Studio dances into 10th year

RANDOLPH - Ten years ago, Chelsea Kuchta clutched her business degree in one hand and set off to find a job in banking.

“I literally put out my resume everywhere and they were just ‘We’re not hiring,’” she said.

Her daughter, Lilly, was attending dance classes in Norfolk and it was possibly on one of those drives the idea of opening her own dance studio started to form.

“There were really no opportunities for girls here (Randolph) and I wanted to be able to provide that opportunity instead of their parents having to drive 30-plus miles,” Kuchta said.

The more she thought it through, the more it seemed like a good fit.

Kuchta’s been involved in dancing or cheerleading from the time she was a little girl doing pirouettes at Paulyn’s Dance Studio in Norfolk into college cheering for the Wayne State Wildcats.

“The way you get to express yourself when the music comes on, it’s a way to relieve different emotions,” Kuchta said of her love for dance.

She crunched the numbers with her husband, Josh, who told her she needed at least 20 dancers to sign up to make owning a dance studio feasible.

Kuchta was nervous during her very first registration but hit her 20-dancer goal within the first half hour and Studio 103 was born.

“It just took off and it went better than I............  Read the entire story in the Randolph Times E Edition.

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