{"id":7132,"date":"2020-02-02T14:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:13:54","slug":"texas-grand-championships-awards-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/texas-grand-championships-awards-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Grand Championships &#038; Awards Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <strong>Texas Grand Championships &amp; Awards Gala<\/strong> is taking place at the Houston Cityplace Marriot, February 13th through 15th. The weekend-long regional competition will include student &amp; professional competitions, professional shows, a banquet dinner, and much more!<\/p>\n<p>We start off the event on Thursday night, with a <strong>Master Class<\/strong> during the afternoon, followed by student performances at night! Our Master Classes are a great opportunity to learn from highly-skilled, world-renowned coaches. \u00a0Session 1 will be with the amazing Ania Tarnowska from 3:30- 4:15 and Session 2 with the incredible Nikolay Karchev from 4:15- 5:00.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, February 14th we have our<strong> Nightclub Carnival de Brazil Championship Divisions beginning at 7:30 p.m.<\/strong> Bring your colorful shirts and dresses, Rio style! This is a competitive social dancing event filled with social dances such as Salsa, Bachata, West and East Coast Swing, Country Waltz, more! <strong>At 9:30 p.m. ALL professionals will compete! <\/strong>This will be an exciting night you won\u2019t want to miss.<\/p>\n<p>We cap off the event Saturday night which will include a <strong>banquet dinner along with awards, general dancing, and a professional show<\/strong> put on by WDSF Showcase Vice Champions, Marts Smolko &amp; Tina Bazykina!<\/p>\n<p>The night will also include our <strong>Freddy Awards<\/strong> for students and professionals. For our instructors, it is the \u201cOscars\u201d of our industry, as top teachers will be awarded a \u201cFreddy Award\u201d for their outstanding performances of the 2019 year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Come on out and join the fun! There really is something for everybody, and all are welcome to attend!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Texas Grand Championships &amp; Awards Gala is taking place at the Houston Cityplace Marriot, February 13th through 15th. The weekend-long regional competition will include student &amp; professional competitions, professional shows, a banquet dinner, and much more! We start off the event on Thursday night, with a Master Class during the afternoon, followed by student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-competitions","category-dance-info-news-trends","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/champions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}