Last week, the Stratford Press spoke to Simon Forsyth and Nerida Cortese about the upcoming workshop in Hawera, Dance Like a Star, organised by Simon and Maria Cashmore of The Modern Jivers.
This week we speak to Maria along with Kingsley Gainsford, president of the New Zealand Dance and Dancesport Council.
Kingsley says he started dancing at the age of eight, after watching his elder siblings enjoy dance classes, and has never looked back since.
Teaching others to dance, he says, is always a pleasure, especially when "you see them smiling because they have mastered a step".
Maria agrees, "the moments when you see dancers you are teaching having fun and looking good on the dance floor, they are the times teaching dance feels fantastic".