Pia Cardillo, <\/span>Lori Dahlberg, <\/span>Joanne Reed Johnson, <\/span>Halina Kolano, <\/span>Mollie Lawrence, <\/span>Baixiu Liu, <\/span>Gabriela Lopez, <\/span>Andrew Machleder, Victoria<\/span>\u00a0Sebastian, <\/span>Tammy Molinari Siana & <\/span>Rika Yamaguchi each danced their hearts out on the competition floor! \u00a0There were many high placements, ribbons and medals earned within the FADS Morristown Team Saturday! Congratulations to all!<\/span><\/p>\n We are thrilled to have had each and every one of you as members of our competition team! You represented Fred Astaire Morristown and Team Army\/Airforce and helped our team win! We hope you enjoyed an\u00a0incredible experience! We also thank\u00a0all our friendly spectators who joined us to cheer on their friends from the sidelines.<\/p>\n The Team Match competition began at 8am and concluded with two exciting, highly anticipated events — the Team Match & the professional Jack & Jill! \u00a0In the end, the Team Match Winners\u00a0were announced — Team Army\/Airforce was the winner with the most points accumulated throughout the day!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Following the competition, the Team Match day concluded with a relaxed but dressy\u00a0Oscars-style banquet complete with sit-down dinner, drinks, awards ceremony, an impressive professional dance show & lots of social dancing!<\/p>\n Awards received by Fred Astaire Dance Studio of Morristown, Staff<\/a> & Students included:<\/p>\n Top Studio – Morristown The highlight of the evening, however, were the exciting professional dance performances! [SGVYT ids =’e3LTTKPTuxM’ types = ‘yt’ title = ‘undefined’ desc = ‘undefined’]<\/p>\n We hope you all join us when we gather again for our next competition, the Metropolitan DanceSport Championships! \u00a0Fred Astaire’s New York region will be joining us for this event, which will take place in Long Branch, NJ at the beautiful Ocean Place Resort on March 10th & 11th 2017.<\/p>\n Be sure to check our calendar<\/a> for other upcoming events<\/a> & see your teacher now for information on how YOU\u00a0can take to the competition dance floor & represent Fred Astaire Morristown at this exciting event<\/span>!<\/p>\n Team Match 2017 was a complete success! We would like to congratulate all of our 11 Team Match competitors! Each dancer\u00a0did a wonderful job this weekend! Pia Cardillo, Lori Dahlberg, Joanne Reed Johnson, Halina Kolano, Mollie Lawrence, Baixiu Liu, Gabriela Lopez, Andrew Machleder, Victoria\u00a0Sebastian, Tammy Molinari Siana & Rika Yamaguchi each danced their hearts out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":4795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22],"tags":[369,288,273,121,246,370,45,48,123,49,50,85,247,256,56,72,44,371,202,250,372],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dance-competitions","category-dance-info-news-trends","tag-369","tag-awards","tag-ballroom-dancing","tag-banquet","tag-best-studio","tag-best-teacher","tag-competition","tag-dance","tag-dance-competition","tag-dancesport","tag-dancing","tag-fred-astaire-dance-studio","tag-metropolitan","tag-metropolitan-dancesport-championships","tag-morristown","tag-new-jersey","tag-nj","tag-ocean-place","tag-team-match","tag-top-studio","tag-top-teachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Team](\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2017\/01\/Team-Match-for-blog.gif\")
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\nTop Overall Student – Rika Yamaguchi
\nTop Silver Student – Mollie Lawrence
\nTop Bronze Student – Rika Yamaguchi
\nTop Teacher – Joe Miller
\n2nd Place Top Teacher\u00a0 – Tsvetomir Stoynov
\nSuperstar Studio Award – Morristown
\nPersonality Award – Natalie Duke-Honkonen
\nRookie of the Year – Anthony Soto
\nTop Receptionist – Cristina DiGiacomo<\/p>\n
\nHere’s a small glimpse of what you missed if you weren’t able to attend this fabulous night:<\/p>\n![\"Long](\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2017\/01\/Long-Branch-2017.jpg\")
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