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Dancing Queens: An Interview with Colette Marotto
Leads and follows, please welcome to the blog: Colette Marotto! She is a mother, a businesswoman and an Open-level pro-am competitive ballroom dancer. Though you may better recognize her from her recent role on the show Dancing Queens.
As I wrapped up my series on Dancing Queens, I sat down with Colette to talk about the impacts that dance has had on our lives and vice versa, as well as her experiences on the show. Let’s jump in!
Catch a Tiger by the Toe
Colette described her decision to try ballroom dancing as “eeny, meeny, miney, moe.” She was looking for something to do to get her out of the house. She had been a competitive runner in the past, but her body had informed her that her running days were over. She also enjoyed wakeboarding but because of the time and the number of people required, it wasn’t something she could feasibly do regularly. So she walked into a ballroom studio!
“I didn’t know at the time that it was gonna suck me in.”
Colette started off with social group classes but quickly transitioned to a competitive format, despite her initial declaration “I am not competing.” Four months after that declaration, she was on the competitive dancefloor in full costume, hair and makeup.
