To say that it has been an incredible start to the competition season would be the understatement of the year!
DC19 was started after many many many years of being totally against the idea of competing in dance for a multitude of reasons.
As passionate dance teachers and lovers of dance as an art form, it was a decision that we really struggled to make due to a strong belief that dance is too subjective to be judged in the same way that sporting events are.
That being said, it was hard to ignore the the world of competitive dance wasn't going anywhere and was growing at a rapid pace, as well as the huge positives we can teach young people through working as a team and work hard consistently toward a common goal.
We decided that we would take the leap and start a team with the understanding that we wouldn't allow our values to be filtered for the sake of winning and the team would be a vehicle to further help us in the mission of showing young people how hard work, supporting others and being respectful can enrich your life.
In the competition world it is very normal for teams to be built by audition only, inviting only the best of the best into the team, leaving all the other children wanting to be a part of the team and perform week after week, to wait until they were "good enough".
We categorically did not want this to be something we were about and decided to build a team that was open to anyone that wanted to join.
NO AUDITION - NO QUESTIONS
We still wanted to be a team that produced high quality work and went out there with the ambition to win but the winning was not the most important factor. The winning factor, as cheesy as it sounds, was to offer everyone on the team a space to progress into the dancer they are capable of becoming.
This strategy and ethos is paying off in bucket loads, with the first 2 competitions of the season done, we have left with unbelievable results and more importantly comments from judges and organisers on how kind, supportive and professional our dancers are at these events.
Here are the results from our first 2 competitions, well done team!!!!!
Synergy Dance Championships
Gasolina - 3rd
Spicy - 1st
Children - 2nd
Lips Are A Moving - 1st
Childhood - 1st
Fabulous - 2nd
Tilted - 1st
Tomorrow - 2nd
Juicy - 1st
Junior Synergy Award - Oliver 2nd
All Coming Back To Me Now - 1st
Wondering - 1st
What Was I Made For - 3rd
Maybe - 1st
Constellations - 2nd
Hurt - 3rd
Hunger Games - 2nd
Big Noise - 1st
Back To The 90's - 3rd
I Want You To Stay - 1st
Vienna - 1st
Everybody Dance Now - 3rd
Born On 74 - 2nd
Call Your Mum - 3rd
Cluedo - 1st
Fabulous Baby - 1st
Euphoria - 3rd
I Like The Way You Move - 2nd
He's A Dream - 1st
Baddie Behaviour - 1st
Britney's Back - 2nd
Fit As A Fiddle - 1st
Deja Vu - 3rd
Satisfaction - 2nd
Caught Up - 1st
Fever - 1st
Judas - 1st
Judges Choice/Most Creative - Cluedo
Overall High Score Duo/Trio - Big Noise - 3rd
Overall High Score Solo - Maybe - 3rd
Ultimate Synergy Teen/Senior - Chloe - 3rd
Intensive Offer - Honey
Brace yourself, thats just one competition.
Hotshot Dance Competition
3rd place- childhood, Oliver Knott
3rd place- Soulja boy, Oliver Knott
Junior mr hotshot- Oliver Knott
3rd place- satisfaction, Ellise Eggleton
2nd place- hunger games, Theo and Frankie
3rd place- I found, Freddie hemming
3rd place- ain’t no other man, Freddie hemming
1st place- maybe, Alfie Whiley
2nd place- What was I made for, Lola-Belle
Senior mr hotshot- Alfie Whiley
Hotshot buzzer- maybe, Alfie Whiley
Choreography award- Alfie Whiley
Acro dance associates day pass- Lola-belle and Theo
2nd place- Juicy
1st place- Fabulous baby
1st place- Tomorrow
1st place- Spicy
3rd place- Tilted
1st place- Lips Are A Movin Ava and Daisy
Overall highest scores
2nd- Fabulous baby
1st- Tomorrow
Judges award- Fabulous baby
Hotshot Golden Buzzer- Spicy
Hotshot Golden Buzzer- Tomorrow
Choreography award- Tomorrow
Hotshot dancer award- Lola belle Southwell
3rd place- Big noise, Alfie and Honey
2nd place- All Coming Back To Me
1st place- Wandering
2nd place- Euphoria
1st place- I Like The Way You Move
1st place- Fever
2nd place- Need Me, Ruby and Freddie
1st place- I Want You To Stay, Alfie and Maddie
2nd place- Judas
1st place- Cluedo
1st place- Caught up
2nd place- Back to the 90s
1st place- Baddie Behaviour, Ellise and Eiyla
Senior highest overall
2nd place- Cluedo
Hotshot Golden Buzzer- Cluedo
Hotshot Golden Buzzer- All coming back to me