Dance Competitions

I know it has been a lot of dance pictures lately but I have been super busy.  My girls have been to two competitions.  Jump was a very high caliber competition/workshop with amazing judges and instructors, Melanie Moore the 8th season winner of So You Think You Can Dance, Nick Lazzarini (1st SYTYCD winner), Kenny Wormald, star of the new Footloose, Mia Michaels, and others! It was a long, fun weekend!  Ashlynn won a scholarship for outstanding performance during the classes.  They had classes for 5-6 hours on Friday and Saturday.  The competition (where they only competed one of their dances) was Saturday morning.  Right before the last class Saturday night Ashlynn came out (during break) and collapsed on the floor by me.  I wanted to leave and just skip the last class but she adamantly protested.  Kaylie was done.  For some strange reason I let her stay and do it.  She has really grown into dance this year loving it.  During the last part of the night (about 9:30) Kaylie was curled up in a ball moaning from exhaustion and I think a little bit of dehydration so I packed them up and left.  It was right after that when it was announced that AShlynn won a scholarship.  I'm thinking it was for ballet but when Gerti gets us the certificate I will let you know.

During the competition I was reminded again at how lucky my girls are to be able to do dance.  Almost EVERY single team wore what I consider immodest clothing.  ALL of the Utah dance teams had their girls dancing in sports bras or other extremely revealing clothing.  Only our team and one or two other teams from Idaho had their girls covered.  They would not be dancing if we didn't live where we are living.  Thank You Gerti and Sam.  So grateful.

Pictures are from the competition Dance Factor

We were not allowed to take pictures at JUMP.

Ashlynn was in heaven.  The older girls lifted her up and she thought it was something quite fantastic.  I failed to mention that Kaylie's Paris dance won first place at Dance Factor.

Dance: Reeds Gym

This past weekend my girls had a dance performance at Reed's Gym in Pocatello.  Not a competition but a practice performance.  Kaylie's Paris Dance isn't finished yet but for the most part it is looking great.  There are no pictures of it because the ones I was able to get were not very good at all.  Ashlynn looks great in her Jazz dance BUT as a team they need to bring it together more.  It's still pretty rough.  Surprisingly their hip hop dance looks pretty good.  Kaylie's team has had a hard time connecting with their Sailing Home Dance and some of the mom's are kind of negative about it.  I agree it is missing that "umph" BUT I felt the girls performed it the best tonight.  They took the sail away which I miss but Kaylie now has a special part.  We will see.  Over all the night was pretty good.

Though the dance was not clean as a team I think that Ashlynn looks BEAUTIFUL!

Ashlynn's kick here looks amazing!

Look at the faces she is making.  I was surprised because until now she has NEVER done faces.

SO Cute!

Ashlynn is suppose to have a lot of sass in hip hop but let's face it, she just doesn't have it in her.  Look at that innocent sweet smile.  I hope she never has sass :)

I love Kaylie's Arabesque.  It's beautiful.



BEUATIFUL her eye's are gorgeous.

 

 

Love that I can do this with my girls and that dance links them together.  Some day I hope they do a duet together.

Ashlynn's Dance Practice.

Ashlynn's dance class.  I'm so glad Gerti allowed me to capture a glimpse of my daughter's afternoons.

During their break.  Little Girls.