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Dancing Stars Update – Exciting New Choreography At Dance Practice #2

Ready for another Dancing Stars update? This past Friday, my dance partner, Daniel, and I had our second meeting and practice.  We spent almost 2 hours at Ballroom In Motion working on our dance routine for Dancing Stars of Augusta.  And I feel like we had a pretty good session and made some headway with the choreography! Dance Practice #2 This was only our second time getting together, and it had been a whole week.  Thankfully, I remembered the choreography we had worked on during our first practice. And Daniel had been listening to the song and working on some additional choreography too.  We started things off going over what we had done the previous week. Then, Daniel shared the ideas he had for different parts of the song. To start, we were the only ones there to practice. But some of the other dancers started arriving to work on their dances too. While that makes me a little nervous, it was good to have some feedback from the other "pros"! We added quite a bit to the dance. And honestly, I kept getting tripped up over my own feet, forgetting which direction to go or what step was next. I did text Daniel later and told him we'd probably have to go over the new stuff a few more times to make it stick! But just like the first practice, I had SO much fun.  I forgot just how much I love to dance. We laughed and brainstormed ideas. I videoed some of our practice, and you can get a little teaser of that in the video below! We also discussed costume and shoe ideas.  And I also got to meet Teena Marie, the owner of Ballroom In Motion.  She wanted to see what we had so far and had some great feedback. With a ballet background, there are definitely some major differences! I want to dance on my toes, and ballroom is a bit different! Check out this video for my Dancing Stars update: https://vimeo.com/924596795?share=copy Dancing Stars Of Augusta - What's Next? Coming up this week, Daniel and I have to do a video shoot. Apparently, the video will be shown on the big screen at the show before we dance.  We also have two dance practices on the calendar for this week.  I hope I can get the new choreography down a bit better and we can add to it!  I'd love to get the choreography done so we can start breaking it down and polishing it up! And I've also got to start really looking for a costume.  I've looked, but just haven't had anything jump out at me yet. But I don't have too long... so I need to get on it! Also this week, I've got a fundraising night at Your Pie in North Augusta! Wednesday night between 5p - 8p, Your Pie in North Augusta is going to donate 10% of sales to my Dancing Stars fundraiser to benefit the Alzheimer's Association. I'd love it if you could join us!  Grab some delicious pizza and help a great cause. I'll also be selling raffle tickets for a chance to win FRONT ROW tickets to the 25th Anniversary of Guitar Pull this year! Get more details on the fundraiser at Your Pie HERE! If you can't make it out, we will have more fundraiser events coming up!  And on Saturday, I'll be selling those raffle tickets at Spring Wing Fest. And stay tuned for another Dancing Stars update, coming soon! Read more about why I chose to dance for the Alzheimer's Association HERE! And if you want to donate to my fundraiser to help me reach my goal, CLICK HERE. [select-listicle listicle_id="403484" syndication_name="womens-history-month-empowering-quotes-women" description="yes"]

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