Meet us on the dance floor: Getting to know Jordan Elrod
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Jordan Elrod has been dancing since a young age, instructing for the past 20 years, and was the director at St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church in Boca Raton, Florida for ten of those years. He has taught and participated in many workshops across the United States and Greece, as well as organized workshops in South Florida including The Winter Dance Conference in 2005. He served on the board for the Metropolis of Atlanta’s HDF where he has also been a judge for the past 3 years. He has performed with, and played music for multiple award winning groups at the Metropolis of Atlanta’s HDF, the Metropolis of San Francisco’s FDF, and “America’s Greek Dance Competition” as well as MHDF out of Chicago, where he also served on the board. He studied in Rhodes, Greece at the Aegean University and still travels to Greece every year with his wife and family whose roots are in the Serres region. Episode music: Endasi, Live, Miami 2020
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