How a Mom Turned Dance Into a Lasting Legacy
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My body had changed after having babies and I wasn't sure what I was capable of anymore. My body remembered how to move. I wasn't quite as flexible or strong as I'd once been, but it was coming back to me. And then just that, that joy of movement, that feeling of freedom through dance, it started to change things. And then the more my
Jamie Adams is a performing arts educator, entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Gotta Dance Performing Arts Studio. She is dedicated to making the arts accessible to every child by fostering creativity, confidence, and belonging through dance.
We started with just thinking we'd teach a few little classes, but as we got going, people kept asking for more and more. And now we have a huge, beautiful building. When we took it out of the basement, we'd reached 300 kids.
You teach people that are, you know, wow, I see something in you. I need to prepare you for, you know, to go to this school or for competitions.
We don't actually do competitions. I wanted to keep it an environment that doesn't lend to that competitive, that comparing.
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Hello, so I'm Jay Slangen. I'll be your host today for the Living Your Legacy podcast. And I'm here with, please introduce yourself and what do you do?
Oh, my name is Jamie Adams and I'm the owner of Gotta Dance Performing Arts Studio in Eagle Mountain, Utah.
All right. So I got to give you some background info. I'm not a great dancer. I'm more of the kind of dancer that you see spinning at like a Phish concert or, you know, lots of concerts. And I'm dancing a lot. But when it comes to like actual dancing and rhythm, I don't have it. I can't relate that concert dancing to a dance number or anything like that. If someone wanted to do a TikTok reel with me, I'd be like, I am not your guy. You know, I got two left feet when it comes to that. So do you get a lot of that experience? You know, like what am I supposed to do to take my dance experience into, I guess, the dance floor with no concert?
Yeah, we'll take you from wherever you start and help you get to wherever you hope to be with your dance career.
Now, where are you from?
I grew up in Highland, Utah. But right now we live in Eagle Mountain, Utah, which is just across the valley.
Okay. Just across the valley from... From Highland. From Highland. Oh, okay.
Which is south of Salt Lake.
South of Salt Lake. Okay. Now I'm getting kind of my orientation going. Yes. And so... Give us some background. How did you get into dance? Was it something that you were born a dancer? Was it a movie in the 80s? I know we had a lot of dance movies going on. Tell us a little bit about your background and how did you get into dance?
I liked dancing as a little kid, but I officially started taking dance classes when a friend invited me to start taking classes with her in about fourth grade. A lot of the little neighbor girls were doing dance classes back then, and that's when I really found that I couldn't stay away from it. I loved it.
Yeah, I remember the first time when I was about that age that I went into gymnastics. And it's just so fun to enter that first kind of like you're jumping around. And I'm sure it's very similar because dancing and jumping and all that stuff, it makes such an impact. Now I didn't open up a gymnastics studio, right? But I did love jumping around and being in that setting. And I'm sure it kind of felt the same way when you're a little girl in that dance studio.
Yes, I just love to move. It felt good. It's good for you. So yeah, fun times.
And so how long did you do that? You're with your friends. Did you continue to dance during your younger years? Or did you drop it like me and go into something else?
I did continue it through all of elementary, middle school, high school, and into college.
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