Alexandria, VA – Chris Collins confesses he never had any doubt as to what he wanted to do when he grew up: the same thing he was doing at the age of 6 when he dressed in a satin suit and tap shoes. Dance!

“My two brothers and I used to perform around the Washington area—my older brother playing the accordion, my younger brother singing. I was the dancer,” said the founder of the soon-to-be successful Chris Collins Dance Studio, with a still boyish and broad smile.

Fresh out of Alexandria City High School (then known as T.C. Williams High School), Collins studied dance at private dance studios and business at Northern Virginia Community College, and rented an empty room at the old Blessed Sacrament School’s location with the vision of a dancing Alexandria populace. The first small recita

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