Competition Team Tryouts

IDS Team Tryouts MAY 30th!

Jazzerette Team 9:00 am- 11:00 am
Ages- 9th grade and up

IDS Jrs. 11:15 am – 1:15 am
Ages 6th -9th grade

IDS Smalls 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Ages 4th - 6th grade

IDS Minis 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
Ages 2nd - 3rd grade

IDS Tinys 5:00pm-5:45 pm
Ages 1st -2nd grade

* If your child is advanced to move beyond her age group,

then instructors at IDS will take that into account!

Mark you Calendar

Our Awards night will be Friday May 22nd

Eagle Point Park in Ammon.

7:00pm

potluck dinner

more details to come!

Dance Unlimited--Burley Competition

We just got back from Dance Unlimited in Burley this weekend and

OH MY did we do GREAT!

So proud of all our dancers and the hard work you put in!

Here is a recap of the results.

Every dance is given a "star" rating.

All the team dances were given 4 stars!

Great job!

Beyond that, each dance was ranked according to dance style and age group. On the division level, there is a TOP 10 ranking as well as some judges choice and overall awards.

I know it is a lot to process. We were a bit confused by it all too.

Novice Division

Kung Fu won High Score in the Character Dance category. It placed 2nd in the Top 10.

Jump Up won High Score in the Hip Hop category. It also got High Score for the 6 year olds. It placed 1st in the Top 10.

Beginner Division

Centerfield placed 3rd in the Top 10.

Cheetah Love won High Score in the Hip Hop category as well as High Score for the 9 year olds. It placed 1st in the Top 10.

Overall Awards for Novice/Beginner Division

This includes all dances; solos, duos, trios and teams.

Centerfield won a Judges Choice award for Artistry in Costumes.

Kung Fu won Command Performance.

Jump Up won Overall High Score.

Junior Intermediate Division

All Dressed in Love won High Score in the Jazz category and High Score for the 11 year olds.

One Step at a Time won High Score for the 10 year olds. It also placed 4th in the Top 10.

When I Grow Up won High Score for Hip Hop and High Score for the 12 year olds. It placed 1st in the Top 10. It also took the Command Performance award for the Jr. Division.

Combined Level Division

Speed Racer won High Score for Jazz category and High Score for the 14 year olds. It placed 1st in the Top 10.

Toy Soldier won High Score for the Hip Hop category. It placed 2nd in the Top 10.

Senior Division

Gravity won High Score in the Modern Dance category. It placed 4th in the Top 10.

Skippin' won High Score in the Hip Hop category and High Score for the 17 year olds. It placed 1st in the Top 10.

Skippin' won Overall High Score for the ENTIRE COMPETITION!

Congratulations to all of the wonderful dancers! And to Gretchen and Samantha, our wonderful choreographers.

Updates Available!

The calendar of events for the next couple months is listed here for you. If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Ogden Competition Results

As promised here is the follow up to Gertie's email and recap of the Ogden competition results.  

First off, let me just say that we did AWESOME at the competition.  

So awesome in fact, that Derryl Yeager HIMSELF invited us to perform with his professional dance company Odyssey Dance Theatre on Thursday night.  Derryl has been a professional dancer for over 20 years and has performed in many Broadway shows including A Chorus Line, Dream Girls, and Cats.  He is a choreographer and has directed for many shows at Tuacahn in St. George, including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Oklahoma.  He founded the Odyssey Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City and they are currently showing their Spring show at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus.  

The solo dancers all danced BEAUTIFULLY and we are very proud of them.  The competition is AMAZING in Utah.  Talk about a whole other level of dance!  We feel blessed to even be able to be among them!  

Here are the results of the Team Competition.

The ranking is done like medal contention.  Platinum is the highest (they did not give out any at this competition), then High Gold(there were only 6 awarded and we got 3!), Gold, High Silver, and so on.  

Kung Fu  

received a Gold and took first in their division.

Jump Up 

received a Gold and took second in their division.

Cheetah Love 

received a Gold and took first in their division. 

Centerfield 

received a High Gold and took first in their division.  

All Dressed in Love 

received a High Silver and took third in their division.

One Step At a Time 

received High Silver and took second in their division.

When I Grow Up 

received a Gold and took first in their division.

Toy Soldier 

received a High Gold and took first in their division.

Skippin'

 received a High Gold and took first in their division.

Mercy 

received a High Silver and took second in their division.

Gravity 

received a High Silver and took second in their division.

In addition they give overall awards in Novice, Intermediate and Advanced categories.  

Centerfield won first in Novice.  

Toy Soldier won second in Intermediate.

Skippin' won first in Advanced.  

YAY US!!!

Back to Derryl Yeager.  He invited the winner of the overall advanced competition, which is SKIPPIN', to come and perform with Odyssey onTHURSDAY NIGHT!  This is a HUGE honor.  He also asked us to bring TOY SOLDIER to perform as well so we are doing it!  Here is the message from Sam with all the details.  Get your tickets, find your car pool, whatever you need to do!  We are performing on stage with a 

PROFESSIONAL DANCE COMPANY!  

SO exciting.  

Parents, you should be so incredibly proud of your dancers!  I know we are!   

 

OK, ON TO THE FUN NEWS!!!

WE ARE PERFORMING WITH ODYSSEY!!!
Derryl Yeager, Odyssey Founder, gave me his personal cell phone number (hee hee) and told me to call him with any questions.  This is what I know FOR SURE:

When: THURSDAY, MARCH 19th 
Time: 5:00 pm SHARP 
Where: Kingsbury Hall (University of Utah Campus)
Tickets: 801-581-7100 

http://www.odysseydance.com

or http://www.kingsburyhall.com/

Sam is calling Derryl Monday to see where the dancers will sit to watch the remainder of the show, because "Skippin" is the 1st number of the night, Derryl does a piece, then "Toy Solider" is 3rd. 

OnStage Dance Classic

Here are the results from our first competition.  The dancers were so great and received so many amazing awards!

Solo's on Friday Night

Sadie Wold 

 1st runner up as well as the award for the best "DRAMA"

Blakeley Smith 

 1st runner up as well as the "Best Choreography" by Gretchen Hunsaker

and "Judges Choice"

(which means each judge gets to pick their favorite soloist!)

 

Lindee Pickett

 1st runner up...but in my book she was the queen! She was just beautiful that night!

Ashley Wood

 took 4th and was very good for just finishing the dance the night before...she thought she had another week!

Megan Owen 

1st runner up as well and was a very spunky 80's chick!

TEAMS ON SATURDAY

They have a point system that determines what you place 

so I decided to show just how close we came to taking 1st on some dances!

Skippin 2nd place 175... 1st 179

Mercy 2nd 186... 1st 189

Speed Racer 1st 188....2nd   166

Toy Soldier 1st 194....2nd 168

All Dressed in Love 3rd 173... 2nd Fab 5 174...1st 179 4th...162

When I Grow Up 2nd 186.....1st 187 OH SO CLOSE!

Gravity 2nd 185...1st 193...3rd 171...4th 163

Jump Up 1st 176...2nd 168

Centerfield 1st 175....2nd 169

Kung Fu 1st 186...2nd 178

Cheetah Love 1st 188...2nd 174

Special awards

"Highest Score of the Day" TOY SOLDIER 194

"Pop Drop and Lock" Cheetah Love

"Best Choreography" Toy Soldier! Way to go Samantha Lunt

Pictures from Jump-Up Halftime

We thought it might be fun to start posting a few pictures from our performances!
If you have any that you have taken, please e-mail them to the studio e-mail address and I will get them posted on the blog.

Our mini's did a halftime at Skyline High School on Wednesday night. They danced "Jump-Up" and did great! We got a lot of compliments and definitely entertained the crowd.
Good job, girls!

(Photographs courtesy of Ryan Hansen. Thanks, Ryan!)