{ FOR THE
OF DANCE }
OF
Susan and Mark O'Brien
Teaching The Art and Soul of Dance
STORY BY RICA KEENUM
PHOTOS BY NICHOLAS CONZONE
Our job isn't to make you
do what we do; it's to help you
become dancers yourself. And
that's what makes people the
happiest.
- Susan O'Brien
When Susan and Mark O'Brien
joined hands for their very first
dance, they stepped into a future
together, led by the
cadence
of
music and movement. No stranger
to the stage, Susan was a skilled and
professionally trained dancer who'd
traveled with a theater company. But
Mark was a social dancer, simply out for
some fun.
"" I've been dancing since I was 3, "
Susan said. " My brother took me to Nutcracker,
and that was it. "
Susan's parents enrolled her in dance
lessons, but that was just the beginning.
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APRIL 2022
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