{"id":26480,"date":"2017-02-11T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/stayin-alive-dance-for-heart\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:25:38","slug":"stayin-alive-dance-for-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/stayin-alive-dance-for-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Stayin Alive! Dance for Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 Kentridge-area performers from many diverse backgrounds stepped it up for Stayin Alive! Dance for Heart &#8211; an entertainment-filled charity event that supported the American Heart Association on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth annual show at a packed Kentridge High School Performing Arts Center raised $5,000 for the AHA, according to Denise Wiskow, a sports medicine teacher, coach and Yoga Club advisor at Kentridge who has been directing the show since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a great opportunity for all students to show their talent and to work together as a team to raise heart disease awareness to the community,&rdquo; Wiskow said. &ldquo;The performers practice for months, and the show grows bigger every year. &#8230; This show brings all different cultures and all of the dance groups together at Kentridge. What a great way for all of the performers to bond.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The entertainment lineup included performances from the student-portrayed Bee Gees; the Chatelaines; Sparkles Cheerleaders (special needs kids); gymnastics and multicultural dancers from K-pop to hula; the Yoga Club; Steppers and Ballers; Folklorico; the Little Charger Preschoolers; break dancers; and others.<\/p>\n<p>The program was part of the school&rsquo;s devotion to Heart Health Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentridge entertainers raise $5,000 for AHA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":26497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26480"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}