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DDF Welcomes Fitness Champion Chelcea Gonzales!

Posted on 01.17.12 Personal Training 0 Comments

At Diamond Dance and Fitness, we constantly strive to bring you the best possible fitness, health and dance education available. We regularly bring the top professionals from each industry to our studio for coaching, so our members can learn from the very best. We are thrilled to announce that WBFF Professional Chelcea Gonzales will be in the studio Monday, January 23 and Tuesday, January 24!

Chelcea is a personal trainer and fitness competitor from Omaha, Nebraska. Among her many accomplishments, she is a former Miss World Physique and 1st Runner Up Miss Planet Beach Omaha. She specializes in helping clients design a diet and exercise plan that will help them accomplish their goals and reach their highest potential. Training with Chelcea is an excellent opportunity to create a blueprint for your fitness success in 2012!

She will be available for private training sessions in Gahanna on Monday and Westerville on Tuesday, as well as conducting a group seminar each evening at Gahanna. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity, available only at DDF! Call the studio today to reserve your spot!

The Results Are In From the Riverfront DanceSport Challenge!

Posted on 01.17.12 Competition 0 Comments

The staff and students of DDF kicked off the competitive ballroom season by traveling to Covington, Kentucky the weekend of January 14 to attend the 2nd Annual Riverfront DanceSport Festival. Competing at the event were veteran students Jamie Wells, Heidi Lewis, Eileen Carman, Sandy Marino, Phyllis Thornton and Fran Sherowski, as well as two new faces to the DDF family, Cathy Tavenner and Sandy Ewing.

Jamie Wells received top honors as the Grand Champion of the Solo Division, as well as placing 1st in the Standard Scholarship Division. Heidi Lewis claimed the Grand Champion title in the Smooth Division, 1st Place Smooth Scholarship Divison, 2nd Place Standard Scholarship Division, and 2nd Place Rhythm Scholarship Division. Both of these lovely ladies are under the guidance of Josh Tilford. Eileen Carman, Sandy Marino and Fran Sherowski brought down the house in the Solo Division and received top honors as well.

After all the dancing was done, DDF took 2nd Place Top Studio overall. The following day, Josh Tilford and Ashley Wessel were honored to be asked to participate as demonstrators in workshops taught by the legendary Sam Sodano.

Congratulations to all our hardworking staff and students for such an impressive performance at the first ballroom competition of the year! We are looking forward to an exciting competition season in 2012. Next up, the Michigan Dance Challenge!

Josh Tilford Stars in Short Film

Posted on 12.26.11 Special Events 3 Comments

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Josh Tilford recently stared in a short film, “The Fencing Lesson” where he was both dance choreographer and had an important role as a student taking a fencing lesson. Ashley Wessel also had a cameo appearance as a fencing student and was the film’s makeup artist. The primary actors of the film had been searching for a dance studio willing to teach them the dance for the film. They had no experience with dancing. After many rejections from other studios, Josh got on board and began choreographing the dance for the film.

DDF Winter Showcase

Posted on 12.10.11 Special Events 0 Comments

Congratulations to all the participants in our first annual winter showcase. It was a great success! Wonderful dancing and performances with all our DDF students and staff. Thank you ALL for coming out to support the show.

Let’s all get ready for May 12th as we are bringing in Eduard Apolonov to do our choreography. Remember, the theme is “Cover Songs” so start looking for music now. Casting call will be January 7th. See you all there!