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Broken foot doesn’t stop dance instructor Bebe Berland |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
 DANCE INSTRUCTOR – Bebe Berland, in back, with dance student McKenna LaValley after performing the tap dance “Sweet Georgia Brown” during this year’s Academy of Dance spring recital at the Orpheum Theatre/Wiegand Auditorium. Photo courtesy of Colin Veitch
Even a broken foot couldn’t stop Conrad’s Bebe Berland from participating in this months dance teacher seminar held in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Shortly before she was due to leave for the seminar, a suspected sprain turned out to be a broken bone in her foot.
“It was vital to attend the seminar,” Berland said. She went on to add, “Even as an observer I could update on the latest trends and interface with other dance teachers.”
According to Berland, the seminar was a huge success and an added bonus was the presence of her husband, Colin Veitch, who accompanied her to the seminar as a teacher’s assistant. He even performed some of the latest dance steps with the otherwise all-girl classes.
About 50 dance teachers from several states attended the three-day seminar hosted by Los Angeles dance music producers Music Works.
“I’m totally prepared for this falls dance classes,” said Berland, “My foot is healed and I have new steps and routines that all students will thoroughly enjoy.”
An interesting sidebar to the trip was the discovery of how Kalamazoo got its name.
Kalamazoo is an American Indian word describing “bubbling or sparkling waters.”
Long before the earliest pioneer settlers arrived in Michigan, the area’s inhabitants had a legend of a mysterious warrior who kept supplying them with effervescent water from a secret spring. The location of the spring is still secret, but the name remains, intriguing all who visit Kalamazoo.
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