The Silhouette Dance School in St. Paul recently competed in the Shy-Ann Dance Productions Sundance Stars Dance Festival in Fort Saskatchewan where it won 15 medals and awards.
Those who earned medals in the solo category included Anna Pratch (ballet solo, contemporary solo, jazz solo, lyrical solo), Bailey Lang (ballet solo), Cassidy Thomson (jazz solo), Jessica Berlinguette (lyrical solo), Kelsea Zalaski (lyrical solo, pointe solo), Kendal Tilly (lyrical solo), Morgan Gerlinsky (jazz solo), Parker Gratton (jazz solo), Sarah Mistol (jazz solo) and Sydny Hardcastle (jazz solo).
In the group competitions, the medal winners were the grade 2/3/4 ballet group (silver), the senior ballet group (gold), the grade 1 ballet group (gold), the senior jazz group (gold), the 2/3/4 jazz group (gold), the contemporary group (gold), the senior ballet group 2 (gold) and the lyrical group dance (silver).
Kelsea Zalaski and Briana Robitaille won gold for contemporary duet and the school also won best choreography awards for both the senior jazz and contemporary group events.
“We feel it is because of the experience and the quality of our instructors and the dedication of our dancers that we have performed so well this past festival,” said Vicky Thomson, one of the school’s organizers in an email.
The instructors for this year are Heather Schiller, who has been with the studio for the past three and half months, and Jake Hastey, who is also the artistic director and has been involved for five seasons.
The studio will be taking the same dancers and groups to the Standing Ovation Dance Festival later this week in Fort Saskatchewan. On May 5, the school will be having its year-end show entitled “Live Love Dance” at the Elk Point Arts and Leisure Centre.
Tickets for the year-end event are $10 and can be purchased at the studio in St. Paul. For more information please call Vicky at 780-645-4839.
