{"id":768,"date":"2015-06-03T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/?p=768"},"modified":"2020-07-07T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T20:14:58","slug":"blackpool-competition-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/blackpool-competition-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool Competition: Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We could not be prouder of our professional couple \u2013 Mar Martinez and Clifton Sepulveda \u2013 who competed in the\u00a0prestigious Blackpool Festival competition in London, England, representing\u00a0the United States and Fred Astaire Dance Studio of West Palm Beach. <strong>Our couple placed in the Cabaret division in Blackpool in the Final, and placed 6th!!!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blackpool Festival held in May, known as the British Open Championships, is the largest of the five yearly festivals hosted there and celebrated\u00a0its 90th anniversary! It took\u00a0place from May 21-29 at the world famous Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of Mar and Clifton&#8217;s outstanding competition sucesses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fred Astaire Novice and Mixed Novice Champions in 2013<\/li>\n<li>Fred Astaire Closed Rhythm Champions in 2014<\/li>\n<li>Fred Astaire Closed Smooth Champions in 2014<\/li>\n<li>Multiple Fred Astaire National Finalist in the Open Cabaret<\/li>\n<li>\u00a04th in theOpen Cabaret \u201cUS National\u201d Division at USDC in 2014<\/li>\n<li>\u00a05th in the Open Cabaret \u201cOpen to the World\u201d Division at USDC\u00a0 in 2014<\/li>\n<li>1st Place in Open Cabaret at the Triple Crown in 2014 and 2015<\/li>\n<li>1st Place in Open Cabaret at Grand Nationals in 2014<\/li>\n<li>1st Place in Open Cabaret at First Closed Classic in 2014<\/li>\n<li>Invited to the Blackpool Festival in 2015 for the Theatrical Exhibition,\u00a0 placed 6th in the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank\u00a0you\u00a0to everyone who helped out!\u00a0We\u2019re very proud of them and grateful to all the people who came out to support them!<\/p>\n<p>View\u00a0some photos from Blackpool below!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-769\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-769 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-1-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Mar Martinez and Clifton Sepulveda dancing in the prestigious Blackpool Festival competition in London, England\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-1-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-1-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-1-776x484.png 776w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-1.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mar Martinez and Clifton Sepulveda dancing in the prestigious Blackpool Festival competition in London, England<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-770 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-2-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Mar Martinez and Clifton Sepulveda dancing in the prestigious Blackpool Festival competition in London, England\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-2-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-2-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-2-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-2-776x484.png 776w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-2.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-771 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-3-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Mar Martinez and Clifton Sepulveda dancing in the prestigious Blackpool Festival competition in London, England\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-3-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-3-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-3-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-3-776x484.png 776w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-3.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-772 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-4-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Mar Martinez and Clifton Sepulveda dancing in the prestigious Blackpool Festival competition in London, England\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-4-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/211\/2015\/06\/blackpool-4-300x188.png 300w, 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Our couple placed in the Cabaret division in Blackpool in the Final, and placed 6th!!!\u00a0 The Blackpool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-competitions","category-dance-info-news-trends"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/west-palm-beach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}