{"id":6971,"date":"2019-04-17T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/new-york-west-side\/?post_type=team_member&#038;p=6971"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T13:45:05","slug":"val-grebenin-studio-director","status":"publish","type":"team_member","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/new-york-west-side\/member\/val-grebenin-studio-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Grebenin \u2013 Studio Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Darius &amp; Jolanta Mosteika, Val is the owner of the Fred Astaire West Side Studio.\u00a0 Born in Lithuania, Val began studying dance at an early age and has been an instructor for more than 20 years.\u00a0 Val holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Ballroom Dance Coaching and teaches a wide range of students, from beginners to competitors.\u00a0 Before coming to the US, Val also did advanced training in sports psychology.\u00a0 In 2000, he was granted the distinguished \u201cassociate\u201d title by the Council of the U.K. Alliance of Professional Teachers of Dancing, and was a member of the Lithuanian Union of Dance Sport Professionals.\u00a0 Val believes in an engaged and dynamically based method of teaching.\u00a0 And, above all, it should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7157,"template":"","class_list":["post-6971","team_member","type-team_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/new-york-west-side\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/6971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/new-york-west-side\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/new-york-west-side\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team_member"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/new-york-west-side\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/6971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/new-york-west-side\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/new-york-west-side\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}