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Last week was the semi-annual Arthur Murray Showcase ballroom dance spectacular at the Hotel Roanoke, put on by the Arthur Murray Studio in Roanoke, Virginia. This was the fourth one I’ve been at to cheer on my girlfriend Kristen Bradford. And once again she was a thrill and a beauty to behold! Her routines garnered a wazoo of applause from the audience and some of them she kept as quite a surprise… even from me 🙂

As usual I shot footage of her dancing, and just finished uploading it to YouTube for your viewing pleasure. So here is Kristen accompanied by her dance partner Jay Henderson pulling off some amazing performances…








Awright, I better share this as well: at Showcase Kristen asked me to wear the official Doctor Who/Eleventh Doctor bow tie that she gave me for Christmas a few months ago.  Kristen thought it was a great new ...

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This is Kristen Bradford, the girl who I am more blessed than I possibly deserve to have in my life, along with her instructor Jay Henderson at this past weekend’s Spring Showcase in Roanoke, Virginia…

(Photo credit goes to Ryan Kegel, who along with his wife Sarah were two of the many who came to cheer Kristen on 🙂

Showcase is a twice-annual event hosted by the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Roanoke, Virginia. It’s a formal/gala event at the Hotel Roanoke where the students perform before a large audience. This was the third one that I have been at since we’ve been dating and it was easily the most electrifying one yet!

Okay, ’nuff from me. Y’all want to see Kristen dance. And I’m gonna happily oblige ya!

First up was a “graduation ceremony” of sorts. Ballroom dancing has different levels of skill and competition. At this Showcase, ...

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This past weekend was the fall Showcase of the Arthur Murray Dance Studio at the Hotel Roanoke (in umm… Roanoke. Virginia. I think…). It went on most of the day and well into the night and it was a blast! I saw ballroom dancing that boggled my gray matter bigtime.

Here are two of them for your viewing pleasure. The first is none other than my girlfriend Kristen, in what the announcer describes as her “really sexy little tiny costume”, performing a Mambo…

Now this next one, I really regret that I didn’t get the first part of it because I was… well, confused about what they were doing initially. And then the first notes of “Harry’s Wondrous World” from John Williams’ score for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone began playing.

What followed was a Viennese Waltz perhaps unlike any other, performed by Beth Craighead and Mohammed Taher ...

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