I never planned on becoming a dance teacher. My career lives in business and marketing, working with multinational companies — spreadsheets, strategy decks, the occasional very long meeting. Dance was never supposed to be more than something fun I did on the side. Funny how things evolve.
How It Started
I started dancing in spring 2022, purely as a hobby. No grand plan, no five-year goal — I just liked how it felt. I got into reggaeton and lady style, with a bit of hip-hop mixed in, and I loved the energy of it enough that I ended up performing a couple of times as a backup dancer. Still just for fun, still just something I did after work.
Then Came 2025
In February 2025, I picked up two new styles at the same time: tango and K-pop choreography. They couldn’t be more different, and I think that contrast is exactly why the combination stuck with me. Tango, even in the short time I studied it, taught me something reggaeton and hip-hop hadn’t — a kind of quiet precision, the discipline of controlling every small movement on purpose. K-pop, on the other hand, felt like everything I already loved about dancing turned up to full volume: sharp, high-energy, and deeply satisfying to finally nail after hours of practice.
Somewhere in learning both at once, teaching K-pop to kids stopped being a hypothetical and became something I actually wanted to do.
Why Kids, Specifically
Working with kids aged 7 to 15 has turned out to be one of the most rewarding parts of this whole journey. Kids don’t dance to impress anyone — they dance because the music makes them want to move — and that honesty is contagious to be around. But every week, I also see something quieter happening underneath the choreography: kids working through shyness, staying focused through a tricky section, and building a kind of confidence that has nothing to do with how they look and everything to do with what they can do.
That’s the part most people overlook when they think of dance class as just an after-school activity.
Why I Started This Blog
I still balance all of this with a full-time career, and I like it that way — dance and travel are genuinely my biggest passions outside of work, and teaching K-pop lets me stay close to both movement and people while doing something completely different from my day job.
This blog is where I want to talk honestly about what dance actually does for kids — physically, mentally, emotionally — drawing on everything I’ve picked up since 2022 and what I keep learning from the kids I teach now. If you’re a parent wondering whether dance class is “worth it,” or just curious what’s really happening behind the fun choreography, I think you’ll find something useful here.
What’s Coming Next
Next up, I’m splitting this into two parts:
- The physical side — what’s actually happening in a growing body during a dance class.
- The mental and emotional side — the confidence and focus that tend to show up far beyond the dance floor.
Thanks for being here at the start. Let’s get into it.