{"id":650,"date":"2022-05-03T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/?page_id=650"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:32:12","slug":"lauren-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/index.php\/lauren-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-5-color has-ast-global-color-5-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-pale-pink-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:50px\"><strong>Miss Emma<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miss Emma is an SDA alumni, originally from Acton Massachusetts! She is currently living in North Reading Massachusetts completing her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Merrimack College.\u00a0 Miss Emma graduated from Sacred Heart University in May of 2024 with a major in psychology and a minor in dance.\u00a0 She began her dancing journey at age 13 at Spotlight!\u00a0 She quickly became a competitive Diamond Dancer and began her training in ballet, jazz, acro, musical theatre, lyrical, contemporary, tap and hip hop. In her time as a competition dancer, Emma received titles and<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10434\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/index.php\/lauren-bio\/img_5866\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5866.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"828,1217\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_5866\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5866-204x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5866-697x1024.jpeg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10434 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5866-204x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5866-204x300.jpeg 204w, https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5866-697x1024.jpeg 697w, https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5866-768x1129.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sdawestford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5866.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/> scholarships at both national and regional levels, while also assisting and taking part in many conventions.\u00a0 During her undergrad at Sacred Heart, she was a member of their professional dance company, where she attended the World Dance Movement competition and workshop in Bari Italy. Miss Emma has also trained at the Boston Conservatory of Berklee, and has assisted alongside, and worked with many different well-known choreographers.\u00a0 She also has experience with gymnastics, modeling, and acting.\u00a0 On top of the styles listed above, Miss Emma has also trained in Pom, African Dance, and Ballroom.\u00a0 In addition to teaching at SDA, Miss Emma also teaches at Connecticut Dance Academy from time to time throughout the year!\u00a0 She is still actively dancing and hopes to sign with an agency and work professionally upon completing her masters degree.\u00a0 Outside of Dance, Miss Emma works as a counseling intern at a women&#8217;s mental health recovery center.\u00a0 She is a huge animal lover, who loves spending time with friends, being at the beach, and going to Cape Cod with her family!\u00a0 Miss Emma is so excited to be back at Spotlight (her forever home and second family) but this time as an instructor!\u00a0 She loves watching all of her students learn and grow!\u00a0 She emphasizes creating a classroom environment that blends a deep passion and love for dance with a strong foundation of hard work, technique, performance quality, and teamwork\u2014all while ensuring the experience is enjoyable, and of course full of fun!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Emma Miss Emma is an SDA alumni, originally from Acton Massachusetts! 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