If you didn't know, Megan is on the Star Dancer's Dance Team, there are 3 levels and she is on the Elementary Team. She is having a blast! This is her 2nd. year on the team and she has just grown so much as a dancer. We love to watch her dance! It's amazing!!!
This past Saturday, we had our 1st. competition of the season. ( We will have 3 more - we are so excited!)
This was the "Winter Dance Classic" hosted by the Leander Bluebelle ( my alumni, can I get a shout out..."Woo Hoo" Lol) at LHS. It was a full day event ( as all of them are) We arrived dressed in makeup, hair and in first costume ( hip hop) at 8 am. We were there a little over 11 hours, but it was worth every minute!
(Please excuse my pictures as they are out of order...)
Our girls did not perform their first dance - Hip Hop routine until in noon hour. We had lunch in the cafeteria about 11ish and then headed back to the dressing room at 11:30 for freshing up and warm up. While the girls went with Ms. Sadia to warm up, us mommies headed into the gym to (try, as it was Packed!) get a seat.
Now it was time, we could see our girls "on deck" eeeehhhh, I always get butterflys for them. I don't know why. lol As the dance before them ended our girls caught ready to enter the floor. We all started cheering for them. Our favorite saying for them is "Sparkle Girls" They love it!
Let me just say, they looked so freaking adorable in their hip hop outfit. As the song started "Lil' Miss Swagger" and the girls caught their attitude going with the dance, the crowd went wild, they loved it. OMG, they rocked that dance, they all did so good. Megan made me so proud, she is just a sweet little girl that loves to smile, and just seeing her out there with her little pucker lips and her sassy face ( that fits the dance of course) looked so cute! I loved it!
Next up, was Lyrical. We had about a hour in between this dance and the previous to get ready to fix makeup and hair. I love this lyrical outfit, its so flowy and I love the color blue. So pretty! It was time for them to go get ready to practice and warm up, so again we headed back to the gym to get our seats to watch this dance.
The girls came onto the floor and danced so beautifully to this lyrical routine. It is such a pretty dance. They all did a wonderful job!
The last dance was a pom routine to "Let's Mambo". Again we had a hour to freshen up, re-do hair and have them practice and warm up. This dance is so fun. Megan loves to dance with poms. It's a crowd pleaser for sure.
This dance we had platforms for the girls to each have a turn in the dance at some point to get on so that was a lot of fun. They all did so good! The crowd loved it. All the different color poms looked so pretty out on the floor too.
Well, after the last routine was performed it was almost 3 p.m. and awards wasn't until 6:30p.m. so the girls had a lot of time to relax, sit in the stands as a team and watch all the dances from different studios.
That is one thing about dance competitions, it is a full all day event, but Megan loves it as well as I.
It was a lot of fun watching the other studios dance, watching solos, duets and seeing all the different dances that were chorographed.
Right before they were going to announce the awards they have all the dancers come to the middle of the gym and they turn on music and they all dance. It was so fun watching Megan just get out there and let loose. So so cute!!! After the competition was over my friend Laura and I took Megan and her daughter and two other girls from the team to Rosa's Cafe for dinner. It was after 9:30p.m. and we were all hungry so it was nice to get something to eat and just relax. A lot of the Star Dancer's were there too so the girls got to sit and eat and hang out. It was a lot of fun!
Awards time.... All of the Star Dancers, E, I and J teams placed awesome at the competition!!! Here is what our Elementary team came home with.
-1st. place Pom routine
-1st. place Hip Hop routine
-1st. place Lyrical routine
-Audience Appeal for judges choice for Hip Hop routine
-Outstanding Showmanship for Pom and Hip Hop routines
-Outstanding Presentation for Hip Hop routines
-Overall Academic Award for Elementary Team with a grade point average of 95%
We were so proud of Megan and to the Star Dancer E-Team! Awesome job girls for the first competition of the season!
We can not wait for the next competition that will be here in two weeks!
Happy Blogging,
Julie
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