With their year-end show planned for June at the GFL Memorial Gardens, dancers with Studio Dance Arts were in Hunstville last month competing at the Candance Competition.
The event, which saw nearly 120 dancers from Studio Dance Arts competing against over 600 others from 12 participating studios, was a successful one.
Results for Studio Dance Arts dancers included:
Diamond Dance-off Final Awards
Junior Diamond Dance Off Champions (12 and under): One
Senior Diamond Dance Off (13 and over) – 2nd runner up: You Are Me
- People’s Choice Award (highest score of competition 12 and under): One
- Adjudicator’s Choice (13 and over): You Are Me
- Director’s Pick (encore performance at Dance Off): Thataway
- Top Choreography Award (12 and under): One (Tania Castellani-Greco)
- Epic Award (Top Tap): Sing Sing Sing
- Top Costume (12 and under): Midnight Masquerade
Overall awards – Novice/Pre-Competitive Division
Novice Mini/Junior Solos
- 9th overall: Malia Arbour
- 10th overall: Kendall Hanchuk
Novice Mini/Junior Duo/Trios
- 2nd overall: Speaking French
- 3rd overall: Bippity Boppity Boo
Pre-Competitive Teen/Senior Lines
- 3rd overall: We Got The Beat
Overalls - Competitive Division
Mini Solos
- 5th overall: Stella Kelly
- 7th overall: Violet Piner
- 8th overall: Audrey Remiendo
Mini Small Groups
- 3rd overall: Sisters
- 5th overall: Never Fully Dressed
Mini Lines
- Winner: The Case
- 2nd overall: Make An Omelette
- 3rd overall: Whimsical Escape
Junior Solos
- 7th overall: Madeline Tonon
- 12th overall: Ava Neveu
- 13th overall: Daniella Greco
- 15th overall: Maila Sdao
Junior Small Groups
- 3rd overall: Havana
- 4th overall: Bathing Beauties
Junior Large Group
- 4th overall: Happily Never After
Junior Lines
- Winner: One
- 3rd overall: The Cave
- 4th overall: Boogie Shoes
- 5th overall: The Jacksons
Teen Solos
- Winner: Aliyah Flammia
- 3rd overall: Amia Guzzo
- 8th overall: Samantha Pavoni
Teen Duo/Trios
- 4th overall: Locomotion
Teen Lines
- Winner: You Are Me
- 2nd overall: Sing Sing Sing
- 3rd overall: Slow Down
- 4th overall: Thataway
Senior Solos
- 5th overall: Alexis Guzzo
- 8th overall: Sophie Flammia
- 12th overall: Teija Lappalainen
Candance Scholarship Awards
- Tap Camp Scholarship: Madeline Tonon
- SOL Dance Collective Scholarship: Amia Guzzo