Posted March 12, 2006

2006 Cadillac Challenge of the Americas - Page 9

Freestyle Designer Terry Ciotti-Gallo Gets her Inspiration from TV Show: Dancing With the Stars

Terry Ciotti-Gallo, who has also participated as the creator of soundtracks for the BCRF fundraiser all five years, put the music together for four of the night’s rides, including the winners of the Pas de Deux (Team USA Purina Mills), the winners of the Team Quadrille (Team International), the exhibition Pas de Deux (Balkenhol/Morse), and the Team Quadrille for Team USA. “I listen to my riders and what they would like to do,” Ciotti-Gallo explained.

“For the Americans, we changed the music about a week-and-a-half ago. I was inspired by something I had seen on Dancing With the Stars,” she laughed, noting the well-known TV show on ballroom dancing competition. She saw a performance danced to Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy, which cemented her track for the Americans. “I said, ‘that is it!’ because we had wanted to do a country theme and I was looking for an anchor tune and it wasn’t coming to me. Then I saw that on TV and I said perfect, that’s my centerpiece and the rest was easy.”