Tap Shoes and Shrimp Boats

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Miss Vernell's School of Dance has taught every little girl in Darien, Georgia to shuffle-ball-change for fifty years, upstairs over the hardware store with a window onto the shrimp boats. Now Miss Vernell's hip is going, enrolment is down and you've come to help run the place for a year. Her granddaughter is home from a New York dance company with a bad knee and a worse attitude. The hip-hop teacher bartends at the oyster bar. The woman who runs the salon downstairs is the best tapper in Georgia. The preacher's daughter takes adult ballet in secret. And the adult salsa class has a shrimper, a deputy and a mechanic who lost a bet. Homecoming, a hurricane, a Christmas boat parade, the Blessing of the Fleet, the studio's fiftieth recital and the Fourth of July. Teach a class, sweat in the Georgia heat, eat shrimp and grits, and find out who in this town you want to dance with. A warm, funny Southern small-town slice of life with a big cast and a lot of rhythm.