Step One Dance Studio - 2013 Annual Student Showcase

Saturday afternoon, June 22, 2013 at Cosumnes Oaks High School in Elk Grove, CA. I missed the Petite performance in the morning: this was the Grande performance

Slide show to start.


There were a variety of styles on display. There were two numbers that seemed very close the style of CORE dance company.

There was one dance displaying ten little girls dancing a number to "Show Off" from "The Drowsy Chaperone." Presumably it was Broadway's Sutton Foster singing, but I thought it would close a vast cosmic arc if Foster's Broadway replacement, Mara Davi, had been singing. That would have been awesome!

Silas Wheeler sure got lots of opportunities to dance, even when he was outmatched by the talents of the girls surrounding him! It's great being the rare guy studying dance!

Taylor Payne is becoming one fine dancer!

The senior girls get framed certificates.

One of the girls could do quadruple pirouettes!

I was surprised to see Brandyn Matsumoto dancing. (If I'm not mistaken, he makes sandwiches at my local Subway restaurant.)

Bows

Teachers get recognized at Bows.

Miss Krystle. Yay, Miss Krystle!

Final bows, with teachers at the front.


I don't have much contact with the Dance Staff at Step One (mostly just with the Fitness Staff), so this was the first time I got a chance to appreciate what a nice job Naimah Kisoki has done since taking charge of the ballet program a year ago at Step One. Naimah Kisoki was formerly with Dance Theatre of Harlem, and she is readily conveying to eager students all she knows about dancing! She has just started making a deep impression on the dance scene here in Sacramento!