68 GoodLifeFamilyMag.com SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2017 AMAZINGLY GRACEFUL KATHY CHAMBERLAIN CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF TEACHING By AliciaWanek In 1977 a gallon of gas cost 65 cents, the first Apple II comput- ers went on sale, and Kathy Chamberlain opened a ballet stu- dio that has since helped thousands upon thousands of dancers “whose dreams are based, like hers, on a love for the art and beau- ty of dance.” Kathy remembers vividly at age 4 watching dancers from the New York City Ballet perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. She told her parents that night that she wanted to do ballet, too. Little did she know that one day she would be a protégé of the School of Amer- ican Ballet, an official school for the New York City Ballet, where she had received a Ford Foundation scholarship. She ultimately declined an offer to become a “winter student” at the age of 16, not wanting to leave her family to move to the big city alone. A high school counselor helped her to discover her passion for teaching dance. It was the ideal combination of her two loves—children and ballet. She began teaching at the same Kathy Chamberlain teaching pointe to level C students, winter 2016