{"id":7211,"date":"2021-07-20T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T22:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doctor-phillips\/?post_type=team_member&#038;p=7211"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:04:25","slug":"dasha-smirnova","status":"publish","type":"team_member","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doctor-phillips\/member\/dasha-smirnova\/","title":{"rendered":"Varvara (Barbara) Zhigulskaya &#8211; Manager\/Dance  instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Varvara has been dancing since the age of 7. She is the finalist of many national and international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>She moved to United States in 2018 where she started her teaching career in Fred Astaire Dance Studios. Varvara worked in Fred Astaire Dance Studio, Memphis from 2018 to 2019 and in Fred Astaire North Tampa from 2019 to 2023. She became a Top Overall Teacher, Top Customer Service representative and Top female instructor in Tampa Bay region.<\/p>\n<p>Varvara strives to provide the best service to her students, help them achieve their goals and see how their lives change because of dancing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Best achievements:<\/p>\n<p>\u2043 Fred Astaire National finalist in Standard<br \/>\n\u2043 Latvian National Champion in Standard<br \/>\n\u2043 Finalist of the World Championship U21 in Standard<br \/>\n\u2043 Finalist of many National Competitions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8152,"template":"","class_list":["post-7211","team_member","type-team_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doctor-phillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doctor-phillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doctor-phillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team_member"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doctor-phillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doctor-phillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}