At the age of 12, in the 50's, Helaine was an apprentice at the largest dance school in Atlanta, Georgia, Jack Eppley Dancing School. She worked her way up to the Head Assistant to Mr. Eppley who was a past Vaudevillian who worked with George Burns, Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante and other celebrities of that show business era. She is a “trained to teach” dance teacher.
Helaine taught her entire teen years every day after school and all day on Saturdays tap, ballet and modern jazz. She then opened Helaine’s Dance School. As life took her in another direction she did not teach for many years and then sometime after retirement realized how much she missed dance. She started line dancing, choreographing and quickly began to be asked to teach. Before the pandemic she was teaching as many as nine weekly classes. She currently teaches at Sunrise Lakes Phase IV in Susnrise, FL and the Tamarac Community Center in Tamarac, FL, and also in Planatation, FL (a total of five classes a week).
Helaine Norman has choreographed 268 dances, of which 7 have been co-choreographed. Their first published stepsheet on CopperKnob is Dancing Queen from May 2014, with their most recent stepsheet of Hell Bound in October 2024.
