Today was my very first dance competition of the season! It was at GBS High School! When I first got there, which luckily wasn't early, I got to see my whole team smiling and excited! Once my whole team was there, we found our dressing room and started getting ready. We put on our Kick costume, but we had to wear our warm-up jacket over it so we wouldn't get makeup all over it. We had to do our foundation at home though. An assembly line of makeup soon started. There were seven girls doing makeup. Three were doing eye shadow, three were doing eyelashes (as in fake eyelashes), and then there was me, doing the eyeliner. We took way longer than we expected and we started to run low on time. Luckily, everyone already had there hair done and we didn't have to worry about that. Slowly but surely, everyone was able to get their makeup done and stretch. Before we knew it, we were headed to the warm-up gym. We practiced the dance twice, but not full out. Our time in the warm-up gym went by fast, and we were already on our way to compete. We had no competition, but Kick is our best style so I really wanted to do good. We got lined up and walked onto the floor. As we stood there, I got very nervous, but I breathed and relaxed myself. Our music started playing over the speaker. Our song is the instrumental version of Clocks by Coldplay. Our costumes are blue and they are so pretty! When we finished and had walked off the floor, we were all very tired, but we weren't done yet. We stayed to watch Maine South JV and Varsity. After that, we went back into our dressing room and got ready for our next dance, Pom. We only had about 15 minutes to run down to the cafeteria, eat lunch, and run back. Plus the lines were really long. Next, we did the Junior's team makeup. Then, we went to watch the Mini team do their hip-hop dance. We soon rushed back to the dressing room and got completely ready. We stretched quickly and headed to the warm-up gym. We did our dance twice before the told us it was time to go on deck. We waited there for awhile because we were a little early. Our Pom dance is very important because we were against 5 other teams and this is one of the dances we are taking to Nationals. We lined up and soon walked onto the floor. As we stood there waiting, time seemed to stop. Suddenly, the music was blasting throughout the whole gym. I felt so strong and energetic. When we were done, We were all so exhausted and my throat was so dry I couldn't swallow. I was also very hot. That means I did the best I could. We waited to watch the JV team. We quickly walked to our dressing room to get ready for awards. Before awards, everyone on my team, except for one girl, signed up for the Turn-A-Thon. It costs 5 dollars, but the money went to a charity. In the Turn-A-Thon, they play music and you do fouettes (a type of turn) for as long as you can, and the last person turning gets a prize! I started out really strong, but after awhile I became very dizzy and started moving around. I accidently kicked somebody (but I didn't know who it was), and then I completely wiped out. I didn't care though, I started laughing because it was just too funny! No one on my team got first, second, or third, but this is probably because the winners were all in high school. Then it was time for awards. A couple girls on my team and I were the only ones dancing to the music. Usually everyone is dancing, but this time they just stared at us like we were a bunch of weirdos. Once they started announcing awards, it was time to get serious. Many categories passed, but soon came ours. In Kick, we got first because we had to competitors. Next came Pom, and we were all very nervous. The announced 6th place, then 5th, then 4th, and then us! We took third place! Unfortunately, the two teams we really wanted to beat took first and second. I feel as long as we felt like we did our best, it was worth it. Today was very exciting, but tomorrow is my birthday and I can't wait until then!
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Fionna
11/11/2012 12:09:50 pm
I like the part where the people were staring at you because you were dancing. Before awards at my competitions I always put my front spot on my shoulders and we dance around!
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Marisa
11/15/2012 06:44:35 am
That sounds like so much fun. I would love to be on a team but I don't like being competitive. Luckily my dance studio is starting a kind of non-competitive team thing. I'm so excited! I will probably blog about it.
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