Lindsey Rebecca Tellers loves to dance. Growing up in Minnesota, she took all the standard dance classes for little girls. However, after college, she found a new interest, ballroom. Ballroom dance encompasses styles from the waltz to the foxtrot to the cha-cha.

“It’s a style of dance that we can do as adults, and I didn’t know that’s what I had been looking for,” Tellers recalled. “I fell in love with it, madly and deeply.”

After watching others compete, she decided to pursue a professional career in dance. She knew that one day she wanted to become a mother and wouldn’t have time to be a professional dancer, a career that involves constant attention to the craft. But she felt that it was the perfect time, and she went on the professional circuit.

Courtesy photo – Lindsey dancing with her husband Luke.

“I moved to Nashville, which is sort of the mothership of ballroom champion studios,” she said.

Tellers and her partner attained success. She traveled the length and breadth of the country competing as a professional, obtaining a ballroom dress sponsor along the way. Tellers competed as well as the amateur students in her studio. Her life was ballroom dance.

This lifestyle lasted nearly a decade for Tellers, but it came to the point when she decided this chapter of her life was complete. She headed home to Minnesota.

In Minnesota, Tellers had a dance following, because she had built up a reputation as a dancer. She held regular dance classes for children and adults, and her students competed.

Tellers credits her mother’s move to Colorado as being the reason she and her husband Luke came here four years ago. She wanted to raise her children with grandma around. Lindsey and Luke now have three children under five, Langston James (LJ), London and Lathan.

When Tellers got wind of the opening of the Berthoud Activity Hall and saw pictures on their Facebook page, she knew it was the perfect place in which to hold dance classes, and she was ready to dive back in.

“The space screamed, please have ballroom dancing classes here!” said Tellers.

She recently completed teaching a Swing Dance class for five weeks at the Berthoud Activity Hall. The plan is to add more classes in the future, including Swing II for those who want to continue their learning.

There are many benefits of dance. Studies have shown that ballroom dance is good for the brain and the body. It is also a positive way to connect with your partner.

“I love that dance is a nonverbal language,” said Tellers. “To have that push and the pull, and that little bit of connectivity that’s completely non-verbal—it can really connect people. It’s two souls talking without speaking.”

The best way to connect with Tellers is through her Facebook page called Ballroom Dance with Lindsey Rebecca, call her directly at (612) 940-9546 or email [email protected].

Her classes are open to all adults who want to learn to dance. from couples who want to waltz at their wedding to retired couples looking to add a little spark to their relationship.

“It’s never too late to start ballroom dancing,” said Tellers. “Never.”