Dance Studio Welcomed by Acworth Business Community

An Acworth dance studio cut the ribbon Thursday on its new 7,000-square-foot facility, and the Acworth business community came out in force to support it.

Kari and Dwight Carter, owners of Impact Dance and Performing Arts Center, welcomed dozens of Acworth business owners to their new studio, located at 4246 S. Main St. near downtown Acworth, and treated them to a barbecue dinner and free dance entertainment by students and instructors.

Earlier in the day, Acworth Mayor Tommy Allegood led the ribbon-cutting and said that, in the next four to five years, the area around the new dance center will take on a different look.

“Our housing authority has a big redevelopment plan that includes taking down the public housing on this side and the other side of the railroad tracks,” said Allegood. “In its place will be affordable general residential housing.”

“This is what business associations are all about–supporting each other and networking together,” said Laura Ann Hart, a member of the board of the Acworth Business Association and owner of Quickie Coupons. The “Alive at Five” monthly ABA meeting gives business owners an opportunity to network and support new businesses opening in the area.

The ABA has about 200 members, said current president Vince Bubolo, who works with American Family Insurance and “Compliance Ain’t Tough,” a bank regulation compliance company.

“We hope you use us as a resource for your business,” Bubolo said to the Carters as he congratulated them on their new location. “We have a wonderful business community, we have the lake, and we have great city management that always keeps us in the black,” said Bubolo. “We are blessed to be in Acworth, Georgia right now.”

Impact Dance studio started in 1994 and was formerly housed in two other buildings on Highway 41 in Acworth. “Six months ago, this was an empty warehouse,” said Kari Carter of her new facility, crediting her husband with much of the construction. The center provides classes in ballet, tap, musical theater, jazz, hip-hop, ballroom, Zumba and Stretch, Pilates, and pointe.  The business is strong on talent–and on faith.

“We believe that, whatever God gives you as a talent, that you should use that talent to encourage others and glorify him,” said Carter in explaining the mission behind their studio.

Impact’s end-of-the-year dance recital will be Saturday, June 18 at the Murray Performing Arts Center on Stilesboro Road in Kennesaw.  Shows will be at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. For more information, call 770-974-8653 or visit www.impactdance.org.