Argentine Tango & me

So, I went for it! I have lost my mind and entered a ballroom weight-loss dancing challenge a few weeks ago.

The winner of the 12 week challenge will receive a one year scholarship to the dance studio, a makeover and photoshoot, a two night hotel getaway, a membership to LA Fitness and other prizes. The scoring is a combination of the judges score, my weight loss achievement, the live audience vote and the online vote. That is where you come in!!! Vote for me!

My first performance was this past Friday evening. I danced an Argentine Tango with Angel, one of the instructors at the studio. It was sooooo much more fun than I could have imagined. You can see a video of my dance along with all the other ladies at Adanse.

Instructions on how to vote:
Click on the link.
Be patient and let the page load!
Scroll down a litte bit. The videos are on the left-hand side.
After the last video you will see the voting section - still on the left-hand side!

Feel free to watch all the videos but VOTE FOR ME.

The next performances are March 27, April 17 and May 8. I'll need your votes each time! Thanks for checking it out and wish me luck!! My next dance is the cha-cha!

hugs,
Lourdes

The start of it all

When I started my ballroom dancing classes in August it was mainly because I was interested in learning the foxtrot and the quickstep. I had originally stopped in to get information in early May with Gloria. I went to a cardio dancing class in May but that was basically it. Then in August I received a bonus from work and decided to treat myself to some weekly dancing. But as life would have it August ended up being a bust between family member health issues and travel.

Back in May, while they were giving us a bit of tour, Angel (a dance instructor) challenged me to dance Tango with him. That made me laugh since that is the last thing that I wanted to learn, ever. Fast-forward to October - Jose was playing around with the music and I was curious to what type of dancing was done to a particular song. He called Eddie over and we briefly danced Milonga.

Me-long-A. Yup, Me-Loved-it! I not only followed (with my eyes closed) but felt incredible afterwards, thus the start of Eddie's weekly torture.

This is what I hope the be able to dance in the next few months. I if I am being completely honest, I would SO love to have at least her legs. I think it is asking too much for the body but I'll take that too, God. :)

A dancer in us all

This just made me smile. Enjoy.



Tonight is my appt with Eddie at Adanse. I have been working hard on the Argentine Tango moves. I'll let you know how it went tomorrow. In case you are wondering what it is I am talking about here a short video clip. {yes, today is the video embedding day!}