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[[File:FayGleesonDance.jpg|thumb|Fay Gleeson Dance Centre exterior, circa 2019, 222 Leith Street]] | [[File:FayGleesonDance.jpg|thumb|Fay Gleeson Dance Centre exterior, circa 2019, 222 Leith Street]] | ||
The Fay Gleeson Dance Centre is a dance studio active since 1959 in | The Fay Gleeson Dance Centre is a dance studio active since 1959 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. As of 2020 it's at 222 Leith Street, Thunder Bay. | ||
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Rhodella met [[Gary Gleeson]], the leader of the "Five Gleesons" acrobatic troupe in the 1950s, fell in love, married him, and moved to Toronto so he could become a chiropractor. She left her dance studio to his sister and fellow acrobat, Fay. | Rhodella met [[Gary Gleeson]], the leader of the "Five Gleesons" acrobatic troupe in the 1950s, fell in love, married him, and moved to Toronto so he could become a chiropractor. She left her dance studio to his sister and fellow acrobat, Fay. | ||
[[File:FayGleesonLogo. | [[File:FayGleesonLogo.png|thumb|Fay Gleeson Dance Centre logo, circa 2020]] | ||
Fay has been a Zumba instructor since June 2009 [https://www.zumba.com/en-US/profile/fay-steadwell/38265] | Fay has been a Zumba instructor since June 2009 [https://www.zumba.com/en-US/profile/fay-steadwell/38265] | ||
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Superior Theatre Festival. Sponsored in part by Fay Gleeson dance | Superior Theatre Festival. Sponsored in part by Fay Gleeson dance | ||
https://www.superiortheatrefestival.com/ | https://www.superiortheatrefestival.com/ | ||
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|text=I topped my dance tour off by chatting with Cindy Kennedy who is at the Fay Gleeson Dance Centre. Cindy’s mom [Rhodella Achtenberg] was Fay’s teacher [and sister-in-law] and with these family role models, dance was a logical path for Cindy. [Fay is Cindy's aunt] | |||
|author=Karen Christie's September 2016 Bayview Magazine article [http://www.bayviewmagazine.com/article/2016/09/dancing-bay] | |||
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FAY GLEESON DANCE CENTRE "THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT" | |||
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 7:00pm | |||
Venue: Community Auditorium | |||
Join the Fay Gleeson Dance Centre for their 57th Annual Recital - "That's Entertainment" Live on stage at your Thunder Bay Community Auditorium! | |||
==Gleeson Family Tree== | |||
[[File:FayGleesonFamilyTree.jpg|thumbnail|Fay Gleeson family tree, selected individuals]] | |||
==Fay and Rhodella== | ==Fay and Rhodella== | ||
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# Rhodella moved back to Fort William in the 1970s and married a Larry Zweep. She died in 2017. | # Rhodella moved back to Fort William in the 1970s and married a Larry Zweep. She died in 2017. | ||
# Fay continues to run the [[Fay Gleeson Dance Centre]] as of 2020. She is supported her niece, Rhodella's daughter [[Cindy Kennedy]]. | # Fay continues to run the [[Fay Gleeson Dance Centre]] as of 2020. She is supported her niece, Rhodella's daughter [[Cindy Kennedy]]. | ||
==Sources== | |||
http://www.faygleesondance.com/ | |||
Gleeson and Achtenberg family obituaries | |||
Revision as of 09:11, 15 March 2020
The Fay Gleeson Dance Centre is a dance studio active since 1959 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. As of 2020 it's at 222 Leith Street, Thunder Bay.
Name
The name "Fay Gleeson" is an apt and highly memorable name, worthy of a Hollywood actress. It's the perfect name for a dance studio: it has a lightness, a feel of dancing, and the word "Glee" embedded right in the name.
If they had kept the name of the founder, it would have been called "Rhodella Achtenberg Dance Studio", which definitely doesn't have the same sound.
But even the studio's eponym doesn't go by that name; she took her husband Rob Steadwell's family name, likely in the 1960s, and has been known as "Fay Steadwell" for over 50 years.
Rhodella met Gary Gleeson, the leader of the "Five Gleesons" acrobatic troupe in the 1950s, fell in love, married him, and moved to Toronto so he could become a chiropractor. She left her dance studio to his sister and fellow acrobat, Fay.
Fay has been a Zumba instructor since June 2009 [1]
(28 Feb 2018) Thunder Bay 8th Annual Arts & Heritage Award [2] performance of World Dance Collective
Superior Theatre Festival. Sponsored in part by Fay Gleeson dance https://www.superiortheatrefestival.com/
I topped my dance tour off by chatting with Cindy Kennedy who is at the Fay Gleeson Dance Centre. Cindy’s mom [Rhodella Achtenberg] was Fay’s teacher [and sister-in-law] and with these family role models, dance was a logical path for Cindy. [Fay is Cindy's aunt]
— Karen Christie's September 2016 Bayview Magazine article [3]
FAY GLEESON DANCE CENTRE "THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT" Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 7:00pm Venue: Community Auditorium Join the Fay Gleeson Dance Centre for their 57th Annual Recital - "That's Entertainment" Live on stage at your Thunder Bay Community Auditorium!
Gleeson Family Tree
Fay and Rhodella
The connection between Fay Steadwell and Rhodella Zweep:
- Rhodella Achtenberg was a student at Sylvia Horn's dance school in Fort William in the 1940s
- Rhodella opened her own dance school in Fort William in the 1950s
- Rhodella married Dr. Gary Gleeson and moved to Toronto. In 1958, at age 22, she left her Fort William dance studio to her husband Gary's 15-year-old sister, Fay Gleeson.
- Fay married a man called Rob Steadwell in the 1960s, ruining her beautiful last name, but luckily she didn't change the name of the studio.
- Rhodella moved back to Fort William in the 1970s and married a Larry Zweep. She died in 2017.
- Fay continues to run the Fay Gleeson Dance Centre as of 2020. She is supported her niece, Rhodella's daughter Cindy Kennedy.
Sources
http://www.faygleesondance.com/
Gleeson and Achtenberg family obituaries