As you often hear about a busy person, “there’s no grass growing under her feet,” and that is certainly the case for Christine Waterhouse from Benton Harbor’s Fusion Center for Dance. First of all, she’s too busy dancing and teaching dancers for the grass to grow, but she’s also expanding the business that she co-owns with Jenny Loy into the Paw Paw Lake neighborhood this summer.
Waterhouse and Loy tell me that Fusion Center for Dance will be opening a second location for the 2019/20 school year in Coloma. The new location will be established at 6777 Paw Paw Avenue, in the current location of the Patrice School of Dance. The center will add to their repertoire which includes home base at 2162 Plaza Drive in Benton Harbor, behind the Fairplain Plaza.
Waterhouse says of the expansion, “We are so excited to continue the tradition of dance in Coloma this next school year. With Miss Pat (at the Patrice School of Dance) retiring after this season, we though this was a perfect opportunity to continue her passion and serve the students of the Coloma, Watervliet and Hartford areas.”
As with their Benton Harbor location, Fusion will offer classes in tap, jazz, ballet, acro and hip hop at several levels, as well as their introductory Princess Ballet/Tap combination class for children ages 3-5 in Coloma.
Co-owner Jenny Loy says, “I am thrilled that we can offer the combination of classes to more students than ever next year. We have recently expanded our staff to include two new teachers who will teach at both locations.”
An open house is scheduled for August 27th from 4-until-8 pm in Coloma.
Additional details will be available soon on the Fusion web site at www.FusionCenterForDance.com.
Fusion Center for Dance has built a highly credible reputation on multiple levels including with their Fusion Competitive teams which advance the child’s dance training to the next level. Dancers in that program are continually challenged and motivated for potential commercial success.
The Fusion Dance Teams aspire to find dancers that are hard workers, dedicated and have a passion for their dancing. The competitive program operates separately from the recreational program. Those dancers have much more of a time commitment than that of a recreational dancer, with dancers attending area conventions and learning from guest artists.
As Christine & Jenny say, “At Fusion Center for Dance we believe in training the whole dancer inside and out. From work ethic to community service, to mentoring, to responsibility, to loving one another.”
