On Saturday, October 1, 2011 Julie Weintraub’s Hands Across the Bay will present this year’s Tampa Bay’s Dancing with the Stars, an interactive Ballroom Dance Competition. The event will be held at the stunning Pepin’s Hospitality Centre and will feature epicurean delights, phenomenal auction items and remarkable entertainment by Fred Astaire Dance Studios of Tampa Bay. This exciting and innovative black-tie affair capitalizes on the current popularity of ballroom dancing, reality based television and the overwhelming success of previous years.
Kids Charity of Tampa Bay, Pepin Heart Hospital and Moffitt Cancer Center were the beneficiaries of the 2010 event. This year’s proceeds from the event will go directly to support the mission of Kids Charity of Tampa Bay, Pepin Academies and Hands Across the Bay. Patterned after the tremendously popular ABC television show, Dancing with the Stars, which has just finished its tenth season. This unique event was the first to be produced locally in 2008 and year after year has had unprecedented growth and success. With the overwhelming attendance, response and success of the first four years, we are putting all of our resources into ensuring this year’s event is record breaking! Our exclusive partnership with Fred Astaire Dance Studios of Tampa Bay will allow our Celebrity Star Dancers the opportunity to be paired with a professional dance instructor who will make certain that they dazzle the crowd.
The Celebrity Star Dancers are local community personalities, leaders and celebrities who will capture the audience with grace, glitz and glamour. Each of the dance teams, the Celebrity and their professional partner, will perform one ballroom dance of their choice. Performances will be judged by National and International Ballroom Competition Adjudicators combined with the votes cast by the audience. The steps our dancers take on the dance floor are representative of the many steps that will be taken by Hands Across the Bay to improve the lives of many Tampa Bay residents. We at Hands Across the Bay and all of those that we serve, thank you in advance for supporting and most of all enjoying, Tampa Bay’s Dancing with the Stars 2011.
If you’d like to become a sponsor for this year’s event, please click here for package information.
Voting is now OPEN so be sure to check out the dancer pages and vote for your favorites!
If you have any further questions, contact melissa@handsacrossthebay.com
