The competition went from noon to 5 pm. There were lots of families in the stands supporting their daughters. Some of the mothers yelled and shrieked when their daughter's team competed. I think I lost more of my hearing.
The dance competition consisted of two routines: high kick and jazz. For high kick dancing think of the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. The girls would do high kicks in one big line and also in various combinations of smaller groups along with other dance steps as they changed combinations.
The various songs in the high kick dancing was techno music with a fast tempo and strong beat, even if the original song was some 1980s style of song. Even so, most songs would kick it into high gear with the beat at some point in the song and the girls would get in a line and kick harder and faster.
Here is a video of a short part of another team's high kick routine.
For jazz dances there was more variety of moves and the music didn't always have a strong techno beat. One routine was danced to Sugarland's song "Stuck on You".
Emily is one of the team captains on both of her school's junior varsity dance teams: the high kick and jazz teams. I was busy videotaping her routines so I don't have any photos of her dancing. I did get a couple photos below of other teams. The dances seen are jazz dances. I thought the high kick dances were more entertaining but those dances were faster so the photos came out blurry.
At the end, while the judges finished scoring the teams, all the teams came out and waited on the gym's floor for the results.
It took a half hour for the judges to total the results and then announce them and hand out trophies to the top two or three teams in each category. While waiting, more music was played and often the kids would dance around. I think this was all a plan to wear the kids out before the bus ride home. For us spectators it was a long wait.
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