Always all in DO WHAT YOU LOVE LOVE WHAT YOU DO BY ISABELLE SOUTHCOTT | isabelle@prliving.ca
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aige Anderson made her dancing debut at the age of three. “She was a lamb,” recalls her mom Sandra Anderson. “She loved being on stage so much that when it was over, and the rest of the performers took their bows and ran off, Paige stayed on stage until someone came and took her off.” Paige began dancing in the basement of the United Church at two and a half. From the start, all young Paige wanted to do was dance, dance, dance. “She practiced at home in our living room,” said her mom. “The hearth was her stage.” “We had a big picture window,” said Paige. “It was like a mirror. I’d put on weekly shows for my family and I’d make my sisters perform. I’d choreograph things for them to do. My very favourite thing was to put on shows. I’d be the main character and the director!” Many little girls leave their passion for dance behind them. But today, Miss Paige, as her younger dancers call her, is still very much that same enthusiastic dance boss she was four decades ago in her parents’ living room – now as the owner of the Laszlo Tamasik Dance Academy at the Powell River Academy of Music.
Paige Anderson’s fun ‘n’ fierce work ethic pushed her into the spotlight as a child, and inspires her dance students today. POWELL RIVER LIVING • august 2019 •
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