{"id":102255,"date":"2015-09-21T13:13:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/?p=102255"},"modified":"2024-10-01T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:43:26","slug":"get-down-with-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/gigisplayhousechicagoevents\/gigisplayhousechicagogetdownwithdowsyndrome\/get-down-with-down-syndrome","title":{"rendered":"Get Down With Down Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready to Get Down?\u00a0 Dance Masters Jo and Julia, two volunteers with 24 years of dancing experience between them, choreographed and taught a dance routine to our teen participants this summer.\u00a0\u00a0 The teens received an invitation to dance at St. Andrew\u2019s Palooza on Saturday to show off their cool dance moves!\u00a0 They really rocked it!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teen Dancers at St  Andrew Palooza Sept 2015\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oHW_lATP1JQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We asked Jo and Julia to tell us a little more about their volunteer experience at GiGi\u2019s and dancing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell Us About Yourself?<a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/files\/2015\/09\/Teen-Dance-collage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-102257\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/files\/2015\/09\/Teen-Dance-collage-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Teen Dance collage\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/files\/2015\/09\/Teen-Dance-collage-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/files\/2015\/09\/Teen-Dance-collage-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jo:\u00a0 Hi! I\u2019m 15 years old.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m a sophomore at St. Ignatius and I\u2019m on the dance team and lacrosse team there.\u00a0 I have one little sister.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been dancing since I was really little and I LOVE it!<\/p>\n<p>Julia:\u00a0 Hi!\u00a0 I am a sophomore at St. Ignatius.\u00a0 I have an older sister, brother-in-law and a niece.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always loved being a dancer and now it\u2019s fun to be a teacher too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did you start dancing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jo:\u00a0 I started dancing when I was about 3 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Julia:\u00a0 I started dancing when I was three years old too!\u00a0 Since then, I have done ballet, hip-hop, tap, modern, jazz, and Irish dance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your favorite style of dance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jo: My favorite style of dance is either modern or ballet.\u00a0 Ballet, probably, because I\u2019ve been doing it since I was little and I love it.\u00a0 And I love modern because it\u2019s very different than ballet and very fun!<\/p>\n<p>Julia:\u00a0 My favorite style of dance is ballet.\u00a0 Ballet is what I have been doing the longest and it has always been the most fun.\u00a0 There is so much you can do with it and so many ways to interpret it so it tells a different story every time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your favorite part of teaching the teens to dance this summer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jo:\u00a0 My favorite part of teaching the teens this summer was getting to meet new people and work with them and get to know them.<\/p>\n<p>Julia:\u00a0 My favorite part of teaching the teens dance is watching how much energy they bring.\u00a0 Every week they are more excited than the last and always eager to learn new steps or show us what they have been working on.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You can see the teens, Jo, and Julia dance at our \u201cGet Down With Down Syndrome\u201d Dance-A-Thon on Saturday, October 3<sup>rd<\/sup> from 2:00 \u2013 5:00pm at the Ravenswood United Church of Christ, 2050 W. Pensacola Ave, Chicago, IL\u00a0 60618.\u00a0 Click here for more info or to register!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>#getdownwithdownsyndrome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready to Get Down?\u00a0 Dance Masters Jo and Julia, two volunteers with 24 years of dancing experience between them, choreographed and taught a dance routine to our teen participants this summer.\u00a0\u00a0 The teens received an invitation to dance at St. Andrew\u2019s Palooza on Saturday to show off their cool dance moves!\u00a0 They really&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":102256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gigisplayhousechicagogetdownwithdowsyndrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/chicago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}