I am Jamie, owner of Dance Time, I am 22 and opened my studio at 19. I have been teaching since I was 18 but assisting since I was 10. I teach tap, jazz, preschool and occasionally ballet. I have hired teachers to teach hip hop, acro and ballet at my studios. I have danced since age 4 I took mainly tap and jazz but also ballet. I have never taken hip hop except for at a few workshops.

I was the one who initiated my starting dance, my parents didnt just put me in it. My mother took me to a carnival when I was 3 1/2 and we watched a local dance studio perform. I then spent the rest of the summer dancing around the house in dress up shoes pretending to be onstage. My parents knew they had better get me into dance class. From the time I was tiny, I always made up and pretended to perform my own routines. I was rarely without dance shoes on even in the house. When I was 10 I began assisting my dance teacher with the baby classes and it was then I decided I was going to have my own dance studio someday. I remember spending my summers about age 10 organizing all the neighborhood children and teaching them dance routines I made up and having "recitals" out on our deck at the end of each summer.

I beleive I was born to lead and to teach. But I also dont think I was meant to just be a teacher and work for someone else. I like the responsibility and the freedom of running my own studio.