Dancing With Boulder’s Stars

BOULDER – Six Boulderites and six local dance instructors will team up for the first Dancing With Boulder’s Stars based on ABC’s popular Dancing With the Stars television show.

Alice Swanson is organizing the fundraiser to be held Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Boulder Theater to benefit the YWCA of Boulder County.

The dancers are Richard Foy of Communication Arts; Stephen Schaller, ERA Tradewinds Real Estate; Dan Powers, Boulder Chamber of Commerce; Wendy Reynolds, Vectra Bank; and Teresa Szczurek, author and president of Boulder-based Technology and Management Solutions.

Instructors will be Pat Connelly, director of the Blue Moon Dance Company in Boulder, and Julius Reinante also of Blue Moon; Suzanne Gerleit and Carl Gerleit, Casa Blanca Dance Studio, Boulder; Amanda Chestnutt, One Boulder Fitness; and Tom Masterson, Danceophile Studio, Boulder.

Swanson said the contestants will perform one dance, and the audience will view video clips of various stages of the rehearsal process.

 “I’m a big fan of the show (Dancing With the Stars), and I thought this would be a good fundraising event,” Swanson said.

Swanson stepped down as executive vice president of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce in January to become an independent consultant offering individual coaching and group workshops for graduating seniors on the job-search process, plus work on special projects including the chamber’s annual Esprit Entrepreneur event.

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