Kind keeps kicking up more business
VOORHEESVILLE — Katie Kind can’t keep a lease; this is her dance studio’s third move in five years. She has an enviable problem: She’s so successful that she keeps outgrowing the space.
This past Saturday, March 17, while many residents across the Capital Region were teaching themselves to jig, the students at Kind Performing Arts were learning from professionals in a brand-new, just-opened dance studio on Drywall Lane in Voorheesville.
The new studio is double the size of the previous one, Kind said.
“It’s nice because it provides parents with more of an accommodating waiting area; and the kids get a proper dance floor, new ballet bars, new mirrors — it’s a fully-renovated, fully-equipped studio that we were able to put in,” Kind said.
This is Kind’s fifth year in business. She started in a small space in Stonewell Plaza, which she quickly outgrew after only a year. She moved then to a larger space in the plaza, and again outgrew that space. Before opening her studio, Kind worked as a traveling dance instructor; it was through that work that she was able to build a following.
Kind said that the move will allow her to offer classes to adults as well as classes with a wider variety of dance styles. The current offerings include ballet, tap, and jazz. In the new space, Kind said, she will also offer a preschool music program. Recently, she began offering yoga classes. “We’ll be able to branch out with our yoga program in the new space,” she said.
“We’re a little bit different that your typical dance studio,” Kind said, “in that we have a very creative approach to the way that we teach.”