Arts & Entertainment
Local Dancers Compete in Elite Performance Challenge
National competition in Boston drew dancers from a wide variety of styles, ages 5-19. Ten of them were from Lynnfield.
Diane Abraham of Dance Studio of Wakefield reports that students recently spent four days competing at the Elite Performance Challenge National Competition at the Park Plaza in Boston - 10 of them from Lynnfield.
The event reportedly drew dancers from various states, ages 8 through 19, competing in categories that included jazz, tap, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop and musical theater. To get to this event, the dancers had to compete at a previous regional in Norwood.
“Aside from many of our routines and dancers recieving Platinum and Elite Platinum awards and adjudications we were also nominated for the "Entertainment" Award for the routine called "Turbulence" and won that category which was announced at a Red Carpet Gala Event,” said Abraham in an email to Wakefield Patch.Here is additional information Abraham provided from the event:
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Four of the dancers competed and scored high enough to make it into the National Showcase Competition (the best of the best) and we won
2nd Runners up for the Junior Production "A Pirates Life"
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2nd Runner up for Senior Jazz "Turbulence"
1st Runner up for Junior lyrical "Fly With Me"
1st Runner up for Senior contemporary "People Helping People"
Grace Fanikos of Wakefield was also chosen as an Elite Dancer and was the assistant for both "Comfort" and "Mark Kunermara" from So You Think You Can Dance.
About 10 of the Dance Studio of Wakefield students at the event were from Lynnfield. Others are from Stoneham, Reading, Melrose, and Saugus, as well as Wakefield, reported Abraham.
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