Monday, February 6, 2012

2nd Annual- 2012 All Area Winter Dance Showcase!

This February marks the one year anniversary of the First Ever All Area Winter Dance Showcase.

An event in this nature was forever a dream of mine and coming from small, rural Rushville, we do not have the means to compete or funding for regular traveling for dance co...mpetiton. Finally last December this dream became reality when I approached R/I schools and our dance team about the idea. With the help of dear friends and fabulous "producers" Becky Jones and Marilyn walters, we made the event come to life!

I am extremely excited to announce the 2nd Annual- All Area Winter Dance Showcase will be happening this February the 25th at Rushville-Industry High school. Last years event was a huge success and served as a very entertaining event that brought communities from around the area together. Usually we see this occur for sports/games...this however, brings hightlight to our dance teams; a very well deserved and often times not highlighted sport for all of our schools!

This year I am proud to have continued my involvement with youth, exercise, dance, and fitness as the reigning Miss Macomb. I am blessed to have been asked to speak about the 2011 Dance Showcase and my other programs thoughout the year at the Illinois IAPHERD State Conference! This event has been brought to state highlight and I am thrilled to say I am working on KHQA covering the event. My platform is titled "eCHANGE" -The fight against childhood obesity and inactivity. This by far has been the event that I have been most passionate about during my journey with my programs. I am very proud to be bringing about a second dance showcase this year!!!

Last year we had 7 teams attend from our conference and each team showcased two routines. The gym was packed!! This year I am reaching out all across the area..we want this to be as big and exciting as we can get it to be! The "grand finale" serves a very exciting final event, as all the teams take the floor together to perform a exciting routine!

Official entires are not final yet, but here is a list of teams who have confirmed or who are considering participating/ or we are waiting on response. We proudly reached out to over 38 teams this year, however, for many teams this is a reginal dance competition day. We will post final listings soon. We hope to have at least 10 and this should be about perfect to keep the show around 2 hours.

-Pleasant Plains
-Beardstown
-Farmington
-VIT Astoria
-Havana
-West Central
-Berry Western
-Mendon Unity
-Midwest Central
-Ashland AC Central
-Athens
-Pleasant Hill
-Galesburg
-Hamilton Warsaw
-Carthage
-Sherrard High
-Peoria Notre Dame

MORNING Master ZUMBA Class!!!!

Eva Brammer a wonderful Zumba instructor from Vegas will be coming and helping us have a Master Zumba Class that morning!!! Class will be 10.00 a.m to 12.00. Come to both 1 hour classes or both!!!

It will be a great way to start off the DANCE filled day and get your workout in ;) This will be a party ..you do not want to miss it!

Most importantly....my main goal in starting this program last year was to raise funding for our dance department..something we do not usually get to focus on! As with last year ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HELP THE DANCE DEPT. AND TEAM!!!! =) The Zumba Master Class also goes to the dance fund and half to our band dept.!!! The proceeds will be split 50/50. -50 % going to the winter danceline and 50% will go to the Fall Drill/Dance Team

Come support a great cause and partake in a fun filled day!