This past weekend our competition team was in Logan at Utah Dance Fest. It was an exciting weekend with a blooper or two but our dancers dealt with the obstacles with grace and put it some fantastic performances.
Friday night our Dance Concepts dancers made an impressive showing. Tessa Homer was awarded Queen of her division, Overall Senior Advanced Soloist, and received the second highest score of the entire night (roughly 300 dances!). She also performed Knockin with Mikel Young with which they won 1st place in the Advanced Teen Duet/Trio catagory as well as 1st Overall Duet/Trio. Julia Lee won Queen in her division as well as 2nd Runner up for Overall Senior Intermediate Solo. Samantha Homer and Hannah Bergstrom also both won Queen in their solo divisions and Jacey Brimhall and Jenaca Whittenburg won 1st place with their duet.
Other outstanding performances include:
- Maddie Jorgensen and Hannah Duncan-2nd place duet
- Sarah Hunt and Samantha Homer-4th place duet
- Cassie Godwin-3rd runner up soloist
- Tara Godwin-Attendant
- Paradi Young-1st runner up soloist
- Sarah Jones-4th runner up soloist
- Mercedes Paige-Attendant
- Sarah Hunt-2nd runner up soloist
- Danielle Smith-Attendant
- Lili Benevito-Attendant
During Sarah and Samantha’s duet “Vintage,” Sarah experienced a bit of a wardrobe malfunction. She handled it with a grace and professionalism that made us all proud to call her one of our dancers. Judges and even teachers from other studios commented on what an impressive job she did. Sarah reminded us all, in dramatic fashion, that we should always pin our costumes!
On Saturday our Mini Team had another great performance brining home Gold, as well as 3rd runner up Overall Tiny Novice Team and 3rd runner up Overall Tiny Grand Champion! They have done so well in their first two competition this year! It’s About That Walk received a High Silver award. Midsummer Serenade, Sounds of Summer, The Cave, Glukoza Nostra, and The Flock all received Gold awards. Glukoza Nostra and the Flock also tied with each other for 2nd runner up Teen Intermediate Teams. The Flock also received the Technical Merit award for their outstanding technique. Feel Good Time was awarded a High Gold and was in the overalls for their first time receiving 3rd runner up Overall Teen Novice Team.
It was a fun and memorable weekend. We had a great time with all of the dancers and parents and can’t wait to do it again!
