{"id":111634,"date":"2026-01-09T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111634\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:30:19","slug":"youth-american-grand-prix-brings-world-class-dance-talent-to-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111634\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth American Grand Prix brings world-class dance talent to Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Hundreds of talented dancers are in Tampa this week for the \u201cYouth American Grand Prix.\u201d <\/p>\n

The dance competition is known as the \u201cAmerican Idol of Dance\u201d and holds auditions and workshops in 19 international locations and 29 in the United States.<\/p>\n

Dancers between the ages of nine and 19 compete over several days. For younger dancers, it\u2019s a chance to get scholarships to summer intensives or full-time programs. For older dancers, it\u2019s an opportunity to help them get a job. Everyone gets to learn from experienced judges.<\/p>\n

Naha Oliveros is a ten-year-old dancer from Tampa. She said this year, she\u2019s just here for the experience.<\/p>\n

“Well, I just love about this experience is that I can meet other people and see how other dances from other places is really cool to see,” she said. <\/p>\n

The competition runs through Sunday and is free for the public to watch. You can also buy tickets to Saturday\u2019s gala performance featuring ballet stars from around the world.<\/p>\n

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New mental health programs making an impact in Florida<\/p>\n

Florida Behavioral Health Association’s Scott Burgess shared<\/a> with Tampa Bay 28 Anchor Wendy Ryan the successes of new initiatives being tested across Florida.<\/p>\n

Florida Behavioral Health Association Chairman discusses success of new mental health programs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Hundreds of talented dancers are in Tampa this week for the \u201cYouth American Grand Prix.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,7558,276,135,3670,137,136,208,56854,56855,56856],"class_list":["post-111634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-dance","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts","tag-world-class-dance-talent","tag-youth-american-grand-prix","tag-youth-dance-competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}