{"id":7016,"date":"2017-10-17T20:37:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T00:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2017-10-17T20:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T00:37:47","slug":"congratulations-dancesport-competitors-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/blog\/ballroom-dances\/congratulations-dancesport-competitors-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Northeast Competitors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Congratulations, Northeast DanceSport Competitors!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to congratulate all of our students and staff members who competed this past weekend at the Northeast DanceSport Championships!<\/p>\n<p>This competition is one of our favorites as it takes place close to home.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always more fun and exciting to dance when you have lots of friends and fellow dancers cheering for you from the spectator sidelines.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s a special Thank You to all of our students and friends who showed up to provide moral support.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing in the world quite like a live ballroom &amp; latin dancesport competition! We&#8217;re sure you definitely got to enjoy some wonderful dancing and an overall fabulous experience during your visit!<\/p>\n<p>Our 2017 Northeast DanceSport Challenge student competitors were<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Lori Dahlberg,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Amy Gaitane,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Joanne Johnson,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Mollie Lawrence,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Gaby Lopez,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Victoria Sebastian,<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Tammy Siana<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>&amp;<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Rika Yamaguchi.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5796\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2017\/10\/Northeast-DanceSport-2017.jpg\" alt=\"northeast dancesport\" width=\"528\" height=\"960\" class=\"wp-image-5796 size-full\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Joanne Johnson, Greg Capar, Mollie Lawrence, Tsvetomir Stoynov &amp; Gaby Lopez pose for a photo between dances during the American Smooth Competition<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Each and every one of you put a great deal of hard work into preparing for this event.\u00a0 And you all did a fabulous job dancing, whether competing in Smooth, Rhythm or Show division!\u00a0 We are so proud of you!<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights of the competition results came from two of our ladies competing in the Silver division.\u00a0 Gaby Lopez was 1st place in Silver Smooth B division Championship and 4th place in the Silver Rhythm B division Championship! Mollie Lawrewence placed 1st in the Silver Smooth Championship C division. Joanne Johnson placed 3rd in the Bronze Rhythm B division Championship.\u00a0 Congratulations to all of you on achieving these incredible results!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5797\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2017\/10\/Northeast-DanceSport-Ladies-Formation.jpg\" alt=\"northeast dancesport\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" class=\"wp-image-5797 size-full\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Mollie Lawrence, Tammy Siana, Joanne Johnson, Rika Yamaguchi &amp; Lori Dahlberg join their instructor, Natalie Duke, to accept recognition for their Performance in the Ladies Formation &#8220;Animals&#8221; at the Cast Party following the conclusion of the Show division.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/staff\/\">Morristown teaching staff<\/a> also did an amazing job in the Professional DanceSport divisions.\u00a0 At the Saturday night banquet our staff member Tsvetomir Stoynov received the 4th place Top Teacher award!\u00a0 We are so proud! Go Morristown!<\/p>\n<p>With this long-awaited competition behind us, our studio is now looking forward to its next competitive event!\u00a0 (That is, following next month&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/events\/\">National competition, NDC<\/a> in Orlando, Florida) This coming Winter 2018 student dancers from across New Jersey will come together for one of the most exciting, fun competitions our region offers.\u00a0 Students of all levels are welcome and encouraged to participate in this convenient, low-pressure, super fun one-day event. See your teacher for more details about January&#8217;s Team Match competition! Be sure to register now so you can start preparing to be part of this friendly NJ-wide challenge!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, Northeast DanceSport Competitors! 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This competition is one of our favorites as it takes place close to home.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always more fun and exciting to dance when you have lots of friends and fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":3935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28,393],"tags":[142,222,123,49,50,52,72,44,224,202,221],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballroom-dances","category-dance-competitions","category-featured","tag-challenge","tag-championships","tag-dance-competition","tag-dancesport","tag-dancing","tag-fred-astaire","tag-new-jersey","tag-nj","tag-northeast","tag-team-match","tag-whippany"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","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=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/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=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}