On Friday, Aug. 1, 2008, I had the opportunity to participate and compete in the Seattle Star Ball at the Sea-Tac Hilton. It was so much fun! I had never competed in a Ballroom Competition other than DanceSport at school, so this was a new experience and an amazing one!
Mom and I arrived at the Hilton at about 1:00 in the afternoon so that I would h
ave enough time to get ready. I spent that time going back and forth between the ballroom and the dressing room, asking for hiar advice, plastering my head with gel that was more like paste (honest, it came out of the tube and I thought is was Elmer's glue or that paste you use in Kindergarten. Same consistency too, and I put it in my hair! Yuck!), getting my make-up done and practicing with my teacher Elliott. I competed in the Pro/Am division so I danced with my teacher for all my dances. In the afternoon I danced the waltz, tango, and foxtrot each two times. I don't remember what order my awards came in, but I received two first place awards, and four second place awards. I was a little disappointed at first to be honest. I had hoped to do a little better, but I was doing my best to keep my spirits up. No one wins their first competition out right. What would be the challenge in that? All of the students also got a statuette for participating. It is a beautiful statue of a dancing pair and it is pretty large too.
ave enough time to get ready. I spent that time going back and forth between the ballroom and the dressing room, asking for hiar advice, plastering my head with gel that was more like paste (honest, it came out of the tube and I thought is was Elmer's glue or that paste you use in Kindergarten. Same consistency too, and I put it in my hair! Yuck!), getting my make-up done and practicing with my teacher Elliott. I competed in the Pro/Am division so I danced with my teacher for all my dances. In the afternoon I danced the waltz, tango, and foxtrot each two times. I don't remember what order my awards came in, but I received two first place awards, and four second place awards. I was a little disappointed at first to be honest. I had hoped to do a little better, but I was doing my best to keep my spirits up. No one wins their first competition out right. What would be the challenge in that? All of the students also got a statuette for participating. It is a beautiful statue of a dancing pair and it is pretty large too. There was a break between the afternoon and 
evening session and then it was back to the dressing room to put on more make-up and wear the expensive yellow dress I rented, and practice more with Elliott. In the evening I competed in the closed scholarship competition. It was a multu-dance competition so I danced all three dances- waltz, tango, forxtrot- right in a row. I had a semi-final of this round so after I danced I had to wait and see if I made it to the final round. My masters coach, Natasha, said that we were in the top three from what she saw, so that gave me hope. At that point though, i was so happy and having so much fun that Finals would be great, but weren't mandatory for my enjoyment. As it turned out we did make it to finals and I was so excited. My night/day was made. We danced again in the final round and ended up placing fifth overall. I was delighted! While the money would have been nice, given to the top three, I felt perfectly content knowing that I had made it to finals. It was an awesome day! It was my first, hopefully not my last, day in the glam of the Ballroom World!
evening session and then it was back to the dressing room to put on more make-up and wear the expensive yellow dress I rented, and practice more with Elliott. In the evening I competed in the closed scholarship competition. It was a multu-dance competition so I danced all three dances- waltz, tango, forxtrot- right in a row. I had a semi-final of this round so after I danced I had to wait and see if I made it to the final round. My masters coach, Natasha, said that we were in the top three from what she saw, so that gave me hope. At that point though, i was so happy and having so much fun that Finals would be great, but weren't mandatory for my enjoyment. As it turned out we did make it to finals and I was so excited. My night/day was made. We danced again in the final round and ended up placing fifth overall. I was delighted! While the money would have been nice, given to the top three, I felt perfectly content knowing that I had made it to finals. It was an awesome day! It was my first, hopefully not my last, day in the glam of the Ballroom World!
I will post more pictures when I get them, but I didn't want to wait too long. :)
1 comment:
Look at you miss dancing queen! You did awesome at your competition!...congratulations!
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