Thank you so much for visiting our troupe!
We welcome you with open arms.

My name is Suzanne. I am a transplanted Yankee. I have been living in Florida since 1984 and have been dancing with Julianne for the last seven or so years (off and on). If you had come up to me 10 years ago and told me I would be a Middle Eastern dancer, I would've told you (after a wild fit of laughter) that you were loony. I am a very nervous sort of person and was definitely NOT any type of performer, or accustomed to opening myself up in such a way.

I grew up in Stoughton, Massachusetts the oldest of 4 children. I attended Weaton College in the nearby town of Norton where I graduated cum laude with a B. A. in Physics/Astronomy. The Navy then brought us to Jacksonville and I ended up staying here. I have been working as a Civil Servant since 1985 as an electronics mechanic on the depot-level repair of Naval aircraft avionics.

My friend Karen and I started taking Julianne's classes and, well, that's all she wrote. Since then dancing has helped me to build on a creative and expressive side of me that is "totally" eclipsed by my technical career and the hectic commitments of everyday survival. It has helped me to be more relaxed and content amidst other not-so-desirable things that we are sometimes tested with. I only wish my mother and sister could enjoy this with me. Dance is such a wonderfully camouflaged exercise (oooo, bad word!).

I am now living in a little house in Orange Park, Florida where I find joy and solace in the raising and friendship of my son, his accomplishments, the companionship of my six (yes, six!) cats (now there's a long story), my piano, reading the Bible and anything written by Stephen King, and dancing with Sahara Silk.

Send me an e-mail sometime and say "hello" and thanks again for visiting us.

God be with you.
 

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