{"id":3893,"date":"2018-11-02T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.235.7.55\/?post_type=news-items&#038;p=3893"},"modified":"2022-11-05T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T18:23:07","slug":"meet-the-dancers-angel-lavery","status":"publish","type":"news-items","link":"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/meet-the-dancers-angel-lavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Dancers: Angel Lavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\"><p><em>Veteran dancer says she\u2019s \u2018having a blast\u2019 learning new style<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Angel Lavery is no stranger to the dance world, having been a member of the San Francisco 49ers cheerleading squad and now co-founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balletedgedetroit.com\/\">Ballet Edge Detroit<\/a>. But she\u2019s still finding ballroom dancing to be a new challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s actually very different, it\u2019s like I\u2019m on a different planet,\u201d she says. \u201cI realize that ballroom is a very different format from ballet. You have to follow the leader. You sort of dance around the whole room. There\u2019s not necessarily one side where the audience is, it\u2019s sort of a 360-degree fishbowl. It\u2019s a very different feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angel is one of six dancers who will be completing in our 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitdancing.org\/\">Dancing With the Detroit Stars\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0event on November 17 at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>Lavery and her partner, Ryan Beck from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arthurmurray.com\/locations\">Arthur Murray Dance Studio<\/a>, have been working on a samba routine, which she describes as \u201csomething more upbeat and fast and energetic.\u201d Ryan choreographed and Angel is learning the dance. They\u2019ve been training since mid-September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of fun,\u201d Lavery says. \u201cRyan is very patient. We kind of laugh a lot because we goof up, try again, goof up \u2026 but then we eventually get it. It\u2019s very different from anything I\u2019ve done, and I\u2019m having a blast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lavery grew up in San Francisco and joined the 49ers Gold Rush Cheerleaders squad as a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, staying on for two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a lot of work,\u201d she says. \u201cI think that people have a misconception about NFL cheerleading. I think we practiced six hours at a time on Saturdays, and then on Sundays, we were at the games from dawn to dusk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having moved to Michigan about nine years ago, she currently works as a math teacher at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills. Angel launched Ballet Edge Detroit in 2017 with Erica Marshall; the group rehearses at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christinasadultballet.com\/\">Christina\u2019s Adult Ballet<\/a>\u00a0in Farmington Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Lavery says she\u2019s excited for the event but she\u2019s not treating it as a competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019m nervous,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m treating it as something fun and it\u2019s for a good cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To support Angel in her fundraising goal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.southoaklandshelter.org\/dancing\/Member\/MyPage\/2328155\/Angel-Lavery\">click here<\/a>\u00a0to have your ticket purchase or donation\u00a0 count to her page today!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3894,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news_categories":[121],"class_list":["post-3893","news-items","type-news-items","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_categories-events"],"acf":{"photo_gallery":{"gallery":[[]]}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meet the Dancers: Angel Lavery - Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/meet-the-dancers-angel-lavery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet the Dancers: Angel Lavery - Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Veteran dancer says she\u2019s \u2018having a blast\u2019 learning new style Angel Lavery is no stranger to the dance world, having been a member of the San Francisco 49ers cheerleading squad and now co-founder of\u00a0Ballet Edge Detroit. 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