{"id":8577,"date":"2025-01-07T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doylestown\/?post_type=team_member&#038;p=8577"},"modified":"2025-01-29T18:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:44:56","slug":"elina-semka-professional-instructor","status":"publish","type":"team_member","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doylestown\/member\/elina-semka-professional-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Elina Semka &#8211; Professional Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8577\" class=\"elementor elementor-8577\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-elementor-post-type=\"team_member\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-845a564 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"845a564\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-182f138 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"182f138\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Fred Astaire Dance Studios, Doylestown<\/h5><h6>Professional Instructor<\/h6><h6>With Fred Astaire Dance Studios since 2023<\/h6><hr \/><h3><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/h3><p>Elina Semka started her dance career at the age of 5 in Balabanovo, Russia at the dance club \u201cGloria\u201d. Within 2 months, she went to her first competition. She is a finalist, prize-winner and winner of the WDSF and WDC competitions. She was also a Finalist of the EADC Championship and in Top 20 rating of Russian couples.<\/p><p>In 2017, Elina began dancing with her professional partner, now husband since 2024, Mikhail Kolosov. Together they&#8217;ve won many competitions in Russia and Europe.<\/p><p>In 2023 Mikhail and Elina moved to the United States, and continue showing great results with Fred Astaire Dance Studios and in Independent competitions.<\/p><h3><strong>Achievements:<\/strong><\/h3><ul><li>Champion in Rising Star Professional Latin and Open Professional Latin at the Fred Astaire Cross Country Dance Championships<\/li><li>Vice-Champion in Rising Star Professional Open Latin at Ohio Star Ball<\/li><li>3rd place Rising Star Professional International Open Latin at US Championship<\/li><li>Finalist and prizewinner of major competitions in the USA<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":8600,"template":"","class_list":["post-8577","team_member","type-team_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doylestown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/8577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doylestown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doylestown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team_member"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doylestown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_member\/8577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doylestown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/doylestown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}