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Sara Konsbruck decided to leave her master's degree
behind and instead spends her time sharing her love
of dance and fitness with young and old alike.
I don't even know why I started dancing.
I was three years old.
I, I'm sure it was something that my parents
signed me up for thinking that I would enjoy not,
I'm sure not realizing that it would turn into
almost a career for me.
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Did I always think I was a good dancer?
Um, no.
I think when I finally getting really confident
in my dancing wasn't until college where I was able
to just be really comfortable in my own skin
and feel good on stage.
I was a school counselor for two years part-time
and I had to travel to get to the school that had
hired me, and the travel just turned too much.
You know it was, I was doing the school
counseling thing two days a week.
I was working in the town where I lived for a couple
days a week, I was waitressing on the
weekends, teaching dance and fitness in the
evenings, it was, it was insane.
It was just so much so this year I decided that
something had to go and, and it was the school
counseling thing strangely enough even though that's
what I had my degree in and what I had worked for
all of college and all of grad school it just,
I didn't love it as much as I love dancing.
I do like to work.
I like to be busy I think is the better description.
I don't, being, standing still is just not
something that I was ever really good at so and I
just happen to work a lot.
I'm learning that there are other important things
besides work.
Relationships being one of them so a new relationship
has made me realize like I can slow down and I can
stop and smell the roses more or less.
The studio that I teach at locally is called
Footnotes Studio of Dance and Footnotes has been
around since 2004 where actually my best friend
opened, opened the doors our senior year in college
so we were both college seniors working to finish
our degrees and my friend decided she needed to open
a dance studio so I stood by here and helped her out
with the knowledge that I was going to be leaving
and going to grad school the following year.
So I helped her open that up and taught with her,
worked with her very closely on that.
She continued running the studio while I was in grad
school and then when I ended up coming back to
town, she welcomed me back with open arms and was
really excited to have me teaching for her again so yeah.
When I was in college, I was a member of a student
organization called Dance Ensemble and through my
four years of college I choreographed for them and
then I spent a year as the co-chair of the organization.
Then now coming back to town,
the organization has asked me to choreograph for them.
So for the last, this will be the third year in a row
now that I've been the guest choreographer for
Dance Ensemble.
Not only am I working with young dancers age fourth
grade to twelfth grade but I'm also working with
college students and, and teaching dance that way too.
I am a licensed Zumba instructor and Zumba is a
dance fitness class that emphasizes Latin dance and
Latin styles, but that's not all it is.
It's really an international dance and
international music style of fitness class.
It's, it's a lot of fun.
You can incorporate tons of different dance styles,
tons of different music styles,
some things that are top 40 pop music,
then you've got a salsa song that is 20 years old
or you can incorporate just about anything and
call it Zumba.
I love teaching Zumba especially to non-dancers
because somebody who was a basketball player growing
up will come to class and be really successful,
or somebody who had never really done a lot of
sports or fitness types of things will come to a
Zumba class and leave with a big smile on their face
and that's, that's what I love about Zumba.
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I just, I'm not a dancer but whenever I do
Zumba I feel like I can dance.
I love Sara's Zumba cause she has so much fun doing
it like, just her face like you can see on her
face that she just loved what she's doing.
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It's been a long time but I did come to the
very first class and I've loved it ever since.
It actually motivated me to start working out
because it actually is a fun workout,
she makes it enjoyable, she makes it energetic and
she just does a great job and it's,
it's a lot of fun.
For dance I do all my own choreography.
I will get inspiration from different things or,
or see maybe another group did a similar style and,
and borrow ideas from that.
I, I really like getting ideas from young dancers.
They come up with some pretty crazy stuff but
once in awhile, something that they do or a way that
they move will inspire a combination or a movement
for me in the choreography.
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I can't ever remember even wanting to
be a dancer; I just always was a dancer.
I started dancing when I was three and pretty much
never stopped.
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