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Dance Passion Leads To Business For Dobbs Ferry 23-Year-Old Dance Passion Leads To Business For Dobbs Ferry 23-Year-Old
Dance Passion Leads To Business For Dobbs Ferry 23-Year-Old Joshua Dooz grew up behind the scenes of his parents’ dance studio, Central Park Dance Academy in Scarsdale but never took a palpable interest in dancing deciding to play sports like wrestling and basketball instead.  But everything changed during a three-month study abroad trip to Zapote, a village in San Jose, Costa Rica, the summer before his senior year of college. That's when the Dobbs Ferry resident walked into his first dance class and and saw how the rhythmic motions of his instructor, Francy, woke up an energy in the room and in him. “She [Francy] must have been 70, but she moved …

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by James Miranda