Rod Sturdivant Dancing With the Waco Stars 2023

 

  The VIDEO introduction:

 Now that the event is over, I'll share the full dance from the Texas Showdown.  

Dancing with the Waco Stars is over...and Stephanie and I were extremely pleased with our performance.  We cannot thank those who supported us and the Family Abuse Center enough!  I hope to provide some more details but as of the Monday before the show we had over $11,000 in votes and ticket sales.  Not enough to win...but that just means FAC won all the more overall.  I think over $120,000 as of Monday totals. I also hope to have video to share of our dance.  Yes, I will share...the goal met:  I am not ashamed (far from it).  Stephanie is a miracle worker. In the meantime, a few final week photos and thoughts. DRESS REHEARSAL:  Sunday was dress rehearsal at the Waco Hippodrome.  We had one run through of the routine.  It went well, but I slept very, very poorly that night running through every mistake in my mind.  Nerves suddenly as the event became very real!!! HAIR (no makeup!) and TIME TO DANCE Thursday we did a short rehearsal ...

  Yes, believe it or not, I have now performed a "solo" routine at a dance showdown event.  Stephanie suggested this as a nice way to prepare for DWTWS...testing how to handle nerves, finding things we can improve, and getting the feel for performing for an audience.  Really great idea - but, not going to lie, a bit terrifying.  But we ended up having a great time too!!!! I will share only a "snippet" (for now) of the video.  Don't want to give everything away for October 26th! Some images of other moments in the dance.  I think (hopefully?) the video and images show two things:  1) How much I have improved and 2) That there is joy and fun in our dancing.   Three weeks to go...and I am not done with either of those points! This picture, frankly, was a bit of a rough start...for some reason I took an extra step and messed up my leap.  Some other spots that I for sure want to fix...a later spot when i carried more momentum than I wanted an...

You read that right...there will be calendars produced with each of the 12 couples participating in Dancing With the Waco Stars as one of the months. My reaction to this news? Actually, that is just part of us having fun with it!  The final image will have a background yet to be determined (get tickets to the event and you will get a calendar and can see 👀...and add some votes for us, of course!) Here is a video of one of our attempts to get the pose we wanted.  Note that our outfits and the pose (and the music playing in the background) should give you all you need to guess the song/theme movie we will dance to. I actually think we have a couple of better choices that will be the final product, but seriously, who needs Ryan and Emma when you have Rod and Stephanie?

 September 11th we were filmed to create the video that will play prior to our dance on October 26th.   A few short clips from the interview portion (sorry for the sound quality...) Many have probably wondered about what it would be like to attempt to train Rod: We like the reaction at the end of the first clip...continuing: They also filmed us doing a run through of the routine...our blog videographer (Mandy) left at that point as she wants to have some surprise at the final (hopefully much improved) product.  Of course, getting tickets to the event will ensure you too can see the results of all this practice!!!  Not to mention giving us more votes 😏