Grace Inglis
Grace's love affair with dancing began at the age of five, when she started taking lessons from her aunt, Grace Macdonald. As a teacher, "big" Grace made dancing not only challenging, but fun, and "little" Grace continued learning all types of dance well into her teens, particularly enjoying her tap and comedy routines. She participated in recitals, concerts, doing entertaining at hospitals and for some of the armed forces, and did three Theatre Under the Stars performances.After graduation from the Vancouver School of Art, then working as staff artist at UBC, and raising four boys, she felt something was missing from her life. It was tap! Finding a teacher she would enjoy as much as her Aunt Grace would be a difficult chore, but in her late 60s, and prodded by her sister, she joined Jan Kainer's dance group. She found Jan to be a remarkable and innovative instructor, and after getting her own body and brain in gear again, Grace felt she had come home!