Some excellent results to share as below:

Friday 1 September results:

Year 9/10
Runner Up: Infamous (Junior Hip Hop) Choreographed by Tilly Spencer and Kaelyn Ilangana-Latu

Year 11-13
Champion: Applause (Senior Jazz) Choreographed by Ngamarama Tuariki
2nd Runner Up: Lass (Senior Hip Hop) Choreographed by Ella Henson

Lass was also 2nd Runner Up overall and Applause was awarded Overall Champion of the region. Applause progresses to Nationals.

Through the workshops, the following students were nominated for Golden Tickets to compete in the Gold Awards in November: Abby-Rose Bailey, Amelia Simpson, Demi Dawson, Grace Cohen, Isabelle Pryde, Ivy Yang, Kaydence Cochran, Kyla Forsyth, Maia Niwa, Monique Bright, Paige Dale-Hodson, Sophia Leong, Tilly Spencer, Willow Brizzell.

The Gold Awards are a brutal competition where students have to learn and perform a crazy number of dances in multiple genres all in one day and then perform them all in a knock out type scenario until there are only five dancers left standing. It’s like something you’d see on reality tv.

On Sunday 3 September they had an incredible four hour competition with our solos/duos/trios with the following results:

Year 9/10 Duo/Trio
Champion: Lily Kingston and Belle Fraser (also 2nd runner up Overall)
Runner Up: Abby Maskill and Willow Brizzell
2nd Runner Up: Demi Dawson and Piper Dawson

Year 11-13 Duo/Trio
2nd Runner Up: Ariana Buttar, Ivy Ho and Kaitlin Murphy

Year 10 Solo
Champion: Belle Fraser
Runner Up: Lily Kingston
2nd Runner Up: Maia Smith

Year 11 Solo
Champion: Amelia Simpson
2nd Runner Up: Ngataria Pomana

Year 12 Solo
2nd Runner Up: Jess Redman

Year 13 Solo
Champion: Macy Cribb

Nominated to compete at 'She Shines On' National Soloist of the Year: Belle Fraser, Amelia Simpson and Macy Cribb.

Monday 4 September results:

Year 9/10 Division
Champion: Dreamer (Junior Contemporary): Choreographed by Ngataria Pomana
Runner Up: Mistrix (Junior Hip Hop): Choreographed by Kadia Easton and Sienna Collins

Open Division
Champion: I Have Nothing (Lyrical): Choreographed by Ariana Buttar
Runner Up: Megatron (Hip Hop): Choreographed by Maia Niwa

Dreamer also placed 2nd Runner Up Overall at the competition. Dreamer and I Have Nothing progress to Nationals.

Ariana Buttar won an Excellence in Choreography Award for I Have Nothing.

Two more cheeky Golden Tickets were awarded to Lily Kingston and Amelia Simpson.

This year 174 schools were involved across the motu, so we can be very proud of our dancers - to have three team dances progress to Nationals, as well as three soloists, is very exciting and hard won. 

National teams and solos are on this Saturday and National duo/trios are on this Sunday so further results to come.