Pamela began dancing later in life, at the age of 21, when she realized dance was a joy she had to pursue.

“You get to places in your life when you realize you have to make decisions, like ‘What would I like to do?’ There are days when you are very wise and days when you’re stupid, and on one of my wise days I said to myself, ‘You have always loved that concept of dancing - so dance!’”

Pamela took beginning-level dance classes with 10-year-old children to make up for lost time. When asked if she felt embarrassed to be amongst students half her age, Pamela was quick to reply, “You love it enough not to mind being stupid.”

Dancing for Pamela became much more than a pastime or a way to burn some calories, it changed her forever.

“Dancing put me back together again. It gave me rules, structure, and gave me discipline. How has it put me back together again? It pulled together my body with my heart. When you move and tell a story you pull everything you are together with your body as a unit - that healed me. It changed my life and, because it changed my life, I felt compelled to stay with it.”