{"id":142303,"date":"2025-10-17T16:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/?p=142303"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:31:40","slug":"making-moves-on-the-dance-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/uncategorized\/making-moves-on-the-dance-floor","title":{"rendered":"Making Moves On The Dance Floor!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This week’s Best Of All Moment comes from one of our adult participants, Madeline! This past week, Madeline competed in her first Ballroom Dancing competition and received the “Top Student” award for all of her hard work over the past few months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madeline is proud to say that she competes in five different dances: Cha Cha, Swing, Rumba, Bachata, and Waltz…But Cha Cha is her favorite! Her favorite part of the competition was getting her award, however she stated that: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“ I am so proud of Alex {her dance partner}. He did amazing!” <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We are all so proud of Madeline and her dedication to practicing and competing! Madeline brings her spunky energy and kind heart every time she is in the playhouse. Madeline is currently enrolled in GiGi U and is a wonderful peer, student, friend and leader. She especially loves it when the fitness portion of the class includes time to show off her dance moves! We can’t wait to see what she does next! Go Madeline! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This week’s Best Of All Moment comes from one of our adult participants, Madeline! This past week, Madeline competed in her first Ballroom Dancing competition and received the “Top Student” award for all of her hard work over the past few months. Madeline is proud to say that she competes in five different dances: Cha…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1525,1526,5,1],"tags":[58,111,1553,22,23,62],"class_list":["post-142303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-adults-with-down-syndrome","category-community","category-free-programs","category-friends","category-uncategorized","tag-bestofall","tag-freeprograms","tag-dance","tag-down-syndrome","tag-gigis-playhouse","tag-hoffman-estates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}