Miss Cindy's Dance Studio Bringing Nearly Half a Century of Experience
Cindy Nolan shares her story of how she fell in love with dance.
Cindy Nolan, also known as Miss Cindy, has been dancing nearly all her life (well since age three, at least). Nolan said that ever since she was a child she wanted to dance. Her plan to open a dance studio started when she was very young. ‘I wanted to be a dance teacher,” she said. “Ever since I was in high school that’s all I ever wanted to do.” Nolan said she started teaching in eighth grade. At that time, she was learning from Clare O’Malley, a former Rockette. Nolan said when she was a child, she had always wanted to be a Rockette to emulate her heroine, but never made the height requirement. “When you’re a young girl you love your teacher and you want to be just like them,” she said. Nolan trained with O’Malley until she graduated …
Isabelle Sadie
1:35 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
I've been reading stories about opening up a dance studio. What I'd like to know from Miss Cindy though is if she took the necessary steps to learn business. I was told and have confirmed from this resource (http://www.openadancestudio.com/) that it is not enough to be good at what you are doing (dancing in this case). You need to at least become good at business. This is what is keeping me from … more ›