{"id":4197,"date":"2023-04-20T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T14:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T15:00:43","slug":"students-learn-ballroom-dancing-for-upcoming-under-the-stars-formal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/20\/students-learn-ballroom-dancing-for-upcoming-under-the-stars-formal\/","title":{"rendered":"ISCO students learn ballroom dancing for upcoming &#8216;Under the Stars&#8217; formal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 TROY students grabbed their dancing shoes and learned ballroom dancing to prepare for the International Student Services (ISS) &#8220;Under the Stars&#8221; formal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday night, the International Student Cultural Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TroyISCO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ISCO<\/a>) hosted a ballroom dancing event taught by Professor Ellis Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I really enjoyed this ballroom dancing event and my favorite was probably dancing the swing dance and the Cha-cha-cha,&#8221; said international student Dylan Park. &#8220;I really like the part where everybody would gather in a circle and just dance together because we would get to switch partners and get to meet everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students learned dances such as Swing, the Cha-cha-cha and the Tango. The dances were learned in pairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This was just a fun night to learn some basics of some of the different ballroom dances,&#8221; said Ballroom Dance Professor Ellis Bush. &#8220;We started with the swing dance, traditional American dance and we learned some of the basic swing dances. Then we moved to a Latin dance, the Cha-cha-cha and then ended with a slower dance, the tango, just because it&#8217;s so much fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who participated were not only able to learn something new, but socialize with different people as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ballroom dance is called a social dance, which means you don&#8217;t just dance with the person you came with, you dance with everybody,&#8221; Bush explained. &#8220;You get to meet other people, you get some good exercise and just laugh and have fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was in preparation for the upcoming Under the Stars formal put on by ISS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I definitely think I&#8217;m going to be using the dances at the formal because we&#8217;re going to be using the songs we played here at the the dance,&#8221; Park said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Under the Stars formal begins Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Trojan Center ballrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 TROY students grabbed their dancing shoes and learned ballroom dancing to prepare for the International Student Services (ISS) &#8220;Under the Stars&#8221; formal.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night, the International Student Cultural Organization (ISCO) hosted a ballroom dancing event taught by Professor Ellis Bush.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really enjoyed this ballroom dancing event and my favorite was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/20\/students-learn-ballroom-dancing-for-upcoming-under-the-stars-formal\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[333],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-isco","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}