{"id":4269,"date":"2016-09-07T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2025-03-19T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:47:36","slug":"dancesport-challenge-2016-info-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/dancesport-challenge-2016-info-need\/","title":{"rendered":"DanceSport Challenge 2016; All the Info You Need!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeehaw, it\u2019s competition time! And It\u2019s not too late to join us as several of our students and instructors hit the competition dance floor! Our students will be representing their Chicagoland studio at this year\u2019s Regional DanceSport Challenge! The event will be held at the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westinnorthshore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Westin Northshore Hotel<\/a> in Wheeling, IL on September 16<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>DanceSport Challenge has grown with every passing year and is surely one of the premier showcases for our Illinois Fred Astaire Dance Studios. The two-day event will accommodate both students and professionals. The first session begins at 9 a.m. on Friday and dinner is from 5-6:30 p.m. followed by session two. \u00a0Saturday\u2019s sessions begin at 8:30 a.m., with cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. And we have something special in store for dinner; a full country style meal complete with corn on the cob and ribs! To top of the night we will also have a Square Dance Caller so everyone will be \u201cswinging their partner round and round&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>From American Smooth to International Latin Single to American Rhythm, we will put talented and hard-working dancers on the floor. Make sure to purchase your tickets by <a href=\"http:\/\/fredastaireillinois.com\/spectator-tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Competitions enable our students to fully gauge the progress they\u2019ve made with their instructors and to dance successfully before <a href=\"http:\/\/fredastaireillinois.com\/adjudicators-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">qualified adjudicators<\/a>. There\u2019s the satisfaction of success in measuring one\u2019s development through dedication to dance and to hard work!<\/p>\n<p>Those traveling from out of town may reserve their room by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwoodmeeting.com\/events\/start.action?id=1608013313&amp;key=D387128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here<\/a> and tickets may be purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/fredastaireillinois.com\/spectator-tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Come cheer on your friends and fellow students as they strut their stuff on the competition dance floor &amp; find out what the world of competitive ballroom dancing is all about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeehaw, it\u2019s competition time! And It\u2019s not too late to join us as several of our students and instructors hit the competition dance floor! Our students will be representing their Chicagoland studio at this year\u2019s Regional DanceSport Challenge! The event will be held at the prestigious Westin Northshore Hotel in Wheeling, IL on September 16th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-competitions","category-dance-info-news-trends"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/long-grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}