{"id":8017,"date":"2025-11-24T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/?post_type=team_member&#038;p=8017"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:40:42","slug":"francesco-valentino","status":"publish","type":"team_member","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/member\/francesco-valentino\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Valentino-Dance Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3662841390052708853.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3662841390052708853-283x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3662841390052708853-283x300.jpeg 283w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3662841390052708853-966x1024.jpeg 966w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3662841390052708853-768x814.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3662841390052708853.jpeg 1062w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3659887874526680426.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3659887874526680426-300x288.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3659887874526680426-300x288.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2025\/11\/3659887874526680426.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Francesco, born in Italy, began his Ballroom Dance journey as Amateur in 1996 and turned Professional in 2003. He has since become a multiple-time Italian Professional National Dance Champion (2012, 2013, 2014, 2024, 2025), semifinalist at the German Open Championships (2019, 2022), and served as Athletes\u2019 Technical Representative for National Dances since 2012. As a Professional Competitor, Judge, and Coach, he brings extensive experience and a teaching style focused on technique, musicality, and expressive detail to help dancers reach their potential both competitively and socially.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8046,"template":"","class_list":["post-8017","team_member","type-team_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/8017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team_member"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/8017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/chelsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}