Jane teaches Elementary Music in the Hilliard schools near Columbus, Ohio

A Dance Master (Mistress), Dance Instructor, or Dance Caller. Jane will set you at ease. Even if you are a beginner or an experienced dancer. A Music background and performer for many years. She began calling dances in 2003. In the pictures she called a dance at Annie Oakley Days in Greenville, Ohio in 2004.

     A quote from the Hillgrove's Ballroom Guide says "Dancing is, of all the fine arts, that which seems peculiarly devoted to cheerfulness and joy. It is the lively expression of these emotions by gestures and attitudes. It seems to have nothing but pleasure in view, yet, like music, its sweet accompaniment, it tends to refine the manners; and to give health, activity, and vigor, as well as graceful ease and elegance to the human frame."
     Thomas Hillgrove was asked by Congress in 1863 to write the "Official Dance Guide". A long time Teacher of Dance and Dance Master his work was finished and excepted by Congress that same year.