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What motivated you to start At Your Beat?
I was working for other dance companies that were constantly telling people to dance like someone else and not really be themselves in order to be confident. I didn’t like this approach and felt that a lot of the businesses didn’t want to promote or include other types of people. Most dance classes and dance fitness classes were targetted towards cisgender women and I felt it needed to be broader and involve people of all genders, sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds. So, I decided to begin teaching on my own and started telling people to do things their way, rather than following the beat of others.