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val will dance the salsa
to “Dirty Dancing.” Each
said, in all seriousness,
their rivalry is all fun and
games, but each wants to
out-do the other.
“There can only be one
E,” both said fiercely to
one another during their
third practice Wednesday
night.
Reise said he doesn’t
have a lot of dancing ex-
perience, though he has
participated in some yoga
and a couple of dance
classes. Sandoval, on the
other hand, has a history
of dance experience. She
said she participated in
“Stardust” at Hermiston
High School as a student
there and also did a bit of
tap and quite a bit of hip
hop — her specialty.
The E rivalry wasn’t
the only one in the works.
John Wambeke, who will
be performing the foxtrot
to “Pink Panther,” said he
was going to make it his
mission to at least beat
Dave Smith, who will be
swing dancing to “Jail-
house Rock.”
“Oh yes, I have to beat
Dave,” he said. “There is
definitely some competi-
tion there.”
Wambeke said he has a
bit of dancing experience
under his belt. He said
he and his wife, Jordawn
Wambeke, who competed
in the first year of Danc-
ing with the Hermiston
Stars under a different
name, Sophie, go out and
dance the country two-
step from time to time. So
it shouldn’t be that diffi-
cult, he said.
“But it’s all fun,” he
said, adding that practices
always go by quickly.
Smith said he doesn’t
have a lot of dancing ex-
perience, but he brings
his athleticism to the ta-
ble. He said his dancing
partner, Dani Dunmire,
MAEGAN MURRAY PHOTO
Dancing with the Hermiston Stars contestant Erica Sandoval learns a few steps of her ballroom dance routine with the help of
her partner, Brian Gonzales.
If You Go
Dancing with the Hermiston
Stars begins at 7 p.m. today
in the Hermiston High School
auditorium. Doors open at 6:30
p.m. Ticket prices at the door
are $35 for adults and $20 for
children younger than 18.
noticed he had quite a bit
of energy and that he was
strong, but he has diffi-
culty memorizing specif-
ic moves, so they played
to his strengths.
“The hardest challenge
was remembering the
foot work and timing,” he
said. “We do a lot more
acrobatics, if that is fair
to say.”
Dunmire joked that,
because they are doing so
many technical moves, her
partner was going to drop
her, but Smith assured her
that would never happen.
“It might not look pret-
ty, but you will never hit
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laugh.
The show’s two other
contenders, Kristi Smalley
and Dawn Kennison-Ker-
rigan, said they don’t have
very much dance experi-
ence to their credit, but
they are also going to play
to their strengths.
Smalley said she did
a year of dance back in
high school, but she will
rely greatly on her part-
ner, Seth Ward, to show
her the works when they
dance the waltz to “Cin-
derella” tonight.
“Because of Seth, it
is going really well,” she
said. “I now have such a
respect for people who do
ballroom dance. This is an
art.”
Smalley said the au-
dience can look forward
to at least one grand lift,
which makes her feel like
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“It feels like I am on top
of the world,” she said.
Kennison-Kerrigan,
who will be dancing the
Charleston to “Chicago,”
is relying on her stamina
built from running and
doing aerobics as a tool
to outdo others. She said
the dancing may be a bit
of a workout, but it isn’t
too bad.
She has struggled with
some of the steps, howev-
er.
She said the Charles-
ton basic step, in partic-
ular, which is a twisting
fast movement of the
feet, was challenging her
in Wednesday’s night’s
rehearsal.
“That’s been the hard-
est thing, but I know the
Charleston kick,” she
said. “We do that in aer-
obics.”
Everything else, how-
ever, has been a blast,
she said, even though her
dance is different from
her competitors’ in that
she and her partner, An-
dre Farque, spend most of
their performance apart.
“This dance is a little
harder to teach because
the partners are separated
for most of the dance,”
Farque said.
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Sunday Worship Services
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Dave Andrus, Pastor
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567-8441
555 SW 11th, Hermiston
567-9497
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Sunday School - 9:30 AM
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6:00 pm
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SUNDAY WORSHIP 10:45 AM
SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:30 AM
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567-8241
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