By Kate Jonuska
While the Dancing With The Stars hit television show may have wrapped for the season, our local celebrities are only now dusting off their dancing shoes in the quest for a mirror ball trophy. This Sunday, news anchors will come out from behind their desks, disc jockeys will go off air and two athletes — including an Olympian Pentathlete and a Denver Nuggets cheerleader — will abandon their chosen sports during the Dancing With Colorado’s Stars Showcase and Competition at the City Auditorium.
“It is one thing to see them on television or hear them on the radio,” says event organizer James Stowell of USA Dance-Pikes Peak, who hosts the fundraiser in honor of Springs Rescue Mission and the soldiers and families of Fort Carson. “Now you will get to see them bring out their glamorous, romantic sides or their fun, flirty and sassy sides. It will be an afternoon of spectacular entertainment.”
“I think it’s going to be fascinating and hilarious at the same time,” says Heather Skold of KRDO News Channel 13. Her partner, Spencer Harger of N’Vision studios, reminds her to relax her nerves as they step jauntily around the floor, practicing their routine of East Coast swing and samba. When he grabs her hands for a spin followed by a slide through his legs, however, her smile beams with pure enjoyment.
“I have a renewed appreciation for what they do on the show. You don’t know all what goes into that until you walk in their shoes,” she says, lifting her foot to illustrate the unique, somewhat challenging shape of the high-heel dance pump. In addition to the shoes, the wardrobe, slinkier and more glamorous than her usual newscast ensembles, has taken some getting used to — but it’s all the better to showcase the anchor’s impressive high kicks.
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