What's New? Dancing with the Stars 2010 Lineup:   •Buzz Aldrin - Legendary Astronaut ◦with Ashly Costa •Shannen Doherty - Beverly Hills and 90210 star ◦with Mark Ballas •Pamela Anderson - Model, Baywatch star ◦with Damian Whitewood •Evan Lysacek - Olympic gold medalist in men's figure skating ◦with Anna Trebunskaya •Niecy Nash - Comedienne and Host ◦with Louis Van Amstel •Nicole Scherzinger - Pussycat Dolls pop star ◦with Derek Hough •Chad Ochocinco - Former NFL star ◦with Cheryl Burke •Kate Gosselin - Reality show star ◦with Tony Dovolani •Erin Andrews - The ESPN sports reporter ◦with Maksim Chmerkovskiy •Aiden Turner - All My Children star ◦with Edyta Sliwinska •Jake Pavelka - The Bachelor star ◦with Chelsie Hightower Georgia Ambarian and Eric Luna of Fred Astaire Dance Studios  have been selected to represent the United States in the new reality TV show, Superstars of Dance. The international dance competition is produced by Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Fuller, the masterminds behind American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance. Lord of the Dance king, Michael Flatley has been selected to host show. Georgia Ambarian and Eric Luna dance at Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Cinco Bayou and hold three world and three U.S. cabaret championship titles. They also were the featured dancers with pop singer James Blount on an episode of Dancing with the Stars last season. “It’s nice that our hard work was noticed,” Eric Luna said. “Nigel Lythgoe himself called us to ask us if we’d participate.” Georgia Ambarian and Eric Luna are expert ballroom dancers specializing in cabaret dancing, a theatrical style that involves aerial movements and lifts. They’ll be competing against ballet dancers and even acrobats, depending on the contestants dance style the participating eight countries choose to send. “We’re just going to go and perform the best way we can,” Georgia Ambarian said. “You can’t think of it as a competition. You have to think of it as your personal best.” Superstars of Dance will premiere on January 4, 2009 at 8:00 PM ET on NBC. Dancing with the stars Tampa Bay What is “Dancing with the Stars Tampa Bay”? it’s Tampa Bay’s Celebrity Star Dancers partnering with Fred Astaire Dance Studios and Heartbeat International in a Ballroom Dance Competition with Interactive audience voting!!!!   Dancing with the Stars Tampa Bay is patterned after the amazingly successful  ABC television program, which is about to begin its seventh season this fall. This elegant event is setting the stage for not only an evening of fantastic dancing, but as well, a true coming together of the who's who in Tampa Bay. Our exclusive partnership with Fred Astaire Dance Studios Tampa Bay allows our Celebrity Star Dancers the opportunity to be paired with a professional ballroom dance  instructor who will make certain that they dazzle the crowd!  The Star Dancers  are local community celebrities, personalities and leaders  who  will capture the crowd with grace, glitz and glamour. Each of the ten dance teams, the Celebrity and their professional partner from the 3 Fred Astaire Dance studios  in Pinellas county, will perform one ballroom dance of their choice.  Performances will be judged by National and International Ballroom  Competition Adjudicators combined with the audience votes. At this year’s event  American Rhythm Champions, Tony Dovolani and Elena Grinenko, both of whom are banner participants in the  hit ABC series Dancing With The Stars will perform some dazzling routines. The steps our Celebrity Star Dancers take on the dance floor are representative of the many steps that will  be taken by Heartbeat International in improving  the quality of life for those in need, ultimately making both our local and global community a better place to live. We at Heartbeat International and all of those that we serve, thank you in advance for supporting the 2008 Inaugural Presentation of Dancing with the Stars  Tampa Bay November 6th at the beautiful Renaissance Vinoy Resort located in downtown St. Petersburg! We at Fred Astaire Dance Studios in Palm Harbor would like to wish the best of luck to our two Tampa Bay Celebrities competing in this year’s event Mr. J Paul Pepin of Pepin Distributing and Ms Kathryn Garcia of Get Wet Swim School partnered with two of our finest instructors  Ms. Kelsey Koehler & Mr. Martin Mata.   Of course we only wish the best to all the other Celebrities and their professional partners at the 2 St.Petersburg Fred Astaire Dance Studios.                                    J.Paul Pepin                                          Kathryn Garcia              of                                                               of   Pepin Distributing                              Get Wet Swim School Look at this Classic video of the Master Himself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOBdQykKQY Watch This Amazing Video Clip! Heather Mill's appearance on Dancing With The Stars has generated a lot of discussion about dancing with disabilities. In this uplifting video clip, you can watch a dancer give it his all - with only one leg. Watch Tony Dovolani and Elena Grinenko Work The Rumba! Tony Dovolani and Elena Grinenko's sensual rumba showcase performance at the Ohio Star Ball 2006 is now on YouTube. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl4-hHio2nE (around the 4:18 mark). Also on this clip is an electrifying performance by Fred Astaire dance champions Jackie Josephs and Jesse Desoto (around 2:30). Enjoy!   As many of you know, the partnership between Fred Astaire Dance Studios and Variety  "The Children's Charity" has continued to grow. At this years national competition in Florida, Variety of Orlando was able to share its mobility story about helping children at a local elementary school thanks to donations made by Fred Astaire owners, teachers and students at last years Mix and Match competition. Variety of Orlando used the money donated by Fred Astaire Dance Studios to purchase the automatic  door opener for Winter Springs Elementary. Abigail, Emily, their grandparents, sisters and mother came to this years competition and presented Jack Rothweiler with a thank you card from all the children at the school. After the presentation, an anonymous dancer generously donated $10,000 to Variety of Orlando to help more children in need! Variety of Orlando and Variety of the U.S. are incredibly grateful to Jack Rothweiler, Pahjmon Lipsey and  all the students and dancers from Fred Astaire Dance Studios who helped make this wish a reality for Emily and Abigail. The generosity of everyone associated with Fred Astaire Dance Studios humbles and overwhelms us.  Thank you!