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Meet an “Amazing” With a Life-Giving Passion for Dance

Finis Jhung, 80, started dancing when he was 6 years old,

Finis Jhung, age 80, couldn’t stop dancing if he tried. Starting at 6 years old, Finis’s dedication to ballet has spanned his entire lifetime. Now a master teacher, who continues to develop new teaching techniques and

methods greatly appreciated by ballet teachers across the globe, Finis expresses his love of the art by teaching an ongoing adult beginner’s class as well as master teacher workshops.

In addition to his stellar career as a performer with the Joffrey Ballet, Harkness Ballet, on Broadway and in Hollywood musicals as well as at the White House, Finis trained the lead boys of Billy Elliot: The Musical from 2008 to 2011. In and through it all, Finis never stops smiling, such is his joy of dance.

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