Ellevé Region Preview 2011

On Thursday, January 20, 2011, we held our annual "Elleve Region Preview". This is where my team performs all of their competition routines and we invite other local dance studios to come perform, groups from MMHS, and this year Juab High Drill Team was able to come perform. It was a great success and the Elleves performed very well!

My mom, Annie, Emilee, my aunt Barbara, my cousin Jamie, and my friends Cheri and Donna all were able to come. Annie took some great pictures again this year. I "stole" these pictures from her blog. (Thanks Annie!) :)

This is the end pose of the BDT Camp Dance - "More". We perform this at the beginning of the night and then introduce each Elleve afterwards and give them a rose.
Our Hip Hop - "Transform Ya".

End position of Hip Hop.

Beautiful splits - in our Military routine.

Kicks in our Military routine. They are super fast! The music is called "Angels & Demons". Not sure if it is really from the movie soundtrack of "Angels & Demons". It is very intense music!

Our routine is quite difficult. One of the difficult moves is our headstands! The girls rotate all the way around--stopping for 4 fast counts at each "wall".

They all hit it tonight! It was awesome--the crowd cheered!

It was their idea to put this in our Military routine this year. I wasn't sure if we would be able to pull it off--but they do in practice all the time. We have had some "bobbles" at competitions, but, because our routine scores high and we have a lot of difficulty, a little headstand bobble hasn't hurt us. I'm still waiting for the competition though, when they all HIT IT!

Just finished the full rotation!
Going down into the straddle from the headstand and then they drop into the splits.

Another awesome part--they lift one girl up as she holds her leg to her face! All done when there is a climatic moment in the music!

The ending--they yell, "Maple Mountain, YEAH!". It somewhat sounds like that is what the chorus people are chanting in the music! HA HA

The beginning of our very cute kick routine, "Betty Boop".

They wear Betty Boop wigs and our costumes are so cute! They look just like a dress that Betty Boop would wear! Their kicks are amazing!

This is the end pose--so cute!

Me and my assistant, Marci Hite. Annie took this picture of us at the end of our successful night!

I'm so proud of my drill team this year. We have had another very successful competition year so far. I'm so excited to see what happens at Region and State! Good Luck Elleves!