August 2002 - Dixie Viar Holt

Home: Denver, Colorado (USA)
Years Dancing: 10 years
Specialties: Tap

I first started tap dancing in junior high school, and my favorite dance shoes were Capezio patent leather tap shoes.

By the time I finished college, I was married and moved to Oklahoma. I wasn't dancing anymore, so I put my patent leather tap shoes in a box and lost track of them for a while.

Then, after 40 years of raising two children, going back to school, and partially retiring, I felt it was time to start doing some more "serious" exercising.

I found a tap class at a local cummunity center and thought of my Capezio patent leather tap shoes. I wasn't even sure if I still had them, so it took me a while to find the box that had been moved here and there throughout my life. I finally found the bright red shoe box that I remembered, and to my surprise, the shoes were in great shape and still fit!

Dancing again as I did in my earlier years is still just as enjoyable and I'm happy to be in my Capezios.

Here's to Fifty Years and Still Tapping!