I fell in love with dance by the age of five and took classes in ballet through college. In high school, I studied both ballet and jazz with the Bonnie Haney Dance Company in the Fargo, North Dakota area.  Later, I took swing dance lessons weekly, for years, at both the Wabasha Street Caves and the Tapestry Folkdance Center in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and belly dance classes at The Cassandra School in Minneapolis.  

I’ve been certified in Zumba since 2010 and in Belly Dance Fitness since 2013.  When I moved to Macomb, I was thrilled to join the belly dance troupe, Banat Casablanca, and enjoyed many Belly Fit classes with Anne Dixon when Anne was teaching at Free Range Yoga.