1 month ago
6
LEMOORE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - For a brace of lifelong dancing students, opening up a creation workplace is simply a imagination travel true, but opening 1 successful the metropolis of Lemoore has been each the much rewarding.
Savanna Mangum and Siena Simas met arsenic children, increasing up successful creation classes and yet teaching successful the aforesaid workplace wherever they grew up.
"We decided to marque our determination retired of that studio," Simas said. "We taught astatine my store astatine my house."
The 2 taught classes for escaped arsenic they began to marque a sanction for themselves.
"We called it Pop-Up Dance Sesh," Mangum said. "Things were going truly good."
Eventually, Mangum says she and Simas decided to unfastened up their ain workplace successful Lemoore, wherever the 2 of them travel from.
Mangum and Simas created their ain LLC, The Movement Factory, got insured arsenic a concern and signed a declaration with the Lemoore Recreations Center.
"Hanford has aggregate creation studios that are thriving and doing well," Mangum said. "The Movement Factory is the lone creation workplace that is successful Lemoore."
In 2024, The Movement Factory was voted the champion creation workplace successful Kings County by the Hanford Sentinel. Simas says having the accidental to empower young dancers makes each the time, hard enactment and wealth she and Mangum person invested successful The Movement Factory good worthy it.
"It's truly chill to ticker the kids travel successful and turn with us," Simas said. "We had our recital past year, and [one student] went connected signifier and she was terrified, past our past show successful December, she was capable to get up successful beforehand of the large audience."
The Movement Factory is located wrong the Lemoore Recreation Center astatine 721 W Cinnamon Drive. Mangum and Simas accidental they thatch a assortment of styles of creation to radical of each ages and anticipation to proceed to bash truthful astatine an affordable terms for the community.
"We're helping make a consciousness of assurance successful our dancers," Simas said. "We truly privation to supply assemblage and self-esteem gathering for our young dancers and the older ones."
