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Bringing it to Brandeis!

4/17/2012

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On March 10th, what originally started as just Matt and I, quickly turned into a nice little group of 15 of us headed for this year's ballroom competition at Brandeis University!  (Otherwise known as the Northeast Collegiate DanceSport Challenge - yeah... we'll stick with the "Brandeis Comp"...)


Anyways!  All in all, it was an AWESOME day - we had a ton of fun at the competition, we all danced really well, and my back held up!  For those of you with your puzzled-face on, I managed to tear/pull/misalign something in my back right at the end of January and it's been a little rough.  My first day of physical therapy was the day before this competition... I went for it anyway... :) 

We started the morning off with Rhythm - that can be a little rough... asking for a lot of high energy first thing in the morning!  Matt and I got 4th in Gold ChaCha/Rumba/Swing/Mambo (out of 4... but we had fun!).  

For Gold American Smooth, we ended up with 3rd in Waltz/Foxtrot and 4th in Tango/VWaltz (out of 6).  The couples that took first and second were actually Open couples, I think so we're totally fine falling in behind them!  

And finally, for Gold International Standard, we ended up with 5th for Watlz/Tango/Foxtrot/Quickstep (out of 7) and 6th in Viennese Waltz (out of 10).

Matt and I also ended up winning the Dance for the Cure Foxtrot Fun Dance and I followed a Newcomer from WPI (Sam) for a Waltz Fun Dance and we took 5th!


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(photo by Chris)
My favorite dance of the day?  Definitely the Fun Dance I did with Rob!  I was SUPER excited that he wanted to come with us for the day and watch.  In the afternoon, they did a Macarena Fun Dance - basically? Anything and everything was fair game!  I was kind of just hoping we could go out and goof around for the first round, but one of the judges (Russell) really liked us and thanks to him we ended up with 3 call-backs and made it to the final round!!  (We got Finalist ribbons - I think they only actually placed 1st place.)  Soooooo much fun :)

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(photo by Chris)
Some other photos from the day... :)
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Stephanie let me borrow this dress! LOVE the color :) (photo by Chris)
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With Jenn and Steve! (photo by Chris)
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a little Rumba (photo by Chris)
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Mambo! (photo by Chris)
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(photo by Chris)
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American Waltz (photo by Chris)
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American Waltz (photo by Chris)
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American Foxtrot, maybe? (photo by Chris)
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American Tango (photo by Chris)
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American Tango (photo by Chris)
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American Tango (photo by Chris)
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VWaltz! (photo by Chris)
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International Tango - love this picture (although... this is probably why I have back problems.. haha) (photo by Chris)
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Aunt Carol
5/12/2012 06:08:12 am

Beautiful! I was happy to read your back was not too bad & that you could dance. Rob....good for him having the courage to dance with you being soooooooo good! xoxoxox

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