{"id":67931,"date":"2007-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-club-takes-a-few-new-steps\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-club-takes-a-few-new-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/03\/uri-club-takes-a-few-new-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"URI club takes a few new steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 8, 2007 \u2013 The University of Rhode Island Ballroom Dance Club allows students to two-step and rumba with their creativity, providing classes and competitions for dancers and wannabe dancers of all kinds.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe club holds classes, competes nationally and hosts dances on campus.  It also keeps its members updated on socials and dances throughout the local community.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cWe like to be able to give everyone a taste of the elegant, smooth, ballroom dancing,\u201d club co-president Kelly Almond of Hollis, N.H., said. \u201cBut we also want them to be able to learn the fun, sassy Latin dances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe club welcomes undergrads, grad students, staff, faculty and alumni of all experience levels.  In fact, no experience is needed for the beginner class or the competition team.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe competition team focuses on making the students\u2019 dancing better instead of expanding their repertoire.  The team is lead by URI graduate Tim Sorrentino, who started ballroom dancing at the university in 1997. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nDancers are encouraged to learn at their own pace and are offered the opportunity to travel to other universities to compete.  The team has traveled to Florida, Ohio and several northeast competitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe group was established in 1995 and started with about 20 members.  It has expanded since to offer various classes throughout the week. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tClasses offered in the first six-week session are: a technique class, international tango and rumba, international waltz and samba, international cha cha and viennese; and paso doble and quickstep.  The second session also includes the international foxtrot, jive and aalsa, and the West Coast Swing. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cI think it&#8217;s a shame that, especially before Dancing with the Stars and all the other ballroom shows and movies out right now, a lot of people still think \u2018boring\u2019 whenever they hear someone mention ballroom dancing,\u201d Almond said. \u201cI can tell you, it&#8217;s anything but boring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tEach class costs only $5 and covers six weeks of lessons.  For more information visit www.uri.edu\/student_organizations\/ballroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 8, 2007 \u2013 The University of Rhode Island Ballroom Dance Club allows students to two-step and rumba with their creativity, providing classes and competitions for dancers and wannabe dancers of all kinds. &#13; The club holds classes, competes nationally and hosts dances on campus. It also keeps its members updated on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}