{"id":8033,"date":"2024-06-18T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/diamond-bar\/?post_type=team_member&#038;p=8033"},"modified":"2024-06-18T10:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:30:45","slug":"mikhail-nikolaev-and-ksenia-kireeva-studio-owners","status":"publish","type":"team_member","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/diamond-bar\/member\/mikhail-nikolaev-and-ksenia-kireeva-studio-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikhail Nikolaev and Ksenia Kireeva \u2013 Studio Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikhail and Ksenia are originally from Russia.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>They have been dancing since they were 6 years old.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Although Ksenia had a great love for ballet, she decided to concentrate on Ballroom dancing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Mikhail and Ksenia met at their sport college. According to Mikhail, \u201cWhen I first saw Ksenia, she was standing at the ballet bar in our ballroom dance class.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I thought she was so elegant and charming!\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It was the start of their beautiful journey that began in 2007 as professional ballroom dancers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>They have since traveled around the world to study, compete and perform and become Russian champions, Fred Astaire World Champions, European Bronze medalists and World Finalists.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>They are happy to share their knowledge with students and their belief that \u201cDance is magic!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It is grace, elegance, harmony and much, much more!\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Mikhail and Ksenia are proud to own their Fred Astaire Dance Studio where everyone is invited to join them and discover their \u201chappy friendly place to dance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7315,"template":"","class_list":["post-8033","team_member","type-team_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/diamond-bar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/8033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/diamond-bar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/diamond-bar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team_member"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/diamond-bar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/8033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/diamond-bar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/diamond-bar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}