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Houston's Jazz Center: "The Met" is the go-to studio for serious training.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Houston's Jazz Center: "The Met" is the go-to studio for serious training.(TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION)(Houston Metropolitan Dance Center )

Article Excerpt
How does a studio become a desired dance destination in a sprawling city that technically has no center? With Houston families heading to the affordable suburbs to raise children, it has become a remarkable achievement to draw parents and teens back into the city limits. The Houston Metropolitan Dance Center with its lively yet serious approach to training is doing just that. In a city where every suburb is well-stocked with dance studios, "The Met" is keeping contemporary jazz dance alive and well in Houston proper.

Executive director Michelle Smith, known for her "can-do, the sky is the limit" Texas spunk, has a reputation as one of the perkiest people on the dance planet. She was a principal dancer with former director Delia Stewart's company and inherited the school when Stewart retired in 1995. Smith's go-for-it approach appears to be working, and her pep...

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