{"id":79673,"date":"2018-04-10T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=79673"},"modified":"2018-04-10T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:18:05","slug":"dancing-dsu-stars-returns-april-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2018\/04\/dancing-dsu-stars-returns-april-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing with the DSU Stars returns April 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>2017 participants of DSU&#8217;s Dancing With the Stars. This year&#8217;s event takes place April 30 at 7 p.m. in the Bologna Performing Arts Center.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Student Affairs presents the second annual Dancing with the DSU Stars on April 30 at 7 p.m. in the Bologna Performing Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The show is modeled closely after the \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d television show. \u00a0Participating Delta State dancers will be\u00a0partnered with a husband and wife professional team out of Memphis \u2014 Benji and Beth Smith of DanceSmiths Ballroom Dance Studio.<\/p>\n<p>2018 Participants include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ashley Griffin, Student Government Association president;<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Vernell Bennett, Vice President for Student Affairs<\/li>\n<li>Ronnie Mayers, Athletic Director<\/li>\n<li>Christie Rocconi, director of Financial Aid<\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Farris &#8211; director of Alumni Affairs<\/li>\n<li>Dr. George Beals -assistant professor of counselor education and president of DSU&#8217;s Faculty Senate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr. Vernell Bennett said the event will build on last year&#8217;s momentum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The success of last year&#8217;s show made recruitment for this year&#8217;s contestants an easy task,&#8221; said Bennett.\u00a0 &#8220;Our theme continues to be &#8216;Bringing the campus and community together for some toe tappin&#8217; fun!&#8217; It was great to have so many individuals from the community in the audience last year, and the audience dance contest was a fun way to get everyone involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Benji and Beth Smith of DanceSmiths Ballroom Dance Studio of Memphis are providing the instruction again this year,&#8221; added Bennett. &#8220;They will perform on the program, as will top\u00a0dancers from their studio. Senator Willie Simmons has agreed to return as a celebrity judge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow all Delta State news at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/\">www.deltastate.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 participants of DSU&#8217;s Dancing With the Stars. This year&#8217;s event takes place April 30 at 7 p.m. in the Bologna Performing Arts Center. &nbsp; The Office of Student Affairs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":79677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79673"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79717,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673\/revisions\/79717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}