A Step Ahead - Educational Dance and Exercise
Mission Statement:
Mission Statement:
Mission Statement: Our goal is to bring the joy of dancing to everyone whether they feel they can dance or not!! Dancing promotes social, physical, intellectual and emotional health and creates fun exercise and activity.
P.O. Box 13634, Mill Creek, Washington 98082 - (425) 319-8627
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Educational Dance and Exercise Programs
for schools and communities
to improve health and increase happiness!
to improve health and increase happiness!
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The in-school curriculum and exercise classes created by a certified school teacher, dance teacher and fitness instructor!
* Elementary school units:
- Dancing Through the Decades
- Creative Movement to Music
- Social Dancing & Etiquette
- World Cultures Through Dance
- Special Education Music FUN!
* Secondary School and Adult Units:
- Cool Swing Dancing
- Elegant Waltz
- Sassy Samba
- Workout with Cha cha
- Popular Line Dance!
* Assemblies
- featuring the YMCA Silver Steppers
- Interactive Program Units
- Dancing Through the Decades
- World Cultures Through Dance
* School and Family Dance Parties
* Dance Pulse@ exercise aerobics class for 10 yr or older focusing on strength, stretch, focus and cardio dancing for FUN, health and happiness!
DVD and online programs coming soon!!
Pam Shinsato - Founder/Instructor
* Dancer * Choreographer * certified school teacher * dance Director * mother * past PTA president * aerobics instructor * wife * singer * musician * member WAHPERD
History of A Step Ahead in Pam 's words:
I could never stop dancing! From the Aloha State of Hawaii and since the age of 9, I have danced in school, community and professional venues. Dancing led me to teaching dance, choreographing, producing/directing productions and opening my own dance studio in various states across America and abroad. I always felt that dancing in any form was a great way to get spiritually, mentally, socially AND physically healthy while learning life lessons.
So, my preparation for A Step Ahead started a LONG time ago but the company as a business started like this: I had earned my teaching certificate in elementary and special education and was guest teaching in school districts in Washington. A music teacher, after observing me substitute in her classroom teaching a unique lesson, invited me to start a program that utilized my teacher and dance knowledge It didn't take long for the ideas of A Step Ahead's program to come to me. I feel as if it was waiting to happen and I just had to open up the "box of possibilities".
Then I founded Dance Pulse which is created for men and women like me to get a workout that is fun and creates the dancer body that we long to maintain, keep, or get back!! It incorporates the benefits of all the movement styles that have benefited me; yoga, pilates, jazz, ballet, hip hop, etc. See the Dance Pulse page for the description and all the many benefits!!
These possibilities that dance can give to the dancer and non-dancer alike are my gift to you. Dance can be a whole new world of expression and healthy living! My goal is to help all understand that dance belongs in everyone's body! I hope you will find your dancing experiences as rewarding as I have found it to be in my life!!
