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Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor, 6 (Branjie) (and background everyone) - Ortega

a/n: hi hello hey. how did this happen? I actually wrote this way quicker than I expected. thank u so much for ur patience during the rewrites fam, hopefully i won’t have to do any more!!!! so so so hope u like the new chapter :)))))

fic summary: Strictly Come Dancing enters its 18th series and its producers, after being goaded by a rival dance show on its inclusivity, commission it to be an all-female cast. Unlike Akeria who’s just here to bone her potential dance partner, dancer Vanessa is ready to act like a professional.

And then TV presenter Brooke Lynn walks into the rehearsal room.

***

11th October 2020

As it turns out, Vanessa meets Monique and Akeria for lunch earlier than she’d expected. Okay, it’s at her flat instead of a cafe and it’s dinner instead of lunch, the three of them all easily agreeing to go back to Vanessa’s after the pro dance rehearsal on Sunday evening. Akeria had wanted to go to The Ivy but Vanessa had decided to make pernil in the slow cooker that morning after a facetime with her Tia had made her particularly homesick, and there was enough for the three of them anyway. Monique had been glad of the fact that they would be safe from any rogue journalists at Vanessa’s, and Vanessa had laughed and objected to the idea that any journalists would be interested in what was going on in their lives anyway.

Then again, that hadn’t appeared to be the case last year when everything kicked off with-

“V!” Akeria shouts over to her and interrupts her from the dreamlike state in which she’s fluffing up the rice. “You got any more wine?”

Vanessa laughs at her friend as she tips the pan over three bowls consecutively. “You’re rehearsin’ tomorrow morning, calm the fuck down.”

“Aw, let a bitch live! I did good last night, I deserve to celebrate.”

Vanessa thinks about how Akeria ended up fourth on the leaderboard with Asia and rolls her eyes. “Yeah, rub it in, girl. It’s fourth place, not Vicks.”

“Stop bein’ salty,” Akeria scolds her as Vanessa carries their dinner over to the huge sofa they’ve chosen to sit on instead of her tiny dining table. “You had a couple bum weeks, so what? This week’ll be the one.”

Vanessa wants to point out that it was really only one bum week and the other she was undermarked for, but she doesn’t. She lets it drop and instead turns her attention to Monique. “Right, bitch, let’s break bread and spill tea. What’s goin’ on?”

As Monique lets out a heavy sigh while she stabs at her food, Akeria claps her hands together and threatens to spill her dinner. “Yes! Thank God you said it, ‘cause I didn’t want to seem rude, but that’s the reason we’re all here, right?”

“God, I beg you both shut up,” Monique groans. “Okay so…me and Monet. You know we did that Waltz, right? And it was very…romantic, very intense.”

Vanessa and Akeria bob their heads like nodding dogs in response. Monique gives another heavy sigh and Vanessa is on the edge of her seat. “Well, it was like…our last full run before we finished up on Thursday. An’ we were both very much like…well, final run, let’s just give it all our energy. And it just got so intense, like, all the eye contact and the moments where we were all like…close, the bit where she picks me up and spins me-”

“Oh my God…did you kiss?” Akeria blurts out excitedly. Monique rubs both her temples with her hands.

“Akeria,” she raises her eyebrows. “We had sex.”

Vanessa lets out a scream. Akeria almost spills the entire bowl of pernil over herself as she reacts, waving her arms about so much Vanessa thinks she might give herself whiplash. “Sorry, sorry, sorry…WHAT?!”

“You cannot tell a single fucking soul on God’s green earth!” Monique groans, and Vanessa still isn’t sure if she’s over the information she’s just been given.

“HOW?!” Vanessa screeches out, ignoring Monique’s plea but promising her internally.

“It was my own damn fault-”

“FAULT?! How is this in any way a negative situation?” Akeria teases her friend with a shit-eating grin on her face.

Monique pouts in self-pity as she carries on with her sentence. “I kissed her. At the very end. I just got so caught up in everything, Jesus, I don’t know.”

“Tell me it was like the musical where there’s all the fuckin’ horn section and everything goin’ off in the background,” Vanessa butts in, remembering when she saw The Bodyguard on the West End last year. Monique knows the exact bit in I Have Nothing she’s talking about, because she nods her head.

“It was exactly that part.”

Vanessa lets out a cry identical to Akeria’s. She’s picturing the scene in her head and it sounds like the most romantic kiss that’s ever happened to anyone outside of a fictional setting. “M’nique, that’s adorable, oh my God.”

“What happened after? Well, she obviously liked it,” Akeria shrugs, and Vanessa splutters a laugh. Monique looks vaguely like a babysitter that has to deal with a pair of five year old twins.

“She just kissed me back before I could even break away out of fuckin’ embarrassment. She was just holding me and kissing me for what seemed like ages…and then when I had to get air I was panicking and apologising and she…oh my God. She asked me if she could take me home.”

Akeria raises her eyebrows. “Damn. I have got flutters.”

“So you went back to hers? OH my God. You’ve been to Monet X Change’s house,” Vanessa gasps, impressed. Akeria gives a snort of disbelief, turns to look at her.

“She’s been inside her fuckin’ pussy, never mind her house!!”

They both howl, and Monique rolls her eyes before apparently admitting to herself that what Akeria had said was funny after all and giggling.

Akeria leans forward with intrigue. “And did you…have a nice time?”

Monique now can’t wipe the smile off her face as she puts both hands to her cheeks, an attempt to cover her blush. “Yes. We both did. It was a very nice time.”

“So what’s the problem?” Akeria asks her, blasé and black and white as ever. Monique gives a sigh of exasperation.

“Because we’ve not…spoken about it, we’ve not addressed it!”

“It didn’t seem awkward last night, you did a great job!” Vanessa frowns, spearing a chunk of pulled pork. Monique lets out a tiny helpless whine.

“Yeah, that’s because…” she begins, then trails off. Vanessa knows what she’s going to say already, but Monique finishes her sentence before she can properly connect the dots. “We did it two more times before the actual dance.”

“Jesus fuckin’ Christ!” Akeria shouts through a mouthful of dinner. “This ain’t fair! How come a God-fearing, good lil’ Christian girl like you can get laid three times in the space of three days an’ I get nothing?”

“Jeez Keeks that’s so far off the mark. Christian? Uh-huh. Good? No way,” Vanessa teases. Monique, for perhaps the twelfth time this evening, looks as if she’s severely regretting telling her friends anything at all, so Vanessa decides to be helpful. “When’d you bang again, then? Thursday night was the first. You stay over?”

“Yeah. We did it again the next morning and then in the studio on Friday.”

“IN the studio!” Akeria screeches. Vanessa wonders if she should apologise to her neighbours the next day. She, herself, has had sex quieter than Akeria’s screeching. “You are nasty as fuck!”

Monique has the good grace to attempt to look embarrassed before a proud smile takes over. “It was Monet’s idea. She told me she couldn’t keep her hands off me.”

“Well she’s nasty too. Y’all are well suited,” Akeria shrugs, and the three of them laugh.

“So why’re you pressed?” Vanessa asks her friend. She draws from her own experience as she follows up. “You in your feelings?”

“Yes. No. I don’t know!” Monique gives an anguished cry, dramatic as ever. “I just want to get to know her a lil’ more. I don’t want her to think I just wanna sleep with her because she’s Monet X Change, y’know? Like sure, I have a crush on her, but it’s not like I ever had sleep-with-my-dream-girl on my bucket list.”

“Maybe on your fuck-it list,” Akeria supplies unhelpfully.

“Why don’t you ask her out?” Vanessa shrugs. It seems so simple when she’s giving it as advice but if anyone had suggested that as a solution to her feelings for Brooke she would’ve laughed them all the way to Oxford Circus.

Monique gives Vanessa a long-suffering stare. “We both know it ain’t that simple, V.”

“Well, why don’t you tell her what you’ve just told us?”

This time Monique pulls a face. “Well, maybe. I don’t know. Monet don’t seem like the type to catch feelings, though.”

“You don’t seem like the type to catch feelings. Shit, you don’t catch feelings,” Akeria reminds her, Vanessa giving a laugh as she remembers every time Monique has had to pry girls off of her at a bar.

“Shut up. To be honest I don’t know what I’ll do, but I’m glad to have vented about it,” Monique shrugs in resignation, takes a sip of her wine. “Anyway Kiki, what’s the story with Miss Asia? Thought you were gonna sweep her off her feet an’ show her your Hitachi or whatever line usually works for you.”

Vanessa snorts as Akeria gives a smirk. “I wish. Nah, we get along great but we’re honestly just better as friends. It’s almost like all the hours spent rehearsing with our bodies pressed up against each other kinda ruined the magic a lil’. She’s great though. Could set her up with you, though, Vanj?”

In any other context, Vanessa would have a smart remark. However, the thought of being set up with someone else when Brooke Lynn seems to fill her every waking thought these days isn’t a desirable one, so she opens her mouth. “Well, uh…I mean, obviously Asia’s cute, but I’m not really…y’know-”

“Oh my God,” Monique cuts in, trying and failing to suppress a laugh. “You’re crushin’ on Brooke Lynn. You are! Oh my God, Kiki, look at that blush.”

Vanessa frantically shakes her head, willing the blood to flow away from her face. “No! No, it ain’t a crush. Shut up.”

“You’ve gone so red. Jeez. I’d hate to see the colour you go when you are in your feelings, then,” Akeria laughs.

“She is so in her feelings! C’mon, deny it, bitch. Try an’ deny it.”

“Jesus Christ will you both shut up!” Vanessa exhales with exasperation, now highly regretting the amount she’d wound Monique up. “Fine! Fine…it’s not a crush, but I just find the girl attractive, an’ it’s nice gettin’ to know her, is all.”

“That’s literally a crush,” Akeria stares incredulously at her. Vanessa rolls her eyes to the ceiling and aquiesces.

“…fine, maybe it’s a crush, god damn.”

The two girls opposite her explode. Vanessa stuffs more pernil and rice into her mouth with a feeling of resignation.

“Don’t tell me you two’ve been bangin’ mid-rehearsals as well?”

Vanessa breathes a laugh. “Stop it. No, just a couple hugs in the corridor after our dances. We went out for lunch together last week.”

Monique gasps. “You went on a date?”

“That’s not a date, Mo, shut up.”

“It is a date! You took a girl you like out for lunch, how’s that not a date?”

“Because she wasn’t aware it was a date. And neither was I! It was honestly the furthest thing from a date. It was a fuckin’…raisin.”

The three girls giggle, and in the conversational lull something occurs to Vanessa. “The only other thing is, uh…well, both weeks we did our dance for the judges, after we finished, she, uh…she kissed me.”

There’s another bomb of screaming from the girls that detonates in Vanessa’s living room. World War Two hasn’t got shit on Akeria and Monique.

“What?!”

Vanessa shrugs. “I mean it ain’t a massive fuckin’ makeout sesh, obviously! It’s just a lil’ cheek kiss, top-of-the-head kiss, that sorta thing. You can see her doin’ it, the camera got it both times.”

(There’s a fan account on Instagram dedicated to her and Brooke’s Strictly journey, and it’s posted the footage of the kiss Brooke gave her last night. Vanessa will not admit to the girls that she has watched it too many times for it to be explained away as normal.)

“So she likes you back,” Akeria states, as if it’s a fact and not something Vanessa’s been wondering about at random intervals throughout the day every day for the past week or so.

“We don’t know that.”

Akeria’s face turns scheming. She’s clearly got an idea. “Well, why don’t you choreograph a big sexy rhumba or something where you gotta grind up on her an’ get all nasty an’ shit? That’ll speed things along.”

Monique points her fork at Akeria in agreement. “Yes! ‘Cuz Jan and Jackie did that in, like, week 1, and they’re already fuckin’.”

Vanessa screws her face up. “Jan and Jackie ain’t sleeping with each other, shut up.”

“Oh my God, girl, I beg you buy a pair of glasses,” Akeria rolls her eyes, causing Monique to let out a laugh.

“Yeah, they absolutely are.”

Vanessa shoves another mouthful of dinner in. She’s hungry, and it doesn’t help when she’s trying to talk and eat. “Well, Strictly curse aside, it’s our Jive week this week, so that’s operation sexy dance out the window for at least another seven days.”

“Ugh. That’s annoyin’,” Akeria consoles her. After that, talk immediately turns to movie week and dances, and the conversation has moved on.

But it’s nice now that she’s admitted her crush on Brooke Lynn to Akeria and Monique. She’s got her girls to vent to when Brooke gives her a smile that comes with an extra added twinkle in her eye that sets Vanessa’s insides on fire, or to squeal to when Brooke brings her a coffee from the cafe they’d visited for brunch last week “just because”. She can’t take her eye off the prize too much though, even in the excitement of movie week. They’re doing their Jive to Runaway Baby from the Madagascar franchise (Brooke insists it’s niche and Vanessa insists it’s not) where they’re dressed as animals breaking out of huge cage props and “running away”. It’s not going to be as iconic as Plastique and Scarlet’s Dirty Dancing-themed Salsa, nor will it be as hot as Crystal and Gigi’s Rhumba (to License to Kill, no less), but it’s theirs, and it’s fun, and it’s hilarious watching Brooke get to grips with the insane amount of kicks needed for a Jive to be a Jive.

“My feet feel like they’re going to fall off,” she groans, lying flat on the floor after a particularly intense Wednesday rehearsal. Vanessa hides a laugh behind her hands, sneakily pulls out her phone to film her.

“What?”

“I said my feet feel like they’re about to fall off,” Brooke repeats louder, for the unknown benefit of the camera.

“You ain’t much of a soldier, are you?” Vanessa scoffs affectionately. Brooke sits up on her elbows, noticing Vanessa’s phone.

“Are you filming this? You’re filming this,” Brooke asks and then confirms without Vanessa even having to say anything. “Well to anyone that follows Vanessa, I’d just like to say that this is human exploitation and you should not be supporting this.”

Vanessa howls with laughter, tries to ignore how good her name sounds in Brooke’s mouth. “She loves me really.”

“I love her really,” Brooke rolls her eyes, and Vanessa’s heart jumps at the words even though they’re part of a joke.

She stops filming, posts the video to her feed and leaves it as they keep practising. When they stop for lunch and they’re sitting scrolling, Vanessa’s eyes widen at the comment Monique has left, her friend taking her stirring to new levels:

moheart: you two are so cute omg branjie 5 ever xxxxx

As Vanessa’s contemplating using the cables that line the floors of Elstree Studios as garotting wire when she sees Monique at the show on Saturday, she taps on the comment’s likes (it’s got 85 so far). Her heart stops when she sees the familiar blue tick of bhytes at the top of the list. Vanessa darts her eyes Brooke’s way as if her face gives anything away, and of course it doesn’t. Brooke’s scrolling casually as if she hadn’t liked a thing, and it manages to mess even more with Vanessa’s head. Vanessa enjoys the feeling though, this experience of having a crush on a cute girl again. She is so used to healing (she’s had to do it for the best part of a year now), and it’s nice to have butterflies in her stomach instead of an endless churning ocean.

Her feelings for Brooke aren’t helped by Cheryl and her ridiculous quiz on It Takes Two on Thursday night after their rehearsal. Okay, Vanessa supposes- every couple has done one, so it’s not exactly as if they’re being singled out. But when they finish their usual interview (how they felt regarding last week’s comments, how rehearsals are going, how they feel about the week ahead) and Cheryl pulls out two sets of glittery pink paddles (one saying me and the other saying her) with an excited grin on her face, Vanessa does a bad job of masking her horror.

“Oh my God. Cheryl, what is this?”

“Welcome to…Mrs and Mrs!” Cheryl announces with a small flourish, and the film crew give a cheer. Brooke snorts beside her, just as dumbfounded. Cheryl continues. “Okay, Brooke and Vanessa, I’m going to ask you both a series of questions and you’ll need to hold up your paddle to show me who you think is the best fit as the answer- you, or your partner. Every time you both give me the same answer, you get a point. For example, if I asked you…who sweats the most in rehearsals?”

Vanessa rushes to hold up the paddle that says her and as soon as she’s done it she cranes her neck to look at the one Brooke’s held up. She squeals when she sees me staring back at her, a blush appearing on Brooke’s face as she giggles.

“I sweat! I’m very sweaty! I never wear grey in rehearsals!” Brooke pouts in anguish, and Vanessa gives a laugh. She leans into her in a show of sympathy, trying to ignore the way her pulse races as she catches the scent of her perfume. It’s not the Flash that she wears at the weekends, but it’s still just as intoxicating.

“Not sure we needed that much detail, love, but you get the idea! You’d get a point, because you both said Brooke,” Cheryl pokes fun at Brooke, before her gaze snaps back to the camera, all charisma and TV-presenter-smile. “Okay, your score to beat is five, that was set by Gigi and Crystal on Monday’s show and none of the other girls have beaten it so far! Ladies- are you ready?”

Vanessa raises her eyebrows, tries not to look at Brooke who she knows will be smiling like an idiot. “As I’ll ever be, I guess.”

“Okay. Let’s play…Mrs and Mrs!” Cheryl announces dramatically, and immediately holds up a set of glittery cards that the questions are written on. “Question one- who’s the most patient?”

Vanessa laughs and she can feel Brooke being set off beside her. She’s held up her, and Vanessa’s held up me.

“She’s so laid-back she’s horizontal!” Brooke laughs, and Vanessa swats her. She melts a little as Brooke’s gaze turns affectionate. “It’s why she’s such a good teacher. I’ve said it before, but I’m really lucky.”

Cheryl moves on before Vanessa can react to the compliment. “Who’s the best dancer?”

Vanessa hears Brooke scoff. Sure enough, Brooke has once again held up the her paddle, and Vanessa has voted for herself too. Brooke laughs as she looks at Vanessa’s paddles. “Of course it’s her! Has any celebrity voted for themself?!”

“Willam and Yvie both did!” Cheryl giggles, and Brooke rolls her eyes so much that her body tilts back with them. “Okay, next question- who is the better cook?”

Vanessa holds up me, and Brooke’s held up her. It definitely shouldn’t make Vanessa feel as good as it does.

“Brooke is like the kinda person who would struggle to keep a cactus alive, never mind her own damn self,” Vanessa laughs, and Brooke laughs along, agreeing rather than being offended.

“And Vanessa should go on Celebrity Masterchef one year. I swear to God.”

Vanessa looks at Brooke and smiles, happy for the compliment. She’s sure she’s not imagining that Brooke leans into her a tiny bit.

“Three points so far ladies, you’re on a roll!” Cheryl comments, impressed. “Who is more of a perfectionist?”

Vanessa fumbles with the paddles in her haste to hold up her. Brooke has indeed also voted for herself.

“She will make, like, one mistake and she’ll make us run the entire thing through until she gets it right,” Vanessa explains, Brooke giggling beside her in embarrassment. “I thought it was meant to be me that worked her hard, not the other way!”

Cheryl laughs from her interviewer’s chair. She reaches the next card and her eyebrows fly up her face. “Ooh, one for your massive egos here- who’s the most attractive?”

Vanessa’s heart gives a little jump and her brain thinks almost a hundred thoughts at once. She could play things off and vote for herself (because ultimately, she’s well aware of the fact she’s cute, she’s got a mirror), but part of her wants to see how Brooke will react to the compliment. Deciding all this in the space of about two seconds, Vanessa holds up the her paddle. To her surprise and poorly-concealed joy, Brooke is also holding up the her paddle. Vanessa’s trying to hide her smile and Brooke’s expression suggests she’s doing the same.

“I mean, I’m not gonna be big-headed,” Vanessa plays it off. Cheryl is looking at the both of them with a little scheming smile on her face.

“Well, nice to see that the first time you drop a point is because you’re both just too busy trying to compliment each other, in’t that sweet!” she grins. Vanessa wishes she had one of Cheryl’s cards to fan the blush away from her face. As Cheryl moves on to her next card, her mouth drops open. “Oh, right, this one’s a good ‘un. Who is most likely to have a crush on someone in the cast?”

Fuck. Vanessa can feel Brooke giving similar amounts of hesitation beside her, and the two of them share an awkward glance and a laugh. Without really knowing what she’s doing, Vanessa slowly holds up the paddle that says me. She’s almost scared to look at Brooke’s, but she leans forward anyway. Staring back at her from the paddle is the exact same word as the one she herself had held up- Brooke has also said me.

Cheryl gives a reaction much as if she’s reporting on breaking world news. “Ooh, now that’s interesting! You’ve both said yourselves. Any reason? Do we actually have any crushes flying around the studio?”

Vanessa holds a tight, awkward grimace on her face, hoping she can avoid the question. She almost feels her soul leave her body when Brooke crosses her legs and sits straight. “You might think that, I couldn’t possibly comment.”

As Cheryl appears to stave off an aneurism, Vanessa cuts in with the best way of diffusing the situation she could manage. “Aw, you know I gotta crush on you, Cheryl, stop pretendin’ like you don’t know!”

Cheryl howls with laughter, turns to the camera and appeals to her wife who’s presumably sitting at home. “Blu, babe, don’t listen to her!”

Vanessa joins in with the laughter, suddenly willing the interview to be over.

“Okay Brooke and Vanessa, at the end of Mrs and Mrs, you have scored…four!”

The production team claps them, and Brooke turns to Vanessa to hi-five her. Vanessa accepts with a laugh. Cheryl shuffles her cards and turns to the camera.

“Well they might not’ve won Mrs and Mrs but they’re still gonna be dancing on Saturday- Brooke and Vanessa, everybody!”

There’s another clap, and their interview is finished. Thank God.

It’s only when they’re walking back outside afterwards after a little bit of small-talk about their plans for the rest of the evening that Brooke quirks a bashful smile at her. “So, uh…you think you’re more likely to get a crush on someone in the cast than me? Does this mean you’ve got one on somebody?”

Vanessa suddenly feels as if she might vomit up her own heart. She plays it off, narrows her eyes at Brooke. “Alright, Cheryl, damn! I thought the interview was over. Jeez.”

Brooke gives a small laugh. They’re walking close, and every time Brooke’s body brushes against hers Vanessa swears she sees sparks flying off them both. “Just asking. I said myself, remember?”

Vanessa already feels ever so slightly giddy, so she takes the risk. She cocks her head at Brooke as she walks. “Alright, since you wanna talk about crushes so much. Who’ve you gotta crush on?”

“I asked first,” Brooke shrugs easily, stopping as they both reach the doors to the exit. Vanessa lets out an exasperated laugh.

“Jesus fuckin’ Christ, we are full-grown adult women.”

Brooke splutters a giggle as she leans on the door and opens it, the freezing cold air smacking Vanessa across the face. They both leave the building and Brooke stands still, her face wearing a hopeful expression. The wind is whipping her long blonde hair over her shoulders.

Damn, she looks so beautiful.

“So you’re not telling, then?” Brooke smirks. Vanessa thinks about it. She thinks about what Brooke’s honest to God reaction would be if she actually turned around and said yeah, I’ve got a crush on you. The thought of doing so almost makes her laugh.

“Well I’m not a fifteen year old high schooler, so no. Sorry to disappoint,” Vanessa smirks back at her. Maybe this is flirting. She’s not even mad about it. Thinking again, she cocks her head curiously as she shoves her hands in the pockets of her huge hoodie that she’s pulled over her interview outfit. “You gonna tell me?”

Brooke’s smile is still there, still cheeky. “No.”

“But you’ve got one.”

“I never said that,” Brooke shrugs easily. For a moment they’re both standing biting back smiles at each other, and Vanessa feels as if she’s caught in some form of stalemate. It’s Brooke that breaks it first, because of course it is, and she brushes some hair out of her face as she shrugs at Vanessa again. “Well, have a good night, anyway! See you tomorrow, bright and early.”

“Yeah, you too. Get home safe,” Vanessa says, the two of them sharing the usual friendly wave that comes with their goodbye. In spite of herself, Vanessa watches Brooke turn on her heel and walk in the opposite direction to her. Just as she’s about to start making her own way home, Brooke pauses, turning to look back over her shoulder.

The pair of them share one last bashful smile before they make their way back home and it feels as if Vanessa floats home on a cloud.

Saturday rolls around quickly, and Brooke has managed to transform herself from having feet made of concrete blocks to someone with featherlight ankles, so Vanessa is confident that they’ll score well tonight. She’s not really got scoring or the judges at the front of her mind, though, because movie week is entirely too much fun. It feels as if she’s at Universal studios as she walks through costume and hair and makeup, everyone dressed up in variations of movie characters. The best by far, though, is Jaida and Yvie’s. Any part of Jaida that isn’t clad in a grey leotard and skirt is painted entirely in grey body paint, with her hands in black gloves. Her hair has been expertly twirled into two long “ears” on the top of her head, and makeup has painted a blotted white stripe down the centre of her face. Yvie is wearing an orange and black striped morph suit, on top of which costume have given her a little red and white striped waistcoat with a buckle, a red cape, and, of course, a pair of boots to dance in.

And her face is painted like a cat.

“I’m going to see that in my nightmares this week,” Scarlet pipes up from across the green room, looking every inch the iconic Baby in her pink dress and glittery silver heels.

“More like your dreams,” Yvie winks at her, and Scarlet laughs, presumably to offset the pink blush on her cheeks.

“Yeah Scarlet, don’t you want her pussy?” Willam joins in from where she’s getting her hair swept into a low ponytail. Her costume is nowhere near as extravagant, but it’s classy nonetheless- a fitted tuxedo suit for her stint as a spy as part of her and Phi Phi’s dance to 4 Minutes. Courtney laughs from her position sitting on the dressing table beside her. Even though she and Blair were voted out last week, Courtney’s role as a pro means she’s still part of the show’s group dances. It’s something that Vanessa thinks Willam is particularly grateful for (she’s seen the hand-holding when they think no one is looking). Courtney starts singing Livin’ La Vida Loca under her breath absent-mindedly.

“Hey, listen, at least neither of us are Shrek,” Jaida consoles Yvie, who doesn’t look as if she needs much consoling.

“You guys, Courtney’s right there,” Willam pipes up again, the girls laughing as Courtney swipes at her playfully. Willam flinches in her chair, much to the irritation of the hair stylist.

The costumes aren’t all ridiculous, though. There’s a murmur of admiration when Gigi and Crystal emerge from wardrobe in skin-tight floor-length velvet gowns (one red, one black), each with a huge slit up the side. Akeria whispers something to Vanessa about Crystal stealing her idea of a big sexy rhumba, and Vanessa tries to laugh from her current position in the hairstylist’s chair but the two thick plaits they’re weaving her mane of brown locks into makes it difficult. She can’t help but let out a gasp when Jan and Jackie emerge from their costume fitting, though, and neither can the rest of the girls: Jackie is dressed in black leggings and a red waistcoat and tails, covered in shining gold brocade and black detailing. It’s Jan, though, who takes Vanessa’s breath away. She looks like a muted version of Lily James’ Cinderella in a gorgeous, floaty powder blue dress which hits her calves, little dimantés and tiny butterflies stitched into the light fabric.

“Janet, holy hell! It’s Strictly, this ain’t fashion week!” Jaida cries, sticking her tongue out at the end to let her friend know she’s joking. Jan gives a shy laugh, sweeps her immaculately curled blonde hair over her shoulders.

“Yeah, all you’re missing is a tiara,” Scarlet agrees enthusiastically.

“Hey, I thought we were meant to be showing off our celebrities!” Akeria pipes up with a raised eyebrow. Before Jan can reply, Jackie takes her hand and smiles.

“I’m happy to let this one steal the show for this week. She looks gorgeous, she deserves to be in the spotlight,” she shrugs. Vanessa doesn’t miss the look Jan gives her partner or the way she squeezes Jackie’s hand. She thinks back to what Monique had said at dinner on Sunday. Maybe something is happening between those two after all.

“Vanessa! You’re up please, fitting,” one of the costume girls calls out for her, and Vanessa obediently dashes towards the room in question. Brooke’s been squirrelled away in her own dressing room having to do some prep work for her filming the next morning, so when Vanessa sees her in her own costume, it’s not what she expects. She can’t find the words to describe how Brooke looks.

“Don’t…say…anything,” Brooke warns her, but it’s too late- the laugh is already coming out of Vanessa’s body before she can stop it, and it turns into a howl when Brooke grabs her tail- her stripy, white and black tail- and gives a twirl. She is dressed entirely as a lemur.

It’s not long until Brooke is spluttering a laugh herself. “Don’t tell me this isn’t the hottest you’ve ever seen me look.”

Vanessa’s cheeks hurt from laughing. “I don’t think I can keep my hands off you, boo, I’m gonna be honest.”

“Well luckily you’ll be wearing the exact same thing in about five minutes,” Brooke quips back at her, and Vanessa pouts and groans. She doesn’t really mind though. Mad, extravagant costumes are a staple of Strictly movie week, and she’s just happy she gets to experience it with a partner this year.

Soon enough the show is starting, and Vanessa watches the first dance from the Divinatorium with her hand entwined in Brooke’s. Neither of them mention the contact- it’s apparently just another secret. That and both of their crushes. Willam and Phi Phi are first and it seems as if Willam’s technique is a little better after her somewhat dismal scores in the weeks prior. Monique’s told Vanessa she’s seen Willam getting extra lessons from Courtney during her lunch breaks, so she suspects that’s what is making the difference. It seems to have paid off, and they get a score of twenty five altogether. After they see that dance, they can’t stay to watch Aja and Farrah as they’re on third, so while Farrah lives her Disney princess fantasy waltzing to Someday My Prince Will Come, Vanessa is marking the steps with Brooke backstage.

“This is gonna be a good week. I can feel it,” Brooke smiles at her, and Vanessa believes it. They’ve coped way better with the Jive than they did with the Paso, so she’s eager to show the judges what they can really do. Farrah and Aja get their critiques and their scores (a disappointing 17), and just like that, Brooke and Vanessa’s VT is playing and their massive cages are being rolled out onto the stage. There’s a distance between them in their two separate props, but Vanessa knows that Brooke’s feeling confident and so, in turn, does she.

“Dancing the Jive…Brooke Lynn Hytes and Vanessa Mateo!”

The electric guitar slices through the quiet of the room and with it sends an electric shock through Vanessa’s veins as she starts to dance. Her eyes are focussed on the audience, ever the professional, but she hopes Brooke is coping as well as she’s done in rehearsals. As soon as it comes to the part of the music where they “break down” the door of their cages and land into hold with each other, Vanessa can’t help it when the fake performance smile on her face turns into a real one as she faces Brooke (whose face, like hers, is painted like a lemur, complete with bright yellow eyeshadow). Brooke’s face is concentrating hard, and Vanessa knows she’s nailing all the steps as they reach the section where they figure-eight their ankles then change and do the same with their other foot.

“See I ain’t try’na hurt you, baby, no, no, no, I just wanna work you, baby…”

There’s not a whole lot of the dance spent in hold as it’s essentially a test of their synchronicity, Vanessa doing the rightfootflick, leftfootflick, flick, flick, flick, PIVOT and hoping Brooke’s doing the same beside her. But it’s fast and it’s fun and she knows her choreo is good and fuck it, they’re both dressed as lemurs, so they’ve got a fighting chance of doing a decent job this week. Brooke takes her hand and spins her round all while doing the most complex footwork Vanessa’s taught anyone before, and her face is showing it. Vanessa knows she’ll get pulled up for letting her concentration show, but everything else, technically, has gone really well so far, which is just as well as Laganja is standing up to take in every single inch of the footwork.

“Your poor little heart will end up alone, ‘cause God knows I’m a rolling stone, so you better run, run, runaway, runaway baby…”

On cue, Brooke slides herself down on the floor then jumps up, and Vanessa puts her hand on her shoulder right on the final beat. The audience erupts, the clapping envelops them, and Vanessa can’t help but freak out a little. This is the first dance they’ve done where she really feels they completely nailed every single part of it, and she’s punching the air as Brooke picks her up by her waist, spinning her round and round on the ballroom floor. When she puts her down, Brooke pulls her into another hug, and Vanessa can feel the kiss she plants on the top of her head. It’s strong and insistent and Vanessa wishes it had been pressed to her lips, but she supposes she can’t wish for everything all at once.

Vanessa barely even takes in Michelle’s interview with Brooke, she’s simply too happy. As Michelle asks the judges what they thought, Vanessa hopes and prays their comments will reflect the dance they completed.

And they do.

Vanessa listens to them all in a happy haze- the words “immaculate footwork”, “light and precise”, “turned a corner”, and “breakthrough” all pop like fireworks in her head, and she can’t help but squeeze Brooke’s hand every time the judges give them a new compliment.

“Just one very little thing,” Shangela says at the end of her critiques. “You were concentrating so hard on that, and rightly so because it’s hard! But I’d love to see more of the chemistry you have with Vanessa, because you’ve got about two minutes to tell a story out there, and to see you both connecting with each other would be lovely!”

Vanessa tries to suppress a smile at her comments, and Brooke nods affirmingly at Shangela’s words. The incredible feedback is ringing in her ears so much that she hardly knows what she even says to Divina when they both run up to the Divinatorium after their dance is done, and when it pans to the judges for their scores Vanessa can feel her own hand unbearably sweaty in Brooke’s.

“Will the judges please reveal their scores. Bianca Del Rio.”

Vanessa sees the paddle that she holds up and screams. “Seven!”

She’s so busy squealing and hugging Brooke in her delight that she almost misses the next few scores.

“Kennedy Davenport.”

“Eight!”

Vanessa’s jaw drops so far open she’s momentarily scared she’s dislocated it. This changes everything. This is night and day to the scores they’ve had previously.

“Shangela Wadely.”

“Seven!”

“Laganja Estranja.”

“Eight!”

Vanessa can hear the other couples cheering and clapping for them both and she can feel a bunch of hands patting her on the back, but all she can focus on is Brooke’s heartbeat through her chest. She is euphoric. There’s no feeling like it.

“That’s a score of thirty!” Divina tells them, and when Vanessa pulls away she can see that Brooke is crying happy tears. The sight almost makes her want to start crying too. Divina pulls a sympathetic face. “Brooke, you’re clearly happy!”

“I am! I’ve just said from the start that I don’t want to let Vanessa down, and finally we’ve done really really well!” she sniffs, and Vanessa pouts and squeezes her waist. Thirty. Their score was thirty. Thirty out of forty. They’ve only dropped ten marks and it’s week three.

This is good.

As Divina carries on interviewing them both, Vanessa feels her concentration drift away. She’s remembering Shangela’s comments about chemistry. Next week is their Salsa week. Vanessa remembers her conversation with Akeria, and operation sexy dance, and in that moment she decides to make it her mission for the week to show the judges just how much chemistry she and Brooke have.

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The Dance Awards, Las Vegas 2022: RESULTS

Best Dancer:

Mini Female

Top 22:

Kendyl Millerd Malia Scott Hannah Bozer Kate Monge Addison Price Dakota Casteel Karyna Majeroni Madisyn Amos Rissa Laguana Neala Murphy

Top 12:

Elsie Sandall Bella Charnstrom Roxie Onellion Alivia Hughes Aria Du Annabella Atkinson Emery Duffin Sylvie Win Szyndlar Harper Anderson

Top 3:

2nd runner-up ($100)

Lilly Anderson (Larkin Dance Studio)

1st runner-up ($200)

Ellary Day Szyndlar (Club Dance Studio)

Winner ($300)

Finley Ashfield (Larkin Dance Studio)

Mini Male:

Top 5:

Morireoluwa Babalola Elias Elkind

Top 3:

2nd runner-up ($100)

Penn Alderman (Rhythm Dance Center)

1st runner-up ($200)

Aiden Ecenbarger (Dance Connection 2)

Winner ($300)

Matthew Conway (Next Step Dance)

Junior Female

Top 22:

Ingrid Wirtz Keelyn Jones Stella Vince Riley Zeitler Siena Paradeau London Campayno Kortlynn Rosenbaugh Malaya DiMonte Sophia Xiao Piper Ruff Faith Crain

Top 11:

Ava Ding Tiara Sherman Tahari Conrad Lilly Allen Isabella Tjoe Kylie Kaminsky Alexis Mayer Fiona Wu

Top 3:

2nd runner-up ($125)

Campbell Castner (Westside Dance Project)

1st runner-up ($250)

Savannah Manzel (Larkin Dance Studio)

Winner ($500)

Taylor Morrison (Dance Connection 2)

Junior Male

Top 14:

Justin Nguyen Landon Indeglia Caleb Tran Cayman Lee Tristan Redly Johnny Gray Joshua Allen Ace Junior Tadeo Kazuma Brailsford Creedyn Crawshaw Kaden Brown

Top 3:

2nd runner-up ($125)

Anthony Juo (Dance Collective)

1st runner-up ($250)

Jakey McCullough (YYC Dance Project)

Winner ($500)

Keenan Mentzos (PULSE Dance Centre)

Teen Female

Top 24:

Sierra Drayton Ashley Choy Cami Redpath Madison Ronquillo Gianna Mojonnier Brielle McCoy Addyson Smith Katie Shinn Ellie Duffin Logan Gallinger

Top 14:

Isabella Lynch Ava Lynn Kaitlyn Tom Addison Leitch Emma Donnelly Mariandrea Villegas Ali Ogle Maliah Howard Isabella Jarvis Sabine Nehls

Top 4:

3rd runner-up

Keira Redpath (Larkin Dance Studio)

2nd runner-up ($250)

Carly Thinfen (Nor Cal Dance Arts)

1st runner-up ($350)

Izzy Howard (The Rock Center for Dance)

Winner ($750)

Avery Hall (Danceology)

Teen Male

Top 21:

Logan Asuncion Christian De Jesus Richie Granese Devon Barna Grayson Skarsvaag Juan Pacheco Noah Ross Angelo Durante Issac Diaz

Top 12:

Skai Llorente William Huguet Kaden Golding Jagger McCloud Madden Zook Kyle Tucker Tristan Gerzon

Top 5:

4th runner-up

Drew Rosen (Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts)

3rd runner-up

Hudson Pletcher (Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre)

2nd runner-up ($250)

Patricio Lopez (Flashdance Studio)

1st runner-up ($350)

Isaiah Villegas (Dance Connection 2)

Winner ($750)

Luke Barrett (Dance Attack!- Los Gatos)

Senior Female

Top 23:

Courtney Chiu Sophia Seymour Jesse Detroy Sydney Ishaug Megan Keenan Kamyle Stamp Michelle Cheng Brianna Haith Phoebe Campbell

Top 14:

Reese Taylor Kennedy Barry Bella Mills Hailey Meyers Brooke Judge Cameron Chong Janiye Burnett Grace Gontarek Stella Wong Ava La France Sofia Benning

Top 3:

2nd runner-up ($300)

Ava Wagner (Larkin Dance Studio)

1st runner-up ($500)

Kiarra Waidelich (The Rock Center for Dance)

Winner ($1000)

Brianna Keingatti (Columbia Performing Arts Centre)

Senior Male:

Top 19:

Kyson Kai Julian Arango Blake Glassow Kai Javier Austin Morillas Ryder Hettick

Top 13:

Davyd Williams Braylon Browner Kellen Leathers Ryan Evans Charlie Head Benjamin Jones Evan Hamilton AJ Storey Brandon Torres

Top 4:

3rd runner-up

Holden Kunowski (Danceology)

2nd runner-up ($300)

Tristan Ianiero (Art & Soul Dance Company)

1st runner-up ($500)

Easton Magliarditi (The Rock Center for Dance)

Winner ($1000)

Moses Rankine (Elite Danceworx)

Finals:

High Score by Age:

Cash Prizes:

1st: $200

2nd: $100

3rd: $50

Peewee Solo

1st: Sylvie Win Szyndlar- ‘Tears of an Angel’

2nd: Giuliana Shea- ‘Fields of Gold’

3rd: Navy Forrest- ‘Beautiful Dreamer’

4th: Kingston Baker- ‘My Adidas’

5th: Lauren Thorne- ‘The Woods’

6th: Lennon Bailey- ‘Buschel and a Peck’

6th: Soleil Lynch- ‘Smile’

7th: Chase Lang- ‘Make You Feel My Love’

8th: Finley Nielsen- ‘Emerge’

9th: Evelyn McCune-Barrett- ‘Pure Imagination’

9th: Lexie Charnstrom- ‘Snowing’

10th: Savannah Jackson- ‘Prayer of the Children’

Mini Solo

1st: Ellary Day Szyndlar- ‘As It All Orbits’

2nd: Lilly Anderson- ‘Ring Them Bells’

3rd: Emily Polis- ‘House of Keta’

4th: Harper Anderson- ‘Moon River’

4th: Aria Du- ‘Tears In Heaven’

5th: Elsie Sandall- ‘Once Upon Another Time’

6th: Malia Scott- ‘Suspend’

7th: Finley Ashfield- ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off’

7th: Ruby Kramer- ‘Love Potion No. 9′

7th: Evelyn Lee- ‘Pink Panther’

7th: Kendyl Miller- ‘Say Something’

7th: Hannah Bozer- ‘Used to Be Mine’

8th: Addison Price- ‘Expired Consciousness’

8th: Kennedy Marble- ‘I Don’t Care’

8th: Charlotte Shinnefield- ‘One Step Forward’

8th: Emery Duffin- ‘Respect’

9th: Bella Charnstrom- ‘The Mind’

10th: Zaylee Watson- ‘Bassa Sababa’

10th: Ila Howick- ‘I Wish’

10th: Harper Schwalb- ‘Serenity’

Junior Solo

1st: Victoria Johnson- ‘Insensible’

1st: Kylie Kaminsky- ‘Siren’

2nd: Savannah Manzel- ‘Reimagine’

2nd: Keenan Mentzos- ‘The World in A Grain of Sand’

3rd: Keelyn Jones- ‘Moments Before’

4th: Glee Dang- ‘I’ve Got Rhythm’

4th: Ava Ding- ‘Time’

5th: Kortlynn Rosenbaugh- ‘Arrival’

5th: Lilly Allen- ‘Radiate’

5th: Vivienne Robillard- ‘The Sound of Caves’

6th: Taylor Morrison- ‘Idlewild Blues’

6th: Fiona Wu- ‘Snowing’

7th: Daphnie Braun- ‘A Young Mind’s Thoughts’

7th: Joy Lin- ‘Be Still My Tongue’

7th: Sophia Xiao- ‘Bluebird’

7th: Ingrid Wirtz- ‘It’s About That Walk’

7th: Sophia Cialkowski- ‘Model Behaviour;

7th: Alexis Mayer- ‘Sweet Dreams’

7th: Fiona Sartain- ‘Wave’

8th: Tahari Conrad- ‘Exhale’

8th: Sasha Milstein- ‘Nature Boy’

9th: Braelyn Schaffer- ‘Almost Like Being In Love’

9th: Tiara Sherman- ‘Belly of the Beast’

9th: Sydney Kelly- ‘End of Love’

9th: Tori Chun- ‘Legs’

9th: Siena Paradeau- ‘Praise You’

9th: Sophia DaSalla- ‘Symphony In Sorrow’

9th: Alexis Alvarez- ‘Young At Heart’

10th: Lucy Cavender- ‘C'est Petites Riens’

10th: Harlow Pike- ‘Destinations’

10th: Kate Jarboe- ‘Le Jazz Hot’

10th: Malaya DiMonte- ‘Small’

10th: Faith Crain- ‘Through Crumbling’

Teen Solo

1st: Ava Lynn- ‘Under My Skin’

2nd: Isaiah Villegas- ‘Last Words’

3rd: Izzy Howard- ‘Adveniat’

3rd: Logan Gallinger- ‘All Farewells Are Sudden’

3rd: Hudson Pletcher- ‘Book of Death’

3rd: Isabella Jarvis- ‘How’s That’

3rd: Isabella Lynch- ‘Slipping Apart’

4th: Josie Lutz- ‘After the Rain’

4th: Claire Monge- ‘Atonement’

4th: Avery Hall- ‘Confinement’

5th: Laci Bloss- ‘Once Upon Another Time’

5th: Klaire Simek- ‘Raven’

5th: Amanda Sauceda- ‘Smoke’

5th: Drew Rosen- ‘The Anticipation of Becoming Unfastened’

5th: Kessa Yee- ‘Unravel’

7th: Mia Ibach- ‘Battle Cry’

7th: Gianna Mojonnier- ‘Glitch Repeat’

7th: Tatiana Hagee- ‘Love Me Like a River Does’

8th: Emma Donnelly- ‘Eclat’

8th: Keira Redpath- ‘Fame’

8th: Lyla Lee- ‘I’m Lost’

8th: Lauren Crooks- ‘Liquidity’

8th: Caitlyn Polis- ‘Rapture’

8th: Sierra Drayton- ‘Repose’

8th: Cami Redpath- ‘Superstar’

8th: Ali Ogle- ‘This Woman’s Work’

8th: Ellie Duffin- ‘Voice of God’

9th: Sydney Foertsch- ‘After Midnight’

9th: Alita Kneeland- ‘Bloom’

9th: Kristin Howell- ‘Charge’

9th: Addyson Smith- ‘Ebb + Flow’

9th: Brynn Kostka- ‘First Time’

9th: Ashley Choy- ‘Her Story’

9th: Makaia Roux- ‘Tangled In Truth’

9th: Kinley Bertrand- ‘Try A Little Tenderness’

10th: Jennifer He- ‘A River Runs’

10th: Sadie Grace Bethke- ‘New York, I Love You’

10th: Kieran Holmes- ‘With the Lights Out’

Senior Solo

1st: Brianna Keingatti- ‘Mine’

2nd: Kiarra Waidelich- ‘Exist Without Breath’

3rd: Ava Wagner- ‘I Don’t Trust You Anymore’

3rd: Michelle Cheng- ‘Sinking’

3rd: Cydney Heard- ‘Vast and Unattainable’

4th: Tristan Ianiero- ‘Don’t

4th: Anna Miller- ‘Ode to Dance’

5th: Julia Lowe- ‘Ripples In the Sand’

6th: Holden Kunowski- ‘Slow, Slow’

7th: Sofia Benning- ‘Hurt’

7th: Grace Gontarek- ‘To Resist Conformity’

8th: Kaliyah Williams- ‘Be My Husband’

8th: Brooke Judge- ‘Forever Seeking’

8th: Mercedes Lorentz- ‘Human Frequency’

8th: Ava Geske- ‘I’m Home’

8th: Ellie Weimer- ‘In This Room’

8th: Ryan Evans- ‘Mi Mundo’

8th: Sydney Ishaug- ‘My Performance’

8th: Sara Allen- ‘Vienna’

9th: Kennedy Barry- ‘Bloodline’

9th: Emma Hellenkamp- ‘Empty Promise’

9th: Bella Mills- ‘Oh Me, Oh Life’

9th: Emily Fluker- ‘Time After Time’

9th: Courtney Chiu- ‘We Fall’

10th: Mady Justin- ‘Easy Does It’

10th: Victoria Paggiossi- ‘Routine Unisil’

10th: Adare Hass- ‘Sleep’

Peewee Duet/Trio

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Lullaby’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Can’t Smile Without You’

2nd: Danceology- ‘You’re The One That I Want’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Sea Cruise’

4th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Shake Your Groove Thing’

5th: Elite Feet Artists Company- ‘Nobody But Me’

Mini Duet/Trio

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Silence’

1st: Danceology- ‘Three Blind Mice’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Sound of Silence’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘When We Remember’

4th: Danceplex- ‘Evening Rise’

4th: The Company Space- ‘Visnaga’

5th: PULSE Dance Centre- ‘Get Happy’

5th: Yoko’s Dance and Performing Arts Academy- ‘Table for Two’

Junior Duet/Trio

1st: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘How Do You Turn Your Eyes’

1st: PULSE Dance Centre- ‘Icarus’

2nd: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Hit That Jive, Jack’

3rd: PULSE Dance Centre- ‘Either Me or You’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Nostalgia’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Weight to Carry’

4th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Because You Gotta Have’

4th: The Vision Dance Alliance- ‘Come Get Us’

4th: Prestige Dance Academy- ‘Meliorism’

5th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘I Got to Groove’

5th: Danceology- ‘Seven Nation Army’

Teen Duet/Trio

1st: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Surrender’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Crazy’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Fading Soul’

3rd: Danceology- ‘Shattered Expectations’

4th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Inside Out’

4th: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Unfound’

5th: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Etched In Grief’

5th: The Dance Kollective- ‘Me, You, Us’

5th: The Dance Kollective- ‘Stay’

Senior Duet/Trio

1st: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘I’ve Got A Suitcase Full of Memories’

2nd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Don’t Give Up’

3rd: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Gone’

4th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Plan & Elevation’

4th: The Company Space- ‘Say Less’

5th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Prelude of Friendship’

5th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Say You Will’

Open Duet/Trio

1st: Diamond Dance Project- ‘Hand Crafted’

Peewee Group

1st: Club Dance Studio- ‘Pure Imagination’

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Unchained Melody’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Let Yourself Go’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Let it Be’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Ponytail’

4th: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Rainbow Connection’

5th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Yakety Yak’

Mini Group

1st: Danceology- ‘Rhythm Is Our Business’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘She Didn’t Look Back’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Size’

4th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Barrio’

5th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Ave Maria’

5th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Black Betty’

Junior Group

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘Man’

2nd: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Kill the Lights’

3rd: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘For What It’s Worth’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Love Me Tender’

3rd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘This Will Be’

4th: Elite Danceworx- ‘Through and Foreward’

5th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘What I Am’

Teen Group

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Leave Me Hollow’

1st: Downtown Dance Factory- ‘Today’

1st: Downtown Dance Factory- ‘Undecided’

2nd: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Nobody Love A Rattlesnake’

3rd: Studio Fusion- ‘Arrival’

3rd: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Pressure’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Reflection’

3rd: The Dance Kollective- ‘We Are the Music’

4th: The Vision Dance Alliance- ‘Interrogation’

4th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Lisztomania’

4th: Expressenz- ‘Play That Funky Music’

4th: The Dance Kollective- ‘Suffering Jukebox’

4th: D’ansa Jazz Stage- ‘Trio in D’

5th: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Is The End of Me’

Senior Group

1st: Danceology- ‘The Missing’

2nd: Elite Danceworx- ‘Manifesto’

3rd: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘BPG’

4th: Elite Danceworx- ‘Partitia for Four’

5th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘I Deserve to go to Prison?’

5th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Misty’

5th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Protect Thee’

Open Group

1st: Diamond Dance Project- ‘Rated F L’

2nd: Diamond Dance Project- ‘E Ala E Kakou’

Peewee Line

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘You’ll Be In My Heart’

2nd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Bop!’

3rd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Imagine’

4th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Petites in Paris’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Lil Bitz’

Mini Line

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘My Way’

2nd: Club Dance Studio- ‘Begin’

2nd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Papa Can You Hear Me’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Love Shack’

3rd: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘The Tourist’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Walking on the Sun’

4th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Every Season’

5th: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Breathe’

Junior Line

1st: Danceology- ‘All Shadows’

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘Bongo’

1st: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Sisu’

2nd: Elite Danceworx- ‘Piano Man’

2nd: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Tribal Beauties’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Harvest’

4th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Stop, Format It!’

5th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘One Way’

Teen Line

1st: Elite Danceworx- ‘Caronte’

1st: Elite Danceworx- ‘Come Darkness’

1st: Danceology- ‘You Don’t Fool Me’

2nd: Elite Danceworx- ‘What If?’

3rd: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘At the Apex’

3rd: Danceology- ‘Hive’

4th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Cinema (Act II)

4th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Easy Street’

4th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Welcome to the Internet’

5th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Disco Pop’

Senior Line

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘Be Italian’

2nd: Bunker Dance Center- ‘It’s My Parade’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Out of These Ashes’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’

4th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘I Get Along With You’

5th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘And On...’

5th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Testing Patience’

Open Line

1st: B-Dance Company- ‘Hands of Life’

2nd: Diamond Dance Project- ‘Diamonds Don’t Break 2.2′

Peewee Extended Line

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Cover Girl’

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Yacht Club Swing’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Shake’

3rd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Peppermint Twist’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Rockin Robin’

4th: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘My Way’

5th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Little Shop’

Mini Extended Line

1st: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Cinema (Act 1)’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Hot Lunch’

2nd: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Lil Einsteins’

3rd: Danceology- ‘Blindsided’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Control’

4th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Habanera’

5th: Dance Connection 2- ‘I Believe’

Junior Extended Line

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘That’s Life’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Mazurka’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Colour Me In’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Relax’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Scooby Do Pa Pa’

4th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Redlight’

4th: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘The Piano’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Unchained Melody’

Teen Extended Line

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘The Final Act’

2nd: Danceology- ‘Weight of Expectation’

3rd: Elite Danceworx- ‘Hey’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Lazarus’

3rd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Strength in Numbers’

4th: Studio Fusion- ‘Aftermath’

4th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘People’s Faces’

5th: Elite Danceworx- ‘Do You Hear It Too?’

5th: The Dance Kollective- ‘Make Me Move’

5th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Smooth Operator’

Senior Extended Line

1st: Elite Danceworx- ‘Thunder Comes Resounding’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘I Get By’

3rd: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Buckle Up’

4th: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘An Evening I Will Not Forget’

4th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Ya’

5th: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘APLand’

5th: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Escape’

5th: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘In Living Color’

5th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Superbad’

Open Extended Line

1st: B-Dance Company- ‘The Legacy’

Mini Production

1st: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Little Birds’

2nd: Danceology- ‘Fun’

2nd: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Singing In the Rain’

3rd: Danceology- ‘Transylvania’

4th: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘It Don’t Mean A Thing’

5th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Oh Yeah’

Junior Production

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Baby I’m A Star’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Billy’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Let’s Go’

4th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Get Busy’

5th: Danceology- ‘Brick Squad’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Flipmode’

5th: Danceology- ‘Leave None Behind’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Trip A Little Light Fantastic’

Teen Production

1st: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘The Truth Will Set You Free’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Swing Kids’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘What’s Left’

3rd: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Slime’

4th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Billion Dollar Baby’

4th: Danceology- ‘Pigeons on Broadway’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Chromatica’

Senior Production

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Jive Bunny 2022′

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Glory’

High Score by Performance Division:

Cash Prizes:

1st: $200

2nd: $100

3rd: $50

Peewee Jazz

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Cover Girl’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Ponytail’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Shake’

4th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Yakety Yak’

5th: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Bop!’

5th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Hit the Road Jack’

Peewee Hip Hop

1st: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Lil Bitz’

2nd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Let’s Go’

3rd: The Company Space- ‘We Go Back’

4th: Rios Dance- ‘Girls Gang’

Peewee Tap

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Yacht Club Swing’

2nd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Peppermint Twist’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Rockin Robin’

3rd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘My Way’

4th: Danceology- ‘Grease’

4th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Art Centre- ‘Safari Party’

5th: The Company Space- ‘Let’s Get Loud’

Peewee Lyrical

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘You’ll Be In My Heart’

2nd: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Rainbow Connection’

3rd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Imagine’

4th: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Rock Your Soul’

5th: Danceology- ‘Greatest Love’

Peewee Musical Theatre

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘Let Yourself Go’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Little Shop’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Petites in Paris’

4th: Danceology- ‘Hard Knock Life’

Peewee Contemporary

1st: Club Dance Studio- ‘Pure Imagination’

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Unchained Melody’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Let it Be’

3rd: Danceology- ‘Rainbow’

4th: Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre- ‘One Less’

5th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘For You’

Peewee Specialty

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Football Hero’

Mini Jazz

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Size’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Hot Lunch’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Love Shack’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Walking on the Sun’

4th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Black Betty’

4th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Control’

5th: Danceology- ‘Fun’

Mini Ballet

1st: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Habanera’

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Spanish Roses’

2nd: Pas De Deux Hawaii- ‘Romeo & Juliet’

3rd: Noretta Dunworth School of Dance- ‘Doll Dance’

4th: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Childhood Memories’

Mini Hip Hop

1st: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Lil Einsteins’

2nd: Pas De Deux Hawaii- ‘M.I.B’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Mimez’

4th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘M.I.B’

5th: Danceology- ‘The Tea Party’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Stand Up’

Mini Tap

1st: Danceology- ‘Rhythm Is Our Business’

2nd: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘The Tourist’

3rd: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Save the Last Dance’

3rd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Home’

4th: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Singing In the Rain’

5th: The Dance Kollective- ‘Puttin’ On the Ritz’

5th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘The Big Bang’

5th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Airmail Special’

Mini Lyrical

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘My Way’

2nd Danceology- ‘Blindsided’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Every Season’

3rd: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Breathe’

4th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Turning Page’

5th: Dance Connection 2- ‘I Believe’

Mini Musical Theatre

1st: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Cinema (Act 1)’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Barrio’

3rd: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Spanish Rose’

3rd: Danceology- ‘Transylvania’

4th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Puttin’ On the Ritz’

5th: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Big Time’

Mini Contemporary

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘She Didn’t Look Back’

2nd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Papa Can You Hear Me’

2nd: Club Dance Studio- ‘Begin’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Ave Maria’

4th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Escape Artist’

5th: The Company Space- ‘Hear the Bells’

Mini Ballroom

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Ain’t No Other’

2nd: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Pretty Woman’

3rd: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Sax’

Mini Specialty

1st: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Little Birds’

2nd: Legacy Dance Company- ‘Could’

Mini Acro

1st: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Move It’

2nd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’

Junior Jazz

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Baby I’m A Star’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Let’s Go’

3rd: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Kill the Lights’

4th: Danceology- ‘We’ve Been Burning’

4th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Redlight’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘This Will Be’

Junior Ballet

1st: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Tribal Beauties’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Mazurka’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Fugue In D Minor’

4th: Danceology- ‘Infinite Strings’

5th: Dance Connection 2- ‘La Corsaire’

Junior Hip Hop

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Get Busy’

2nd: Danceology- ‘Brick Squad’

2nd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Flipmode’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Titans’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Fearless’

4th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘What Is Hip?’

5th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘The Militia’

Junior Tap

1st: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘The Piano’

2nd: Danceology- ‘I Need You’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Wild, Wild Party’

3rd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Mr Sandman’

4th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Ballroom Blitz’

4th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’

5th: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Keep Your Head Up’

5th: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Cadence’

Junior Lyrical

1st: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Unchained Melody’

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Love Me Tender’

2nd: Danceology- ‘Ascending’

2nd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Retrospect’

3rd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Walk Away Again’

3rd: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Yellow’

4th: PULSE Dance Centre- ‘Hanging By A Thread’

4th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Wonder’

5th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘The Middle Place’

Junior Musical Theatre

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Billy’

2nd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Trip A Little Light Fantastic’

3rd: Danceology- ‘Strongest Suit’

4th: Studio Fusion- ‘Money’

4th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Princess & the Frog’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Shrek!’

5th: The Company Space- ‘Money’

Junior Contemporary

1st: Danceology- ‘All Shadows’

1st: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Sisu’

2nd: Elite Danceworx- ‘Piano Man’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘That’s Life’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Man’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Harvest’

4th: Danceology- ‘Leave None Behind’

4th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Colour Me In’

5th: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘For What It’s Worth’

5th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Stop, Format It!’

Junior Ballroom

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘Bongo’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Scooby Do Pa Pa’

3rd: Danceology- ‘Get Loud’

4th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Crowd Control’

5th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘The Look’

Junior Specialty

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Relax’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Together’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Falling For You’

4th: Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre- ‘Prism’

Junior Acro

1st: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Reasons’

Teen Groups:

Teen Jazz

1st: Downtown Dance Factory- ‘Today’

2nd: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Pressure’

3rd: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘Unheard’

4th: Prestige Dance Academy- ‘Boots’

4th: The Dance Kollective- ‘Dare You Not To Dance’

4th: Downton Dance Factory- ‘Move Dance Be Born’

4th: Noretta Dunworth School of Dance- ‘I Feel Love’

5th:NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Dance With Me’

Teen Ballet

1st: Pas De Deux- ‘Hawaii’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Love Story’

3rd: Elite Dance and Performing Arts Center- ‘Schramm’

4th: Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre- ‘Six Breaths’

5th:The Company Space- ‘Homeland’

Teen Hip Hop

1st: D’ansa Jazz Stage- ‘Trio in D’

2nd: Pas De Deux- ‘Hawaii’

3rd: Honolulu Dance Studio- ‘Joker’

4th: Desert Eagle Productions Dance Studio- ‘Moshpit’

5th: The Company Space- ‘Shake the Room’

5th: O’Brien Center of the Arts- ‘The Sideshow’

Teen Tap

1st: The Dance Kollective- ‘We Are the Music’

2nd: Expressenz- ‘Play That Funky Music’

3rd: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’

4th: The Dance Kollective- ‘Everything In Its Place’

4th: D’ansa Jazz Stage- ‘Gimmie Gimmie’

5th: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Coming Home’

Teen Lyrical

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘The Hill’

2nd: Downtown Dance Factory- ‘Keep Breathing’

3rd: The Dance Kollective- ‘Heavenly Bodies’

4th: Studio Fusion- ‘Falling Up’

5th: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Old Days’

5th: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’

5th: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘What If I Say I Love You’

Teen Musical Theatre

1st: Downtown Dance Factory- ‘Undecided’

2nd: Trilogy Dance Co.- ‘LE Jazz Hot’

Teen Contemporary

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Leave Me Hollow’

2nd: Studio Fusion- ‘Arrival’

2nd Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Reflection’

3rd: The Vision Dance Alliance- ‘Interrogation’

4th: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Is The End of Me’

5th: Expressenz- ‘First Light’

5th: Club Dance Studio- ‘No Solace’

5th: Elite Danceworx- ‘When We’re Older’

Teen Specialty

1st: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Nobody Love A Rattlesnake’

2nd: The Dance Kollective- ‘Suffering Jukebox’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Lisztomania’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘To Know A Man’

4th: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Mad World’

5th: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Nemesis’

Teen Lines, Extended Lines, Productions:

Teen Jazz

1st: Elite Danceworx- ‘Hey’

2nd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Chromatica’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Disco Pop’

4th: The Dance Kollective- ‘Make Me Move’

5th: Danceology- ‘Out Of the Crypt’

5th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Baseline’

Teen Ballet

1st: Danceology- ‘Hive’

1st: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘At the Apex’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘La Fete’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Carmen’

4th: Elite Danceworx- ‘Emerald Waltz’

5th: Elite Danceworx- ‘Carmen’

Teen Hip Hop

1st: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Slime’

1st: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Lazarus’

2nd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘X-NZ”

3rd: Danceology- ‘Another One’

4th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Duality’

4th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Coming in Hot’

5th: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Walk’

5th: D’ansa Jazz Stage- ‘Feedback’

5th: Elite Danceworx- ‘Lights Up’

Teen Tap

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Viva La Vida’

2nd: Danceology- ‘Faster Stronger’

3rd: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Dear Evan Hansen’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Rich Man’s Frug’

3rd: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Dancing Queen’

4th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Monster’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘This Land’

Teen Lyrical

1st: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘I Want You to Need Me’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Memory’

3rd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Over the Love’

4th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Foolish Games’

4th: Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts- ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’

5th: Elite Dance and Performing Arts Center- ‘Piano Man’

Teen Musical Theatre

1st: Danceology- ‘Pigeons on Broadway’

1st: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Billion Dollar Baby’

2nd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Easy Street’

2nd: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Welcome to the Internet’

3rd: Dance Connection 2- ‘Coffee’

4th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Cut Loose’

5th: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘The Mask’

Teen Contemporary

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘The Final Act’

2nd: Danceology- ‘Weight of Expectation’

2nd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘What’s Left’

3rd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Strength in Numbers’

4th: Danceology- ‘You Don’t Fool Me’

4th: Elite Danceworx- ‘Come Darkness’

4th: Elite Danceworx- ‘Caronte’

5th: Elite Danceworx- ‘What If?’

Teen Ballroom

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘Swing Kids’

2nd: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Smooth Operator’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Calabria’

4th: Dance Connection 2- ‘In the Closet’

5th: Danceology- ‘Endangered Species’

5th: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Red Handed’

Teen Specialty

1st: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘The Truth Will Set You Free’

2nd: The Dance Kollective- ‘Lessons Learned’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Let’s Play’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Rhythm Story- to inFUNinty and Beyond!’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Bosorkanya’

Senior Jazz

1st: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘And On...’

2nd: Dance Connection 2- ‘VIP’

3rd: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Jive Bunny 2022′

4th: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘What’s the Tea’

5th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Fashion’

5th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Play’

Senior Ballet

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Concerto No 2′

2nd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Chronos’

3rd: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Le Corsaire’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Summer’

4th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Sixth Breath, the Last Breath’

5th: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Vite-Fait’

Senior Hip Hop

1st: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’

2nd: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Buckle Up’

3rd: Noretta Dunworth School of Dance- ‘Options’

4th: Sandra’s School of Dance- ‘Swizzy’

5th: Sandra’s School of Dance- ‘It Go Down’

Senior Tap

1st: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘BPG’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Misty’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Taces n Sixes’

3rd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Freedom’

4th: The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘Redemption’

5th: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Escape’

Senior Lyrical

1st: Bunker Dance Center- ‘I Get Along With You’

2nd: Danceology- ‘All Will Be Gone’

2nd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘When We’re Older’

3rd: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Unrequited but Unwavering’

4th: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘An Evening I Will Not Forget’

4th: Dance Connection 2- ‘Woman’s Work’

5th: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘I Dreamed A Dream’

5th: NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘One of Us’

Senior Musical Theatre

1st: Bunker Dance Center- ‘It’s My Parade’

2nd: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘For Once In My Life’

3rd: Trilogy Dance Co.- ‘When the Chips Go Down’

Senior Contemporary

1st: Danceology- ‘The Missing’

2nd: Elite Danceworx- ‘Manifesto’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Out of These Ashes’

3rd: Elite Danceworx- ‘Thunder Comes Resounding’

4th: Elite Danceworx- ‘Partitia for Four’

5th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘Testing Patience’

5th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Protect Thee’

5th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘I Deserve to go to Prison?’

Senior Ballroom

1st: Dance Connection 2- ‘Be Italian’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Superbad’

Senior Specialty

1st: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Example #22′

2nd: Studio Fusion- ‘Work It’

2nd: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Flies and Vermin’

3rd: Studio Fusion- ‘Coconut’

4th: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Anywhere Out of this World’

4th: Bunker Dance Center- ‘A Charmed Life’

4th: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Ya’

4th: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘The Pieces We Keep Hidden’

5th: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘It Looms’

Senior Acro

1st: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Broken’

Open Contemporary

1st: B-Dance Company- ‘Hands of Life’

Open Hip-Hop

1st: B-Dance Company- ‘The Legacy’

2nd: Diamond Dance Project- ‘Rated F L’

3rd: Diamond Dance Project- ‘Diamonds Don’t Break 2.2′

Open Specialty

1st: Diamond Dance Project- ‘E Ala E Kakou’

Best Performance:

Age:

Peewee

Winners:

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Unchained Melody’ Club Dance Studio- ‘Pure Imagination’

Mini

Winner: Danceology- ‘Rhythm Is Our Business’

1st runner-up: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘She Didn’t Look Back’

2nd runner-up: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Papa Can You Hear Me’

3rd runner-up: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Cinema (Act 1)’

4th runner-up: Club Dance Studio- ‘Begin’

5th runner-up: Dance Connection 2- ‘Barrio’

6th runner-up: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Lil Einsteins’

Junior

Winner: Danceology- ‘All Shadows’

1st runner-up: The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Tribal Beauties’

2nd runner-up: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Baby I’m A Star’

3rd runner-up: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Sisu’

4th runner-up: Elite Danceworx- ‘Piano Man’

5th runner-up: Dance Connection 2- ‘Bongo’

Teen

Group:

Winner: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Leave Me Hollow’

1st runner-up: The Dance Kollective- ‘We Are the Music’

2nd runner-up: Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Pressure’

3rd runner-up: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Nobody Love A Rattlesnake’

4th runner-up: Studio Fusion- ‘Arrival’

5th runner-up: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Reflection’

6th runner-up: Downtown Dance Factory- ‘Today’

Line, Extended Line, Production:

Winner: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘The Truth Will Set You Free’

1st runner-up: Danceology- ‘Weight of Expectation’

2nd runner-up: Dance Connection 2- ‘The Final Act’

3rd runner-up: Larkin Dance Studio- ‘What’s Left’

4th runner-up: Elite Danceworx- ‘Hey’

5th runner-up: Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Strength in Numbers’

6th runner-up: Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Lazarus’

7th runner-up: Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Slime’

Senior

Winner: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Out of These Ashes’

1st runner-up: Dance Connection 2- ‘Be Italian’

2nd runner-up: Danceology- ‘The Missing’

3rd runner-up: Elite Danceworx- ‘Manifesto’

4th runner-up: Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘BPG’

5th runner-up: Bunker Dance Center- ‘It’s My Parade’

Open

Winner:

B-Dance Company- ‘The Legacy’

Style:

Contemporary

Nominees:

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘She Didn’t Look Back’

Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Sisu’

Danceology- ‘All Shadows’

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Leave Me Hollow’

Dance Connection 2- ‘The Final Act’

Winner:

Danceology- ‘The Missing’

Lyrical

Nominees:

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘My Way’

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Love Me Tender’

Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Unchained Melody’

Dance Connection 2- ‘The Hill’

Bunker Dance Center- ‘I Get Along Without You’

Winner:

Expressenz Dance Center- ‘I Want You to Need Me’

Musical Theatre

Nominees:

The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Cinema (Act I)

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Billy’

Downtown Dance Factory- ‘Undecided’

Danceology- ‘Pigeons on Broadway’

Bunker Dance Center- ‘It’s My Parade’

Winner:

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Billion Dollar Baby’

Hip Hop

Nominees:

Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Lil Einsteins’

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Get Busy’

D’Ansa Jazz Stage- ‘Trio In D’

Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Slime’

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’

Winner:

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Lazarus’

Acro

Nominees:

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Move It’

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Reasons’

Winner:

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Broken’

Specialty

Nominees:

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Little Birds’

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Relax’

Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Nobody Love A Rattlesnake’

Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Example #22′

Winner:

Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘The Truth Will Set You Free’

Ballet

Nominees:

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre -’Spanish Roses’

The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Habanera’

The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Tribal Beauties’

Pas de Deux Hawaii- ‘The Journey’

Danceology- ‘Hive’

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Concerto No 2′

Winner:

The Rock Center for Dance- ‘At the Apex’

Tap

Nominees:

Danceology- ‘Rhythm Is Our Business’

The Dynamic Dance Academy- ‘The Piano’

The Dance Kollective- ‘We Are the Music’

Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘BPG’

Winner:

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Viva La Vida’

Jazz

Nominees:

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Size’

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Baby I’m A Star’

Downtown Dance Factory- ‘Today’

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘And On...’

Winner:

Elite Danceworx- ‘Hey’

Ballroom

Nominees:

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Ain’t No Other’

Dance Connection 2- ‘Bongo’

Dance Connection 2- ‘Swing Kids’

Winner:

Dance Connection 2- ‘Be Italian’

Special Awards:

Professionalism

Noretta Dunworth School of Dance

Best Production

Nominees:

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Little Birds’

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Baby I’m A Star’

Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘The Truth Will Set You Free’

Winner:

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Jive Bunny 2022′

Outstanding Achievement:

Mini Technical

Nominees:

Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Lil Einsteins’

Danceology- ‘Rhythm Is Our Business’

NorthPointe Dance Academy- ‘Breathe’

Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Papa Can Your Hear Me’

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Little Birds’

Winner:

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘My Way’

Junior Technical

Nominees:

Danceology- ‘All Shadows’

Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Sisu’

Elite Danceworx- ‘Piano Man’

Dance Connection 2- ‘Man’

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Mazurka’

Winner:

The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Tribal Beauties’

Teen Technical

Nominees:

Danceology- ‘Hive’

Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘The Truth Will Set You Free’

Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Strength in Numbers’

Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Slime’

The Rock Center for Dance- ‘At the Apex’

Winner:

Elite Danceworx- ‘Hey’

Senior Technical

Nominees:

Danceology- ‘The Missing’

Studio Fusion- ‘Work It’

Bunker Dance Center- ‘Testing Patience’

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre- ‘Misty’

Columbia Performing Arts Centre- ‘Flies And Vermin’

The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Bloodline’

Winner:

Elite Danceworx- ‘Thunder Comes Resounding’

Mini/Junior Choreography

Nominees:

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘Billy’ (Larkin Staff)

The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Cinema (Act I)’ (Quinn Callahan)

Dance Connection 2- ‘Let’s Go’ (Chelsea Foster)

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘Color Me In’ (Stephanie Rutherford)

Winner:

Expressenz Dance Center- ‘Sisu’ (Brooke Napier)

Teen/Senior Choreography

Nominees:

Danceology- ‘Hive’ (Julie Friedrich)

Larkin Dance Studio- ‘People’s Faces’ (Chelsea Jennings)

Art & Soul Dance Company- ‘An Evening with Silk Sonic’ (Shanna Cipressi and Sabrina Porco)

Studio Fusion- ‘Work It’ (Lauren Slack and Aaron Williams)

Winner:

The Rock Center for Dance- ‘Cinema (Act II)’ (Quinn Callahan)

Costume Design

Kim Massay Dance Productions- ‘Is The End of Me’

Best in Studio ($2500 per style):

Hip-Hop

Art & Soul Dance Company

Tap

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre

Contemporary

Danceology

Jazz

Larkin Dance Studio

Ballroom

Dance Connection 2

Musical Theatre

Bunker Dance Center

Ballet

The Rock Center for Dance

Lyrical

Expressenz Dance Center

Studio of the Year:

Finalists ($5000)

Dance Connection 2

Larkin Dance Studio

The Rock Center for Dance

Expressenz Dance Center

Winner: $25,000

Danceology

People’s Choice ($250):

Rhythm Dance Center- ‘Rhythm Story To inFUNity and Beyond!’

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