
{"id":12000,"date":"2010-08-19T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=12000"},"modified":"2010-08-19T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:53:42","slug":"local-dancers-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/08\/19\/local-dancers-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Local dancers advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Henry Gargan, Staff Writer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carrboro native Ryan Gaunt is slated to compete in the semifinal round of NBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Got Talent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d next week. His act, titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153AscenDance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a fusion of climbing and dance and features his fianc\u00c3\u00a9 and climbing partner, Isabel von Rittberg.<\/p>\n<p>The duo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s journey began with an audition in Portland, which earned them a trip to Las Vegas, where they qualified for the quarterfinals. Gaunt and Rittberg performed live in Hollywood on July 20 and advanced to the semifinals, which will air on Aug. 24 at 9 p.m. The results show will be broadcast the following day. A $1 million prize, as well as a year-long booking in Las Vegas, await the winner of the NBC competition, which is closing out its fifth season on the air. Other popular acts will embark on a nationwide tour in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Gaunt, who graduated from Chapel Hill High School in 1998, now lives in Berkeley, Calif. with von Rittberg, founder of the AscenDance project. He has been a dedicated climber for a little over a decade and joined the act with von Rittberg in 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Gaunt took sewing and advanced sewing classes during his time at Chapel Hill High and designed and made the act\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s costumes. He now owns his own line of urban climbing apparel, Aer\u00c3\u00a9 Fashion.<br \/>\nClips of AscenDance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performances on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Got Talent,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d some of which have been viewed upwards of 100,000 times, can be found on YouTube. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrboro native Ryan Gaunt is slated to compete in the semifinal round of NBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Got Talent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d next week. His act, titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153AscenDance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a fusion of climbing and dance and features his fianc\u00c3\u00a9 and climbing partner, Isabel von Rittberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12002,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000\/revisions\/12002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}