Studio One Dance by Cindy

Our last dancer to recognize for nationals is Mara Parkins. This was Mara’s final nationals and season as a student. Her dance career started very young, and she’s shined bright the entire time! If you had the pleasure of watching her final performance at the recital, you watched the outpouring of love from the entire team as she gave a very beautiful and heartfelt performance.

Mara landed in the top 30 with her solo, placing 27th. She was also with the small group “Silica” that went to The Big Show. She will be missed around the studio as she moves on to becoming an adult!

Leave her comment below with some words of encouragement, and maybe your favorite memory of her over the years!

Our last group dances to celebrate are from the 9-11 ladies. Their two routines, “Runway Walk” & “Colors of the Wind” were a couple of show stoppers! Both routines placed 1st in their category.

Runway landed 3rd place overall & a judge’s award. This routine also won the SDA Power Ranking Regional Champion award!

Colors… is your National Champion, winning 1st place overall! This dance was also invited to “The Big Show”, where they earned a second place finish against the best of the best.

We are so proud of these girls, and their big win!

Our next group dance is the routine “Silica”. This performance is nothing short of amazing. Not only did Ashley, Camri, Emalyn, and Mara land in the top 10 overall with an 8th place finish, they were also invited to “The Big Show” to compete again with the best of the best.

This routine also won the SDA Power Rankings Regional Championship!

You ladies did amazing! All the Littles completely enjoy watching your professionalism on and off the stage!

Our group dances really shined at nationals! These ladies in the 12-14 category had a couple of beautiful routines that performed very well! You can immediately tell by their costumes and facial expressions how different the routines felt from one another. They each told and amazing story. Both routines landed a top 10 finish!

Enchanted placed 8th overall

Here I Come placed 10th overall

Well done, girls!!!

We only had one trio to talk about at nationals, but it’s an amazing one! “State of Shock” performed by Ashley, Camri, & Emalyn. These ladies placed 1st in their category, and landed in the top 10 overall with a 9th place finish.

We wrap up our solo routines with “Mean Time” by Lyla.

Lyla placed 1st in her category and another top 10 finish with 6th place overall! This was a wonderful routine to watch all season.

Great work, and congratulations to this young lady!!!

Our next solo to highlight is “Hold My Hand” by Elizabeth!
She was 1st in her category and landed at top 10 finish with 8th overall. This lyrical routine was so much fun to watch all season!!!

Today we will highlight a few of our “big girls” and their solo routines. If you’ve had the pleasure of watching these dances, you already know how dominant they are on stage!

Ashlee with “Maybe
Emalyn with “I Have Nothing”
Camri with “The Girl I Am Now”

This group had A LOT of stiff competition, and as always, they represented the studio very well!

Our last duet to spotlight is “This Shirt” by Ashlee & Emalyn. This routine did well all year, and nationals was no different!

These girls placed 1st in their category and 8th overall!

Awesome work, ladies!

Our next group of duets from nationals came from our 9-11 category.

Anna & Johannah with a 1st place in their category and 3rd place overall!

Carlee & Eislee came in 4th place overall!

Amazing work, ladies!