{"id":1409,"date":"2015-10-19T14:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2015-10-19T14:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:18:59","slug":"we-head-to-the-5th-annual-bentley-scottsdale-polo-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/we-head-to-the-5th-annual-bentley-scottsdale-polo-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"We Head to The 5th Annual Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2015\/10\/Scottsdale-Polo-Championships.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1410\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px 15px 0 0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2015\/10\/Scottsdale-Polo-Championships-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scottsdale Polo Championships\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2015\/10\/Scottsdale-Polo-Championships-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2015\/10\/Scottsdale-Polo-Championships-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2015\/10\/Scottsdale-Polo-Championships-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2015\/10\/Scottsdale-Polo-Championships-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2015\/10\/Scottsdale-Polo-Championships.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ballroom dancing leaves the ballroom for the polo field in a likely first-time-ever event at <strong>The 5th Annual Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships: Horses &amp; Horsepower on Saturday, Oct. 24, at WestWorld of Scottsdale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., professional dancers from Fred Astaire Dance Studios of Scottsdale will waltz, tango, foxtrot and swing on a real wood dance floor installed exclusively for this year\u2019s Polo Party, which is the world\u2019s largest polo event.<\/strong> The dancers will interact with the crowd and give how-to demonstrations and short lessons to those in attendance during the day-long event that includes (of course) polo matches, an art auction and a performance by the Phoenix Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to be performing at such an amazing event,\u201d says Antoinette Benevento, co-owner of Fred Astaire Dance Studios International and studio director of the Scottsdale location. \u201cThis may be the first time ballroom dancing has ever been performed field-side at a polo match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fred Astaire Dance Studios presence helps create an exceptional melding of talents, with the athleticism of the players, the power of the ponies and the grace and charm of the Fred Astaire dance professionals. The dance floor will be located in a general admission spectating area along the sideline, offering great views of both the matches and choreography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets are still available and can be purchased by going here: <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoloparty.com\/site\/tickets-tables\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/thepoloparty.com\/site\/tickets-tables\/<\/a>.<\/strong> The weather will be perfect, so come on out and experience the world of polo while supporting your Fred Astaire Dance Studios professional dancers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballroom dancing leaves the ballroom for the polo field in a likely first-time-ever event at The 5th Annual Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships: Horses &amp; Horsepower on Saturday, Oct. 24, at WestWorld of Scottsdale. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., professional dancers from Fred Astaire Dance Studios of Scottsdale will waltz, tango, foxtrot and swing on [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-info-news-trends"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/cave-creek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}