Inside the High-Drama World of Youth Competition Dance
- 7 years ago
Inside the High-Drama World of Youth Competition Dance
“You don’t look mean, but like, ‘I’m committed.’ You have a little smirk.” At first, her efforts produced a strange, unsensual energy; the other girls told her she looked “crazy.” So Angelina broke down sultriness like any other move — as if it were a jump or a turn —
and practiced it with her other choreography in her living room at night.
On a Friday afternoon last spring, Angelina and her teammates from Prestige Academy of Dance arrived at a technical
high school in Sparta, N. J., for the Imagine National Dance Challenge, a children’s dance competition.
“You don’t look mean, but like, ‘I’m committed.’ You have a little smirk.” At first, her efforts produced a strange, unsensual energy; the other girls told her she looked “crazy.” So Angelina broke down sultriness like any other move — as if it were a jump or a turn —
and practiced it with her other choreography in her living room at night.
On a Friday afternoon last spring, Angelina and her teammates from Prestige Academy of Dance arrived at a technical
high school in Sparta, N. J., for the Imagine National Dance Challenge, a children’s dance competition.