Patch Portrait
Dance Studio Owner Teaches More Than Just Steps
Elizabeth McGuire has taught dance classes for more than two decades in Des Plaines.
This week's Patch Portraits also highlight two couples: one Wilmette couple closing their grocery's doors after 54 years, and one Evanston couple opening their home to adventure in Argentina. For Elizabeth McGuire, or "Miss Libby" as her students call her, dancing is about more than movement. "Dancing, any artform, can open up your innerself to expressions you never knew you might have," she said. Earlier: Check out all the Patch Portrait archives. In 1989, McGuire and her sister, Ellen Ecker, took over Galina Dance Studio in Des Plaines from Madame Galina, the original owner who had established the studio in 1961 with her husband after defecting from the Soviet Union. McGuire had been a student of Galina's for years and had taught for …
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Alice Bigelow
1:08 pm on Thursday, September 1, 2011
My daughter went there for about 4 years and she was shy. Now she is very open Galina Dance studio is a great please and I love the personal touches they have for the kids. Thanks to them more ›