{"id":77833,"date":"2024-02-28T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=77833"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:00:36","slug":"dancing-together-for-dsnwk-set-for-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=77833","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Together for DSNWK set for Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>This article has been reposted due to a server error which deleted the original\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By RAEGAN NEUFELD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Tiger Media Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What started as a class project has turned into an annual event that not only raises money, but also helps create friendships between two local organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dancing Together for DSNWK brings together members of the Styles Dance Centre and Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas. The event will feature performances from SDC dancers and individuals from DSNWK, including a finale with approximately 200 participants from both groups on stage. Attendees can purchase raffle tickets before the performance and all of the proceeds will go to DSNWK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will begin with the raffle at 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Beach\/Schmidt Performing Arts Center, and the performance will start at 5 p.m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to SDC owner Alyssa Dechant, the event started as a Leadership 310 project for her former assistant, a student at Fort Hays State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe fell in love with the show and fell in love with DSNWK,\u201d she said. \u201cIt just continued and it\u2019s something we all look forward to every single year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The connections formed during practices and the performance are meaningful for both organizations and last from year to year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe reason why we\u2019ve continued it is because it\u2019s a great community activity for our individuals at DSNWK to participate in, but they\u2019ve also become family with the Styles Dance Center competition teams,\u201d DSNWK Director of Programs and Services Sara Biggs said. \u201cWhen people walk in, the dancers know them from year to year. It\u2019s a great opportunity to come together and mix with a different group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proceeds from Dancing Together funds DSNWK\u2019s annual Spring Fiesta, a \u2018fun day\u2019 event with a dance, food and games for individuals and staff members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe serve 18 counties, so we have people all the way out at the Colorado and Nebraska borders,\u201d DSNWK Director of Development Steve Keil said. \u201cThis is the one time a year for a lot of them to see old friends. It\u2019s really a special day and the money from SDC helps us put that on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Sunday\u2019s performance will ultimately be an opportunity to support DSNWK, attendees will get something out of it, too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity to see inclusion,\u201d Keil said. \u201cPeople with developmental disabilities and kids that don\u2019t have a disability coming together to create something really cool and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dechant shared a similar sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think people will leave feeling happy and feeling joy,\u201d she said. \u201cTo watch the DSNWK individuals with the dancers is so inspiring. I think the world is filled with a lot of ugly things right now, so when you get moments like this it brings nothing but pure joy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article has been reposted due to a server error which deleted the original\u00a0post By RAEGAN NEUFELD Tiger Media Network What started as a class&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":77834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,11],"tags":[15618,14226],"class_list":["post-77833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-news","category-news","tag-dsnswk","tag-raegan-neufeld"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Practice-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77835,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77833\/revisions\/77835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}