{"id":7130,"date":"2010-07-14T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/norwalk\/?post_type=team_member&#038;p=7130"},"modified":"2023-12-13T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T16:23:30","slug":"dusan-kostic","status":"publish","type":"team_member","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/norwalk\/member\/dusan-kostic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusan Kostic \u2013 Ballroom Dance Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"E85\"><span id=\"E86\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">Dusan <\/span><span id=\"E87\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">was born in Serbia <\/span><span id=\"E88\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">and a<\/span><span id=\"E89\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">t the age of 6, his mother took him to his very first dance class<\/span><span id=\"E90\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">es<\/span><span id=\"E91\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> <\/span><span id=\"E92\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">for Latin &amp; Ballroom <\/span><span id=\"E93\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">Dances. <\/span><span id=\"E94\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">H<\/span><span id=\"E95\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">e <\/span><span id=\"E96\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">soon <\/span><span id=\"E97\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">bec<\/span><span id=\"E98\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">a<\/span><span id=\"E99\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">me <\/span><span id=\"E100\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">a <\/span><span id=\"E101\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">frequent competi<\/span><span id=\"E102\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">tor<\/span><span id=\"E103\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> <\/span><span id=\"E104\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">&amp; finalist <\/span><span id=\"E105\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">at National and International dance competitions<\/span><span id=\"E106\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"E107\"><span id=\"E108\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">In<\/span><span id=\"E109\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> 2011 <\/span><span id=\"E110\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">Dusan<\/span><span id=\"E111\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> <\/span><span id=\"E112\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">added additional dance styles like hip hop, street style, <\/span><span id=\"E114\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">dancehall<\/span><span id=\"E116\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> and modern dances to his performance skills<\/span><span id=\"E117\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">. <\/span><span id=\"E118\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">He became part of a <\/span><span id=\"E119\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">h<\/span><span id=\"E120\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">ip <\/span><span id=\"E121\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">h<\/span><span id=\"E122\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">op formation that achieved the <\/span><span id=\"E123\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">6th place on <\/span><span id=\"E124\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">the national TV<\/span><span id=\"E125\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> <\/span><span id=\"E127\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">show<\/span><span id=\"E128\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> <\/span><span id=\"E129\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">\u2019<\/span><span id=\"E131\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">\u2019Serbia has Talent\u201c<\/span><span id=\"E132\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"E133\"><span id=\"E134\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">In 2017 <\/span><span id=\"E135\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">Dusan<\/span><span id=\"E136\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> started <\/span><span id=\"E137\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">to work<\/span><span id=\"E138\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> at <\/span><span id=\"E139\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">the <\/span><span id=\"E140\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">Serbian CDT- Continuum Dance Theatre as a choreographer, instructor, performer, coordinator and performed many times <\/span><span id=\"E141\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">at the <\/span><span id=\"E142\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">Serbian National thea<\/span><span id=\"E143\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">ter.<\/span><span id=\"E144\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> <\/span><span id=\"E145\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">In 2019 h<\/span><span id=\"E146\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">e moved to U<\/span><span id=\"E147\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">SA<\/span><span id=\"E148\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\"> together with his partner Sanja <\/span><span id=\"E149\" class=\"qowt-font1-Calibri\">to be part of our FADS team and to continue his dancing career. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7126,"template":"","class_list":["post-7130","team_member","type-team_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/norwalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/7130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/norwalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/norwalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team_member"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/norwalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/norwalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}