Team Mambo at Dance Legends 2012

We finally performed the show that we have been working on for the last two months. Liza and I, along with four other couples danced a killer Mambo choreographed and coached by Benito Garcia at the Dance Legends show in New York. This event was perhaps the biggest ballroom dance show to ever take place in the US. It included performances from legendary couples like Brian Watson and Carmen and the top professional couples in world today. After rehearsing our Mambo number for about a million times, it was overwhelming dancing it in front of a huge cheering audience. Only five seconds into our dance, I was hit by a roar of cheering and applause on a magnitude that I have never felt before. It was a pleasure sharing the floor with the most inspirational dancers and with my teammates. I hope we have more opportunities to dance this amazing show, and perhaps add another to our set! Thank you Team Mambo, but even more thanks to Benito for having the patience and genius to put this together.

Semi-Finalists in the US!

What a great weekend! On Friday night , Liza and I danced at the USA Dance Nationals 2012 in Baltimore, MD and it went extremely well. Starting out with 29 couples in the Amateur Championship Latin category, we danced through the first-round and quarter-final as one of the most recalled couples and placed 7th in the Semi-Final. The crowd was great, cheering us on, and we just became more and more pumped with each round. Before the Semi-Final, we decided it was unlikely we would go any further and we should have fun with it, giving it everything we've got. It definitely paid off when we placed as the next couple into the final. With only 3 recalls away from the next two couples, making the final was definitely a possibility. After such a great evening, and such little preparation we are extremely motivated for next comps to come, especially Blackpool 2012!