Indiana High Dance

Over Valentine’s Day weekend the IHS Dance Competition Team traveled to Baltimore, MD for NUVO Dance Convention and Competition. We’re so proud of how hard all six of our dancers worked in their classes all weekend and we loved getting to try new things from all of the amazing artists. In addition, our dancers competed their contemporary and pom routines and the awards we received are below:

4th Overall Teen Group (Contemporary - I Won’t Complain)
5th Overall Teen Group (Pom - Shake)

3rd Overall Teen Contemporary Group (I Won’t Complain)
1st Overall Teen Specialty Group (Shake)

Palladium Contemporary Adjudication (I Won’t Complain)
High Gold Specialty Adjudication (Shake)

We would also like to recognize one of our dancers, Laila Foster, for a StandOut in Hip-Hop Scholarship by the talented during the convention.

Thank you so much to all of the families who made it out to attend our NUVO weekend and support the team! We had such a great time!

Over the weekend both the IHS Dance Competition Team and IJHS Dance Competition Team attended WPHS Winter Invitational! We had so much fun watching and competing against so many talented dancers. We are pleased to share that our IHS Dance Competition Team took home First Runner-Up in the Kick division and our IJHS Dance Competition Team took home a Best Costume award for their jazz routine.

Thank you so much to Wheeling Park for being such wonderful hosts and to all of the families and friends who came to support our dancers! We’re sad to wrap up our season with both teams later this month but are so proud of how hard all of our dancers worked and all they accomplished!❤️

Our final Senior Spotlight is Meah Myers! She has been a 3-year member of the IHS Varsity Dance Team. She is also one of the current IHS Dance Team Captains. She has been dancing for 14 years, starting at Sharon’s School of Dance & Gymnastics and spending the last 5 at Sue Hewitt Dance Studio. Her favorite dance style is Extra Contemporary. Meah is a member of Student Government Association, Ambassadors, Leadership Seminar, Key Club, Key Club Executive Board, Young Life, and PBIS. Meah is a Senior Parliamentarian for Ambassadors and the Secretary for SGA. She takes part in Senior Career Seminar which is a teaching internship that started with Life Skills at the high school and is adding Autistic Support at East Pike Elementary School. Meah’s post graduation plans include attending McDaniel College majoring in PK-12 Education with a minor in ASL! She plans to get a Masters for Special Education following that!

Thank you so much to all of the families and friends who came out last night to support our five amazing seniors at their Senior Salute! Also, a big thank you to the IHS Dance Boosters and senior parents for helping make this happen!❤️

Come out tonight before the game to support our five beautiful seniors at our Senior Salute at 7:00 PM!❤️🖤

As we approach the end of the season, we’re excited to share some more photos from our Alumni Game last month. We’re so lucky to have such a supportive dance community and loved celebrating 20 years of the IHS Dance Team!❤️

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Our fourth Senior Spotlight is Katharina (Kati) Finzel! She is a 1-year member of the IHS Varsity Dance Team. Kati is an exchange student from Germany! She has been training in ballet and rhythmic gymnastics for 10 years, but this is her first year dancing in the U.S.! Her favorite dance styles are contemporary, modern, hip hop, and ballet. Outside of school Kati dances at Sue Hewitt Dance Studio. At the end of the school year Kati plans to return to Germany to finish the last two years of school before attending university!

Our third Senior Spotlight is Elia Dietz! She has been a 4-year member of the IHS Varsity Dance Team. She is also the current IHS Dance Team Treasurer. Elia has been dancing for 16 years. Her favorite dance style is ballet. Elia is the Vice President of Visual Arts Club and a faith formation teacher at Our Lady of Assumption Church. She dances at Sue Hewitt Dance Studio where she is also a teaching assistant. Elia also takes part in an elementary internship at Ben Franklin Elementary School. Elia’s post graduation plans include attending IUP’s Cooks Honors College to dual major in Special & Early Elementary Education!