Pat Zagers was born in Indiana and started dancing when she was 4 years old. Her dance history begins in indiana and then moves to Michigan where she had her own dance studio as a young adult. She has had dance instruction in Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Acrobatics, and Clogging.  She taught at dance studios in Michigan, and also taught dance to adults at the college level until moving to Florida in 1979.  She was very active in gymnastics as her daughters  competed in that sport, and she became a certified  gymnastics judge. Pat then returned to school and obtained a Bachelors Degree in Adult Education in the field of Exercise Physiology from the University of Sout Florida. "Back in the day" she is proud to have taken classes with with such great names as Buster Cooper and Al Gilbert and more recently has been instructed by well known Master teachers Avi Miller, and Ofer Ben, Dianne walker, Germaine Salsberg, and Jay Fagan. Pat loves children and believes that dance should be a combination of fun discilpline to make the best experience possible.