Dance Masters

This weekend was the Dance Masters competition. This is the competition that we usually spend the weekend in Ocean City, Maryland. This year they held it down in Virginia Beach. It was a fairly normal competition except for one thing that happened which is the reason I am blogging tonight. First of all Savanna did great with her solo, she got a gold which is the first time she has gotten a gold at this particular competition. It is the toughest of the year. She was in the running for Miss Dance Virginia and although she did not win, we are proud of her for competing and extremely proud of her for her graciousness. The other girls who did not win were not so gracious, one even crying on the stage. ANYWAY, what I am blogging about is something completely different. From the time the girls started practicing their dances for this year's competition I have heard from Savanna how tough "Foggy Day" is and how they really stink up the place with it. It is a trio and all three girls are beautiful dancers but for some reason they have never danced that dance to any of their satisfaction. Trios are very difficult to dance in complete unison so they are tough anyway. So, the girls go out there and the music starts and about 16 counts into the song the music stops, the girls just continued dancing without the music and wound up dancing the complete dance with no music - in perfect unison!! It was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen. They got a standing ovation from the judges and the crowd. Savanna said it was one of the coolest moments of her life. Later one of the board members of the DMA came up to the girls and told them that she had been teaching for (?? - Savanna couldn't remember how many years the lady said) and that she had never seen anything like it. They got a gold from the judges and they also got a special judges award for professionalism. What was funny though was after they came off the stage, the music guy asked them if they wanted to run it again with the music and the girls looked at Diane (their teacher) and Diane said "It's up to you, but you may mess it all up" so they looked at each other and looked at the guy and said "Nope, we're good!" Too funny! As a parent of one of those girls I couldn't have been prouder!

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Yep, I'm playing again

These are pictures that I took while Jen and the girls were here and I am just now getting to play with them. Jen, I'm working on the files and will get the disc to you soon! More to come!