This weekend I got to experience my first official dance competition and it was pretty fantastic. We did a practice one a few weeks ago so I kind of knew what to expect but it was pretty amazing. The whole group of Tiny Techers were there, which was 17 girls and 1 boy. They did dances to two songs within an hour of each other so in between we had to get them changed, touch up hair and make up and make sure everything was organized because the awards were immediately following their second dance.
I have to admit, I thought that they would never really do all that well since there are so many of them. A lot of the group are 5 and 6 year olds and we all know how it is trying to get them to do anything, it's literally like herding cats. It's nothing against the children or the teacher, nobody could get them all to do every move perfectly in sync and not make a single mistake but they did great!
The way the scoring works is basically this: They do each of their dances and get rating out of three (each dance company calls it something different so I am going to use 1, 2 and 3). Then, at the end of all the dances getting their rating, they do an "overall" top five from each age group and style of dance.
The kids first dance was to the song "Step In Time" from Mary Poppins where they were chimney sweeps. Out of the two it is not their favorite dance and with a few of the kids you can definitely tell they aren't as into it. They received a 3 for the dance. Here is a picture of Olivia ready for this dance:
