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Center for Social Dance

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Center for Social Dance
2807 Jolly Road, Okemos, 48864, MI, United States
Welcome to the official Facebook page for the Center for Social Dance. We hope to connect interested learners to our studio to share the language of dance. The Center for Social Dance has three focus points; Adult Lesson Program, Special Events, and Outreach. Most of the Center’s adult classes take place in the evenings and weekends. Dancers can register as a couple or as a single dancer but classes rotate dance partners so that dancers have an opportunity to discover many different lead and following styles as well as have an opportunity to gain additional experiences in patterns and styling. We like to think of learning to social dance like learning a new language, and we believe that the best way for anyone to learn the communication component of a language, or partner dancing, is to have an opportunity to try out the language, or in our case the dance, with many other dancers at different levels. The Center offers a variety of special events from wedding dances, holiday gatherings and studio rental, to fundraising events and corporate team building experiences in the workplace. The Center also offers weekly practice dance parties and afternoon tea dances in order to practice what was taught in lessons in a social dance setting. The Social Dance Project outreach program is sponsored by The Center for Social Dance and people like you in our community, as well as businesses, who have partnered with the Center. The Social Dance Project has three specific outreach goals for at risk school districts, school districts not at risk and off site programing, and at risk children. The Center’s founder, Joyce Stoughton-Kim became certified as a ballroom and Latin dance instructor in 1987. During her career, Joyce won numerous awards and enjoyed many performances, and was even inducted to the Michigan Swing Dance Hall of Fame and the National Hustle Hall of Fame. During her schooling at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, she also wrote The Detroit Hustle, a manual defining the Detroit Hustle while sharing its unique history through dance and verse, and the Dance Project syllabus which adds inspiration to her new venture as founder of the Social Dance Project, a youth outreach program that ties social dance to schools' curriculum.
 
 
 
 
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