Rod Sturdivant Dancing With the Waco Stars 2023

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...