{"id":4251,"date":"2019-01-11T21:40:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2019-01-11T21:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:40:30","slug":"kicking-off-2019-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/kicking-off-2019-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking Off 2019 With a Bang!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2019\/01\/Save-the-Dates-1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2019\/01\/Save-the-Dates-1-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4254 alignright\" \/><\/a>Not only do we have some amazing coaches visiting us this month (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/new-year-new-guest-coaches-2\/\">more on that here<\/a>), we also have some exciting events coming up!<\/p>\n<p>We love any excuse for a good party, so <strong>we\u2019re celebrating National Popcorn Day at our practice party on January 18 at 7:30 p.m.!<\/strong> The official holiday is January 19. How many varieties of popcorn are there? Come to the party and find out! Enjoy some sweet and savory treats, along with social dancing and professional instruction as usual.<\/p>\n<p>We have a very special event coming up in February, and we just have to give you a heads up! <strong>Please save the date for Friday, February 15 as we celebrate our four year studio anniversary!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our studio anniversary technically falls exactly on Valentine\u2019s Day (Feb. 14). On that day back in 2015 we taught our <strong>first lesson in our then new location!<\/strong> Its always a big day for us at Fred Astaire Dance Studios, and our anniversary is also kind of special \u2026 to us and our students. <strong>So please mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The day after our studio anniversary is another big event; our <strong>Spring MINI-MATCH<\/strong>! This in-studio event that takes place <strong>Saturday, February 16 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m<\/strong>. and the theme this year is \u201cLove Is In The Air\u201d. Start your preparation early and you will reap all the benefits of this in home competition!<\/p>\n<p>Finishing up the month, we have our<strong> Annual Freddy Awards Ball and Competition at Lowes Portofino Bay, Orlando, FL on February 21-24!<\/strong> This is an electrifying event filled with music, dancing, and gorgeous dance outfits. The best of the best are all being honored (best studio, best instructors, best students, etc.). The event also includes an amazing <strong>Banquet Dinner-Dance and Professional Show<\/strong> that you don\u2019t want to miss! Join our competitive Team and our support Team. We need both. Talk to us about details!<\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendars for these exciting events and talk to us about how to you can participate in any or all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do we have some amazing coaches visiting us this month (more on that here), we also have some exciting events coming up! We love any excuse for a good party, so we\u2019re celebrating National Popcorn Day at our practice party on January 18 at 7:30 p.m.! The official holiday is January 19. How [&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":[22,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-info-news-trends","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","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=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bonita-springs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}