{"id":8466,"date":"2024-10-14T12:43:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/glenn-heights\/?page_id=8466"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:28:27","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/glenn-heights\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News & Media | Fred Astaire Dance Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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May 2018 | Tucson News Now<\/em><\/p>

Watch the news clip here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.TucsonNewsNow.com\/clip\/14359982\/dancing-like-royals\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>

\"\"TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) \u2013\u00a0Step by step, they\u2019re practicing and feeling the music that moves them.<\/p>

\u201cYou find the right tune. You find the right style. You tell a story. It feels like a different kind of freedom,\u201d said Viola Watson, who\u2019s been a student at Fred Astaire Dance Studio for two years.<\/p>

As she takes her place on the dance floor, as a student in her lessons, Watson can\u2019t help but feel royal.<\/p>

\u201cThere is something to ballroom dancing,\u201d she said. \u201cIt changes the way that you hold yourself, the way you walk into a room, and it\u2019s so subtle you don\u2019t even realize it. But it\u2019s super powerful and probably one of those hidden reasons why I enjoy it so much and I don\u2019t even think about.\u201d<\/p>

Watson is watching closely as, more than 5,000 miles away, a Royal Wedding is taking shape in London.<\/p>

Prince Harry is set to marry Meghan Markle, an American actress<\/a>, at St. George\u2019s Chapel in Windsor early Saturday morning, May 19.<\/p>

Americans in particular \u2013 some 46 U.S. broadcast affiliates will cover the wedding \u2013 are obsessing because the bride is one of their own<\/a>, the Associated Press reports.<\/p>

\"\"\u201cI\u2019m really excited about the fact that Harry is marrying an American, an\u00a0African-American, an older woman, a divorced woman, a woman who has been an actress \u2013 which probably in Victorian England wasn\u2019t considered the highest form of career. I think it really shows that we all can be royalty today, no matter how we started out and no matter what sort of strikes you may think you have against you. There\u2019s still a chance that you will be a princess in somebody\u2019s mind,\u201d said Roberta Shaffer, a student at Fred Astaire Dance Studio.<\/p>

Step by step, Shaffer transforms when she dances.<\/p>

\u201cYour posture improves. You feel like you could have a crown on your head and it wouldn\u2019t fall off,\u201d she said.<\/p>

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