Wilmington Performing Arts Studio

Wrapping up our Senior Sunday spotlights with Carissa Preston!

🕺 Favorite dance: Anything Goes
🤍 Favorite WPAS memory: The senior tap team convincing Ami to let us dance to Don’t Stop Me Now
🎓 Plans after graduation: Attending Ohio University to major in Musical Theater and minor in Dance
✨ Advice for younger dancers: The most embarrassing thing you can do in the studio is hold back because you’re afraid of being embarrassed. Also, Ami’s happiness is largely based on the amount of Diet Coke in her system.

Continuing our Senior Sunday spotlights with Veronica Calderone!!

🕺 Favorite dances: Uninvited or Blue Lips
🤍 Favorite WPAS memory: Going to the water park at Kalahari with teammates
🎓 Plans after graduation: Studying dance at Miami University
✨ Advice for younger dancers: Allow yourself to truly get into the dance without holding back

Senior Sunday + recital week = the perfect time to celebrate our seniors🥹 Starting our senior spotlights with Samantha VanPelt!

🕺 Favorite dance: Puttin’ on the Ritz
🤍 Favorite WPAS memory: Getting to jump off the bench during one of my dances sophomore year
🎓 Plans after graduation: Attending Lancaster Bible College to major in Bible and Media Arts for Audio Production
✨Advice for younger dancers: Continue to do dance as long as you can — you’ll miss it.

Summer at WPAS is here! Go to wpasonline.com to register!

As we head to our final competition of the season today, we’re looking back on some incredible solo, duet, and trio performances from our last comp🤩

Tonight our props will get loaded and dancers will double (and triple!) check their dance bags one last time as we get ready to head up to Columbus tomorrow for our final competition of the season with ! Our dancers have worked so hard to get here and we can’t wait to take the competition stage one last time for the 2026 season. Our WPAS teachers are beyond excited and proud of the effort and dedication of our Competition students. Ms. Ami, Mr. Cole, Ms. Erin, Ms. Ashley, Ms. Cassie, Ms. Abby, and Ms. Hillary have graciously poured the entirety of their hearts and souls into these dancers to get them to this point in our season.

We would LOVE to have everyone up at the Columbus convention center to help cheer them on all weekend but if that isn’t possible for you we have our performance schedule posted here so you can join us on the Livestream! Please note that this event has **2 stages of competition**, so our post does indicate on each page which stage the dances will appear. You can access the livestream through the DanceOne App OR by going to Starpowertalent.com and searching for Columbus after clicking the “Livestream” option on the menu. As always, performance times are approximate and competitions can get off schedule for a variety of reasons, so look for each dance’s entry number as well as the performance time.

We are so excited for this last weekend of competition with this remarkable group! And to our beautiful and inspiring 2026 Seniors, we already know this weekend is going to be one full of memories and love as your whole WPAS family cheers you on every chance we get!
WPAS has so much to say and share with our dance community and we are so grateful to do it all one last time this season 💙
💃 LET’S GO WPAS 🕺

Some of our favorite on-stage moments from group dances ! Each routine showed so much passion, heart, and dedication in every step 🤍✨

What an amazing second Competition weekend for our Mini, Junior, Teen, and Senior Competition Team dancers and FIRST Competition for our adorable Pre-Comp dancers! We spent our last weekend sharing the stage with some incredible performers and studios, and our WPAS dancers had a beautiful set of performances every day of the competition! Our dancers, teachers, and families represented our studio so well the entire weekend. We left the venue with plenty of accolades, but what matters more to us all are the experiences had and the very real growth our dancers showed from Competition 1 to Competition 2. We are so proud of our teams, from the eldest Seniors to our newest Pre-Competition Team dancers. The WPAS Competition teachers are so grateful and proud to work with these amazing young people!

We had so many award highlights last weekend, including the amazing Groove Standout Award given to Senior Contemporary for their outstanding performance of “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” Choreographed by our Co-Owner Miss Ami, but just know that every single one of our dances did a great job! Our dancers did so much work to improve their routines for this competition and we could see it every time a dance hit the stage! I’m

This was an amazing weekend and one to remember. As we head into our final competition week, we’re looking so forward to seeing how these dancers close out our wonderful 2026 Competition season! 🤍🕺

We’re ready to hit the stage again!

This weekend our amazing Competition Team takes on Groove Dance Competition in Springfield, OH. These performers have put in an incredible amount of work over the last 2 months getting our dances ready for another Competition stage! Our teachers couldn’t be more proud of them already 🥰

Can’t make it to Springfield to cheer us on in person? No problem! Check out the livestream this weekend (link below)!
We’ve got our performance times and numbers here so you can stay up to date with all the action Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! Also, we’ll have some posts on our social media stories and our TikTok throughout the weekend - don’t forget to follow us so you can see all the behind the scenes fun!

We just can’t wait for our dancers hit the stage this weekend! Seeing them perform and light up a stage is absolutely the best thing 💙 💃🕺

Livestream link!
https://www.groovecompetition.com/livestream