As a child, her parents paid for dance lessons, but they were too expensive to continue.

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It doesn't belong to her parents, preschool teacher, dance teacher or soccer coach.

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Parents are unlikely to hit the dance floor for three hours while d.j.s from England play a mixture of dubstep and vintage drum bass.

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"My parents, their first date was the confirmation dance, " he notes with a laugh.

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Teacher Danyl also has huge support from the children and parents who know him from Mo's Dance and Drama School in Caversham.

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This is where you guys come in, again, putting down the cell phones and thinking of creative things that you care about, whether it's getting your parents to do the Electric Slide or doing Dance, Dance Revolution.

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Anne Marie's family paid for it and was in atten-dance (more on them eventually), but my parents were not, mostly because I didn't tell them about it.

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It was a fitting end to a career that began when 13-year-old Natalia, completely double-jointed and possessed of an incredible gift for musicality and movement, told her parents she did not want to be an engineer, thank you, she wanted to dance.

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Born to Indian parents and raised in Los Angeles, she moved to even more culturally diverse New York to share her dance workout, she says.

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Born in San Francisco to globe-trotting parents, he became a child actor in Hong Kong, where he learned kung fu and became a dance champion.

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