Just a quick post on the fly to show you the videos we had taken at the competition on Saturday! It was a great day of fun dancing and I’m planning to write a better recap later in the week. Stay tuned!
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EPCTDL and EPCPL
Royal Palm Dancesport Winter Frolic is just days away and it’s time for Exhaustive Pre-Comp To-Do List and Exhaustive Pre-Comp Packing List. Having done this a fair few times we almost don’t need lists anymore, yet we do still manage to arrive at a comp and realize we’ve forgotten something! So here goes:
To do:
- Buy tights & eyelashes
- Do nails
- Pack my stuff
- Pack Daniel’s stuff
- Polish Daniel’s shoes
Print heat listsGet hotel reservation- Confirm pet-sitter
To pack:
- 2 dresses, 2 shoes, 2 tights
- Practice clothes (this is what I always forget!)
- Dress & shoes for Friday night social
- Snacks
- Makeup & jewelry
- Shirts, vest, tie, pants, socks for Daniel
- Friday night clothes for D.
- USA Dance jackets
- Tylenol, Advil, KT Tape, & Band-Aids
This is going to be interesting as I’ll be at work till about 6 p.m. Thursday and we will leave no later than 7 a.m. Friday. Wish us luck for the prep as well as for the competition–and stay tuned for updates! Our Twitter is usually pretty quiet but I try to live-tweet a bit from comps, so it’s a good time to follow @DLDancers!
Hello dancers! Just updated the Dance Events page with the dates for our casual/practice dance in 2016.
AND we are counting the days to our next competition: the Royal Palm Dancesport Winter Frolic in Florida. We had so much fun at this comp last year and we are excited to dance there again!
Finally, we are scheduling our 2016 group classes and will put out an email soon with dates and times for January.
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Carolina Fall Classic videos!
Here we go, sports fans: a little footage of Daniel & Laura in action on the dance floor at the Carolina Fall Classic:
Bronze waltz:
Bronze foxtrot:
Bronze rhythm (cha-cha & rumba):
Major thanks to our friends & dance role models John & Penny DeFino for taking these videos for us.
Oh MAN, October is flying by. It’s already been 2 weeks since we got back from the Carolina Fall Classic (I’m about to update our Competitive Highlights page; stand by) and a week since I got to take a workshop and private lesson with a new instructor for us, James. Can’t wait to work with him again tomorrow. We’re also rehearsing with Denise Froemeke for the Kay Center’s Dancing for the Stars event in November. She and Daniel have come up with a really cute routine and I have the perfect dress for her to wear! Oh–AND–we are teaching for Mercer University’s ballroom club this coming Monday as well. Busy Busy Dancers and we love it!
Okay–going to post this update now and get some other photos, videos, and posts up later today and tomorrow. Stay tuned and check back soon. Thanks!
The schedule for next weekend’s Carolina Fall Classic was posted last night and I have printed out our heat lists. SO EXCITED. It’s the first time in a few years that we’ve been able to attend this competition. It has gone from fairly humble beginnings to a record number of entries this year largely through the good offices of the organizers, Wayne and Marie Crowder (who also founded the awesome Triangle Open where we got to dance several years ago–college students now run that comp themselves, which gladdens this dancing professor’s heart!). We are going to be dancing a lot next weekend, especially if we make it into some semi-finals and finals. Cross your fingers for us and watch @dldancers on Twitter for updates. Special thanks to USA Dance Greater Macon Chapter 6059 for their generous support of our entries and hotel for this competition.
We’ve also been practicing with the lovely Denise Froemke for the Kay Community Service Center’s “Dancing for the Stars” event in Fort Valley on November 15. Daniel will be Denise’s partner for this event and they are getting ready to dance a cha-cha that you will not want to miss! Lots of the performers are contemporary/urban style ballroom dancers–if you don’t know this style of dance, it is definitely worth checking out. You could be seeing the next evolution of ballroom!
Finally, we are hosting our 4th Friday dance tonight and expecting a great turnout. Daniel has been scoping out new music again. Have you ever danced a cha-cha to a song in Turkish? Tonight, you will get your chance. Join us at the Howard Community Club at 8 p.m. for just $5 per person.
See you on the dance floor!
We’re back from the Royal Palm Dancesport “Winter Frolic” competition as of yesterday evening. It was a great return to the world of competitive dance after an absence that was much too long! From the beginning we decided that we just wanted to have fun and get back into competition without putting too much pressure about ourselves about results. We totally succeeded at that goal and we got some good placements to boot.
Days in the ballroom are fast-paced and exciting but long: the American Rhythm heats started at 9:30 in the morning and the last of the American Smooth heats didn’t end till 6:30 p.m., with the International events in the middle. We danced in bronze and silver level in Smooth and Rhythm in both the Senior 1 and Senior 2 age categories, plus in a “Challenge” event in both Smooth and Rhythm that was open to all ages and levels. The Challenge events were the only ones where we weren’t competitive, but that was not too surprising since we were dancing syllabus material alongside open-level dancers. I think we still did well being out on a crowded floor; the Challenge quarterfinals had 10-12 couples on the floor at the same time. Daniel did great with the floorcraft.
We ended up with 2 third places, 3 second places, and 3 first places, including–to our surprise–a $50 scholarship heat! We also met some nice new people and got reacquainted with some competitors we had met before. It was a fantastic experience and we are so happy and proud to be back in competition at last. The walk out on to the floor for the first heat always whets the appetite for more. Now we’re just asking ourselves: when can we do it again?
Until then, who would like to see some pictures?
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We’re official
We are so excited to be getting back into competition after (*coughmumble*) years of not competing. It’s almost time to resurrect EPCTDL (Exhaustive Pre-Competition To-Do List) and its little buddy, EPCPL (Exhaustive Pre-Competition Packing List).
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2015! Winter Frolic! Let’s do this!
Look where we’re going at the end of this month!
This will be our first competition in . . . well, let’s just say it’s been a while. We are very excited to get back in the game and have a fun little weekend in Florida.
Stay tuned for updates!
The first Dancing Stars of Central Georgia was a huge success for the DLDancers team! We didn’t bring home all the trophies but Team Dashley crushed their fundraising goal and thereby won the People’s Choice award–Ashley raised over $100,000 all by herself, making a huge contribution to the overall total of $205,962! Everybody was amazed when that final number came up on the screens last night. The total is incredible in itself, but even more so considering that this is the first time Alzheimer’s Association of Georgia has done a Dancing Stars event in this region. We are the first in the state to sell out the inaugural event and to exceed our fundraising goal the first year. Now my only thought is “How are we going to top it next year?”