{"id":502,"date":"2015-04-13T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T17:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/?p=502"},"modified":"2015-04-13T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T17:19:08","slug":"valdosta-state-university-hosted-its-fourth-annual-dancing-with-the-stars-of-valdosta-event-on-saturday-april-11-in-the-student-union-ballrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/2015\/04\/13\/valdosta-state-university-hosted-its-fourth-annual-dancing-with-the-stars-of-valdosta-event-on-saturday-april-11-in-the-student-union-ballrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Valdosta State University hosted its fourth annual Dancing with the Stars of Valdosta event on Saturday, April 11, in the Student Union Ballrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/Pros-and-Stars-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-503\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/Pros-and-Stars-2015-644x302.jpg\" alt=\"Pros and Stars 2015\" width=\"644\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/Pros-and-Stars-2015-644x302.jpg 644w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/Pros-and-Stars-2015-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight couples \u2014 one local \u201cstar\u201d paired with one local \u201cexpert\u201d \u2014 danced for the Audience Favorite Award while simultaneously having fun and raising much-needed funds for music, theatre, and dance scholarships. They were each allowed to choose their own dance style, theme, costumes, music, and have been rehearsing for weeks wherever and whenever they could.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stars&#8221; included Lisa Aguero, Emily Shaw Anderson, Audrey King, April Scruggs, Freddie D. Broome, Dr. John C. Gaston, Kiley Hill, and Riley Howard.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural Dancing with the Stars of Valdosta raised about $48,000\u00a0\u2014 the largest amount raised in the four years this event has been produced.<\/p>\n<p>The Audience Favorite Award winners were Lisa Aguero and Ethan Parker. The Audience Favorite Award is decided upon by the amount of money that the couple raised for the event. The money will be divided among the departments of music, theatre and dance for scholarships.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/Lisa-Aguero-and-Ethan-Parker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-504 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/Lisa-Aguero-and-Ethan-Parker-644x955.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Aguero and Ethan Parker\" width=\"412\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/Lisa-Aguero-and-Ethan-Parker-644x955.jpg 644w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/Lisa-Aguero-and-Ethan-Parker-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/04\/Lisa-Aguero-and-Ethan-Parker.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact Eric Nielsen at (229) 333-5840 or <a href=\"mailto:enielsen@valdosta.edu\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">enielsen@valdosta.edu<\/span><\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight couples \u2014 one local \u201cstar\u201d paired with one local \u201cexpert\u201d \u2014 danced for the Audience Favorite Award while simultaneously having fun and raising much-needed funds for music, theatre, and dance scholarships. They were each allowed to choose their own dance style, theme, costumes, music, and have been rehearsing for weeks wherever and whenever they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-theatre-dance-communication-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}