My joy: Turn it Up Nationals

Thursday, July 04, 2013

Turn it Up Nationals

We spent nearly a week at nationals on Cape Cod. It was lousy weather outside the whole time but the girls had a lot of fun with their dance friends in the indoor pool...

Julia did a master class with Twitch from So You Think You Can Dance...

Julia and some of her teammates were selected to be on a dance team to learn an opening number for the Dance Battle...

The entire junior dance team (Julia is front row, 9th from the right)

Julia placed 3rd overall for her solo...and that was out of 64 soloists!! Most of the girls who placed in the top ten were going for the junior title too! A lot of these girls travel around from competition to competition just trying to win titles...and most girls perform up to 3 solos. Not my Julia. She just showed up to one national competition with only one solo routine and walked away with 3rd place! Pretty amazing!!!

1st Jaylyn D'Angelo (Express Dance & Acrobatics)

2nd Jackie Lynch (Let's Dance)

3rd Julia!!!

3rd tied with Mia Pastore (Let's Dance)

4th Emma Graveline

Julia also won a special award "pretty as a picture" for all her pretty poses in her routine...

Lots of fun to be had during the award ceremony...

The Dance Battle was very good! They picked ten of the best ages "10 and under" routines from the competition and ten of the best ages "11 and over" routines to compete again in the Battle. Our studio won 1st place for both "10 and under" and "11 and over" with "United" and "Taj"! "United" got a standing ovation from the entire audience AND the judges which included Twitch!!! So exciting!!! The girls really brought the house down! They also got a standing ovation after they competed the first time too! Our studio won $1000 each for the winning routines!! Gianna's acro routine "Curly Shuffle" placed 3rd in the battle too!!

The winning moment...look at Julia's face!!