"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people," said Alvin Ailey, the visionary American dancer and choreographer. And yes MFers, we used a quote as the hook because it captures the philosophy we gleaned from Kay Olges, board president of Windfall Dancers, Inc. Kay took us from her early years pursuing a career as a ballerina in North Carolina to her many decades in Bloomington as a speech-language pathologist, mother, and lifelong dancer. We are also joined by our West Coast correspondent and former guest, Asher Waite-Jones, and Virginia Hojas, Josh's way-better half.

Thank you to our sponsors, Gretchen and Ruth Nall and Bloomington Rentals and Realty for their support of the pod.

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