Dancing With The Stars Pros Help Raise Thousands For Covenant Hospice
This past weekend, Dancing With The Stars pros Tony Dovolani, Karina Smirnoff, Tristan MacManus, Val Chmerkovski, Oksana Dmytrenko , Sasha Farber, and Emma Slater helped to raise over $12,000 dollars for Covenant Hospice at the 5th annual ‘Life’s a Dance’ event in Pensacola, Florida. You can view a few segments of the event and some coverage at ABC3 here and here.
PureDWTS reader Gail sent us some personal coverage as well. Below is Tristan with the ladies of the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Pensacola. Gail tells us Tristan was sunburned, but, he was still in fine dancing form as you can see.
Fan Angela Anderson also attended the event. She’s been posting some awesome video coverage at her You Tube page of some of the dances. For instance, below is Oksana and Val!
However, it was not all work and no play for our pros!! There was some time for relaxing and fun in the Florida sun too. For instance, Emma Slater has been posting some breathtaking photos of she and Sasha enjoying some beach time. Be sure to take a look. They are beautiful and the white sand is so inviting. I am so in the mood to go to Florida again now. Who’s with me?
Special thanks to Gail and Angela for all the fantastic video coverage of this event. xx
Yay for Karina and all of them for helping to raise the funds!!
I’m the one who was lucky enough to be there (and take the shaky video 😉
I tried to get a video of Karina and Tony’s waltz and realized later my camera was turned on! But here’s a more competent videographer’s clip of Karina and Tony’s Tango:
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Wow I just realized I DID manage to make a close-up version of the above Tony/Karina tango. As soon as I get it uploaded to Youtube, I’ll come back and give a link.
Here’s the video of that Karina/Tony tango from the same show in Pensacola Saturday night:
Thanks so much, Gail2! 🙂