally, summer is a slow season. I guess we can say goodbye to that assumption because it looks like our passion for dance is infectious. People are being bitten by the bug, and they just won\u2019t stop. They must dance. And they must dance with us.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a fever in our studio, and it\u2019s for dancing. The sky is truly the limit when you love to dance. You can always craft a new routine, find a song that inspires you, kick it up a notch, commit to competing at a new event.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re part of a vibrant community like ours, you just don\u2019t want to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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