CROWN POINT, INDIANA
CREATIVE | PASSIONATE | ADVENTUROUS | FUN
My Story:
My name is Ava Dzurovcik and I will soon be graduated from Crown Point High School. I will be attending the University of Louisville in the fall and I plan to be a member of the Ladybirds Dance Team if all goes well. These past four years have been absolutely crazy. Now that they are almost over, I sometimes wish that they weren’t. Many things have happened in this period of time that have really shaped me into who I am.
When I was about nine years old, my mother got into a huge car accident causing her to have many surgeries and leaving some parts of her body numb to this day. As a result of this, she could no longer work as a flight attendant which is what she loved! She knew she wanted to do something with her life that benefited our whole family. Later, in 2017, we started a whole new chapter of our lives and we opened a dance studio. Pretty crazy, I know. My mom knows how much I love to dance and she wanted to make a place that felt like home for me to dance all the time. My mom and stepdad are completely involved as my stepdad teaches and my mom runs all business aspects. I first started teaching at the studio when I was 15 without a clue of what I should be doing. I ended up shadowing teachers and becoming way more knowledgeable about dance technique and the correct ways to teach.
Fast forward to now, I teach about nine classes a week, along with choreographing 11 competition routines for our team. These past three years I have become a role model for all of the young kids I teach. I have grown to love these kids with all my heart and I feel almost like a big sister because of how close we all are. I love to teach and to choreograph and I am so thankful for my parents for creating this business and this space for me to do it. Although I am very young to be doing this, I work hard and it shows. My competition routines have placed first overall at many regional and national competitions over the past 2 years. It’s seriously the best feeling when you work so hard for something and it actually pays off. This is my passion and I hope to continue it as I get older and wiser in the dance world. Even when times are kind of tough or I’m at a roadblock, my Dad instills my faith and reminds me that God always has a plan for me. Dance is a huge part of who I am and I am so grateful that I get to share it with the people I love most everyday. I hope to make an impact by showing that you can accomplish many things you put your mind to, no matter how old or young you are. If you want it, you can really do it.
Favorite part of working with PAT+CASSIE:
My favorite part about working with Pat & Cassie is always getting ready for dances. It is the best place to start your dance days by getting your hair and makeup done (which always looks amazing) and then taking such fun pictures. It is such an exciting environment seeing all of the girls dresses and how beautiful everyone looks. My last dance my date and I even brought our dogs for pictures!
What advice would you give underclassmen?:
The best advice I can give is to always be happy for others successes, even if you wanted that success to be yours. A lot of times, we compete against our friends for the same thing and sometimes we might not always get the outcome we had hoped for. You can work so hard at something for someone else to get what you wanted. That is okay! Maybe it wasn’t meant for you. Keep trying, but don’t have hard feelings against people who have been rewarded. Your time will always come, and it will be great.
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