Finally the Showcase week is over. Like last year, the next day on Sunday kids picked their favorite dance costumes and we went to a well-known to other dancers and their parents place. Oh, and it was a good reason…
Glencoe Tidettes. School Year 2017-18. State Season
After the fall season is over, we start to learn our final piece, the State routine. This routine is four to five minutes long, and since we are in the Show division, we get to dance with props, and a…
Glencoe Tidettes. School Year 2017-18. Fall Competition Season
During the fall season, we learn two or three routines that we then take to competition. This year we learned a contemporary and a jazz routine. Not everyone on the team is in the dances, only those Coach Stephanie thinks…
Glencoe Tidettes. School Year 2017-18. Football Season
During the year, we perform various routines at school assemblies, football and basketball games. Most of the routines are the ones we learned from the two camps, but some are choreographed by our three captains. One of the assembly dances…
Glencoe Tidettes. School Year 2017-18. NW Dance Camp
The second big event we did as a team was Northwest dance camp. We hosted the camp at Glencoe, and we got to go home every night. It was similarly structured to Thunderbird, but it was a lot less crowded…
Glencoe Tidettes. School Year 2017-18. Thunderbird Camp
When I started high school, I auditioned for the dance team. I’ve only been on the team a year, but they’re already like a second family. As a team, we practice up to four hours every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday,…
NVDC Showcase, June 2017
The next day after the last performance was going to be very hot – whopping 100 F. I badly wanted to take pictures of the kids in their showcase costumes. So on Sunday I woke up at 6.30 am and after…
Jump 2017
March 10th has rolled around again, bringing with it the JUMP dance convention. Located in the Portland Convention center, it lasts the whole weekend, from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. Mom and I woke up early to make it on…
Portland Blazers vs Charlotte Hornets Halftime
Portland Blazers vs Charlotte Hornets basketball game. This is first halftime performance for Pavlik.
The Nutcracker 2016
We went to see The Nutcracker ballet performance that was presented by New Vision Dance Center – studio where our kids take classes. As it was in the last several years, first was audition in September then weekly practices and…