Arts & Entertainment
As PAAM Grows and Grows, Its Bond With the Community Only Deepens
The Performing Arts Academy of Marin has moved into a 6,000-square-foot space in Strawberry, the next phase in its seven-year journey.
When longtime Mill Valley resident Annie Thistle moved back home from Boston in 2009 at the age of 25, she had a plan to open her own dance studio.
Just seven years later, her Performing Arts Academy of Marin (PAAM) has grown so much as to need a new 6,000-square-foot facility in Strawberry, with more than 400 students taking over 80 classes a week from a faculty of 13 instructors. Was all that part of the plan?
Yes, indeed.
