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:
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.
Women's History Month: Empowering Quotes For Young Women
Susan B. Anthony
“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself,” said Susan B. Anthony. She gave a speech in San Fransciso in July of 1871. Anthony said this quote during her speech to show women that times were changing. In 1888, she helped to merge the two largest suffrage associations into one, the National American Women’s Suffrage Association. She was an American women’s rights activist known for her role in the women’s suffrage movement.
Portrait of Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a women’s rights activist and suffragist, abolitionist, and Quaker. Photograph engraving published 1895. Original edition is in my archives. Copyright expired and in Public Domain.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a U.S. Supreme Court justice, said, “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” Ginsburg advocated for women’s rights. She directed the influential Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union during the 1970s. In 1996, Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion in United States v. Virginia, holding that qualified women could not be denied admission to Virginia Military Institute.
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Sandra Day O'Connor
The late Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice. She said, “As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.” O’Connor shattered the idea that women were not qualified to serve on the nation’s highest court. She further opened the door for women at all levels of the legal profession.
Women standing backwards together at full length against gray wall, hold on to each other, dressed in white T-shirts and jeans, rear view
Gertrude Ederle
“When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that’s when I do it,” said Gertrude Ederle. She was the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had ever swam the waterway before. According to the History network, She first tried to cross the English Channel in 1925 but didn’t make it all the way across. The following year, she tried again at age 20 when she completed the swim.
Woman swimming in a lake on a summer day
