Dancing With the Athletes

This last Thrusday was the "DancingWith the Athletes" concert that my ballroom company hosted. Basically It is the same concept as "dancing with the stars" the TV show where celebrities (or in our case 10 of the most popular athletes at our school) are trained be professionals to dance certain ballroom dances and then perform in front of an audience and a panel of judges. it was different in a few areas however. the scores were not announced and comments from the judges where only made after the second dance that the couples performed. but let me back up a little. each athlete was assigned to a member of our team( mostly the captains and the seniors). they drew out of a hat both a standard and a latin dance. standard dances are waltz, vienese waltz, tango, swing and foxtrot. latin dances are cha-cha, samba, rumba and mambo and pasodoble. then they were assigned a proffessional choreographer and had three sessions to choreograph a number for each of the dances. then the couples were on their own to practice and perfect their dances. they only had two weeks to do that. on wednesday they all came and performed for the rest of team during our first period class. i was SO impressed. the next day was spent in preperations for that nights performance. i got to shadow 3 of the girls, meaning i did or made sure their hair and make-up was done correctly and made sure they were in the right place and costume at the right time. they all did so well that night and the whole night ran VERY smoothly. my friend sabrina(from team) and her partner Mua(from football) won first place!! it was so great!! i was talking to one of my coaches afterwards and she said that we would do it again next year. it was a huge success!!