{"id":3863,"date":"2018-08-03T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:00:37","slug":"sundance-classic-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/blog\/dance-competitions\/sundance-classic-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance Classic 2018!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2018\/08\/2018-SundanceClassic.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2018\/08\/2018-SundanceClassic-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3864 alignright\" \/><\/a>Your Fred Astaire Dance Studio of Bonita Springs could not be prouder of the <strong>dedicated students<\/strong> who will be taking part in the 2018 Sundance Competition.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong>inter-regional ballroom and Latin dance competitio<\/strong>n will be taking place from <strong>Aug. 23-26 at the Ritz Carlton Key Biscayne<\/strong>, 455 Grand Bay Drive, Key Biscayne, Fla.) It is quite a prestigious affair and we will be well-represented.<\/p>\n<p>Students who are going to complete are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jay Burke<\/strong>, with his instructor, Alexandra, on American Smooth and American Rhythm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kathy Burke<\/strong> (Jay\u2019s wife), with Yuriy and Pavlo, also in Smooth and Rhythm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Youngblood<\/strong> will compete with Alexandra, but only in Rhythm as he will also be dancing the Bronze Closed Rhythm Championships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All three students will be competing in Bronze level.<\/p>\n<p>For our competitors, Smooth dances are Foxtrot, Tango, Waltz and Viennese Waltz. Rhythm dances: Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing and Hustle.<\/p>\n<p>Championships means that a student with instructor dances (in this case) three dances, back-to-back: Cha Cha, Rumba and Swing. Placement is based on the total of three, as opposed to single dances when a student receives placement for each individual dance.<\/p>\n<p>Our dancers <strong>would love your support<\/strong> at this event. Friday morning and evening sessions, as well as Saturday morning\u2019s, are priced at $35-40. Tickets are available at the door.<\/p>\n<p>The banquet dinner and professional show should be reserved at the studio.<strong> It is quite elegant.<\/strong> That event on Saturday evening starts with <strong>cocktails, usually at 7:30 p.m., followed by sit-down dinner. There will be general dancing, studios awards and a professional show.<\/strong> It will end approximately at 11:30 pm. It is also black tie, long dress event.<\/p>\n<p>Talk to us at the studio about ticketing for this fabulous banquet!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s wishing Jay Burke, Kathy Burke and Mark Youngblood all the success in the world at the 2018 Sundance Classic<\/strong> Aug. 23-26 in Key Biscayne. Hope you can make it there to cheer them on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Fred Astaire Dance Studio of Bonita Springs could not be prouder of the dedicated students who will be taking part in the 2018 Sundance Competition. This inter-regional ballroom and Latin dance competition will be taking place from Aug. 23-26 at the Ritz Carlton Key Biscayne, 455 Grand Bay Drive, Key Biscayne, Fla.) It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-competitions","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}