In honor of Countrywide Black Small business Month, “Good Early morning America” (GMA) stopped in Dallas, Texas, to highlight the Journey Dance Center and its owner Myatta Flanagan. The take a look at is a section of the morning show’s “Black Organization Boost” initiative to supply exposure and resources for Black business owners and companies, nationwide.
Much more than just a faculty for dance, Flanagan launched The Journey Dance Heart as an inclusive studio that focuses on offering accessible dance lessons and group illustration for all. Escalating up, Flanagan under no circumstances observed other dancers who looked like her in ballet course as a youthful female. Now as a skilled dancer, instructor, and choreographer, she is on a mission to modify that with classes that contain, ballet, tap, hip-hop, and acro-arts. In addition to a tradition of exclusivity, she discovered that the steep price of dance classes also minimal who could just take courses.
When founding The Journey Dance Center, Flanagan set out to fill a hole in the dance earth. The studio would “provide an enthusiastic, secure, nurturing and constructive environment for dancers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.” She even supplied absolutely free on the net lessons for households at the beginning of the pandemic.
Unfortunately, with modern hire boosts and monetary aftermath of the pandemic, Flanagan has dropped her dance studio headquarters and is now pressured into employing neighborhood rec centers to host college student methods.
To support Flanagan locate a long term, new house for her studio, the GMA crew presented Flanagan with a $20,000 verify from sponsor Wells Fargo that will aid Flanagan uncover a lasting house for the Journey Dance Centre. On top of that, the function bundled a video information from dance legend Debbie Allen, who congratulated Flanagan for her do the job to diversify the dance local community, as well as an Alvin Ailey VIP dance working experience for the founder.
Talking on the exciting choices, Flanagan claims, “It will help with the buildout for our up coming location and to put to our digital studio, that will incorporate STEM and the arts as well, that we can use to educate our pupils in the future.”
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