{"id":133074,"date":"2026-03-08T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:26:23","slug":"erie-dancers-take-center-court-at-cleveland-cavaliers-game-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133074\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Dancers take Center Court at Cleveland Cavaliers Game | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"LITTLE DANCE STUDIO CAVS IMAGE.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Before the Cleveland Cavaliers tipped off against the Boston Celtics at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, dancers from Erie\u2019s Little Dance Studio had a moment of their own under the arena lights.<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 studio members \u2014 including performers, family and friends \u2014 traveled to the sold\u2011out game to take part in the pregame performance.<\/p>\n<p>Dancers buzzed with energy and nerves as they prepared backstage, channeling it all into a bright, upbeat Latin jazz routine. Performers of all ages took the court together, representing Erie while celebrating the studio\u2019s milestone 100th season of dance education.<\/p>\n<p>For many, stepping onto an NBA court was a once\u2011in\u2011a\u2011lifetime moment shared with their community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was absolutely electric. That was so much fun,\u201d said adult jazz dancer Shelby Malone after the performance. \u201cI\u2019m so blessed and fortunate to be able to continue my dancing with a lot of people that I love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Studio leaders say the opportunity was the perfect way to mark their 100\u2011year anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the Cleveland Cavaliers tipped off against the Boston Celtics at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, dancers from Erie\u2019s Little&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[61560,9512,17190,61559,136,138,61556,137,61558,4794,61557],"class_list":["post-133074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-100th-anniversary","tag-boston-celtics","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dance-education","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-little-dance-studio","tag-erie-news","tag-latin-jazz-routine","tag-nba","tag-rocket-mortgage-fieldhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}