Dancing with the Fredericksburg Stars

Ten Fredericksburg-area community leaders paired with professional dancers from Strictly Ballroom Dance Studio will compete August 17 in Dancing with the Fredericksburg Stars.

Proceeds from the event will be used to endow the UMW Performing Arts in the Community Scholarship for regional students who excel in music, theatre or dance.

The event will be hosted by Kevin Bartram, director of the UMW Philharmonic Orchestra, and Penny Wack, disc jockey at country music radio station Thunder 104.5. 

Dori Eglevsky, community volunteer, Patrick A’Hearn, associate artistic director of the Riverside Center, and Corey Von Ginkel, member of the National Dance Council of America, will judge the performers and determine the Best in Show.  Audience members will be provided ballots to cast their votes for the People’s Choice Award winner.

The ten community dancers are:

• J. Martin Bass, retired lawyer and judge;
  
• Caressa Cameron-Jackson, Miss America 2010;
  
• Mary Katherine Greenlaw, mayor of the City of Fredericksburg;
  
• Richard V. Hurley, president of UMW;
  
• Ellen Killough, president and CEO of the Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center;
  
• Richmond McDaniel, senior vice president of CBRE;
  
• Fred M. Rankin III, president and CEO of Mary Washington Healthcare;
• Susan Garnett Spears, president of the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce;
  
• Deirdre Powell White, president and CEO of DPW Training & Associates, LLC;
  
• Bill Young, CEO of Virginia Partners Bank.