Jess Novotny, Prestige Dance Studio

Dance has been part of Jess Novotny’s life since childhood.

Growing up in Dyersville, she danced. In high school, she commuted to dance classes at an Iowa City studio. She was a dance major at the University of Iowa, and when she moved to Chicago with her husband Dan, she worked for a studio for about four years while helping to raise the couple’s first child.

But then came the…