COASTAL DANCE

Congratulations to all of our #teamcoastal soloists who performed at the Murwillumbah Festival of Performing Arts over the holidays. We are so proud of our soloists who represented the studio beautifully regardless of their placings. Special congratulations to Tiani who also received the Open Age Tap Perpetual trophy. Thank you to Helen Green and all the volunteers for all your hard work. Murwillumbah is really ‘the friendly festival’!

Tiani
1st – Tap Solo
1st – Jazz Solo
1st – Jazz Impro
2nd – Waltz Tap Solo
2nd – Song & Dance Solo
2nd – Song & Dance Championship
2nd – Tap Impro
3rd – Contemporary Solo
HC – Lyrical Solo
Winner – Open Age Tap Perpetual

Ella
1st – Restricted Ballet Solo
1st – Restricted Tap Solo
3rd – Student Choreography Solo
HC – Lyrical Solo

Danika
HC – Song & Dance Solo

Amanda
HC – Ballet Solo

Rose
HC – Jazz Solo

Grace & Isa
1st – Tap Duo

Rose, Kebby & Sinead
HC – Jazz Trio

Congratulations to our #teamcoastal eisteddfod groups who performed over the weekend at the Murwillumbah Festival of Performing Arts. We have been thrilled with the development of our eisteddfod teams this year as they continue to grow & improve each competition. Their results are as follows:

Under 8
1st – Song & Dance Group
1st – Tap Group
2nd – Song & Tap Group
HC – Ballet Group
HC – Jazz Group

Under 10
HC – Ballet Group

Under 15
1st – Song & Dance Group
1st – Tap Group
2nd – Song & Tap Group
2nd – Jazz Group
HC – Lyrical Group

Under 18
1st – Song & Dance Group
1st – Musical Theatre Group
2nd – Song & Tap Group
3rd – Tap Group
3rd – Street Tap Group

 

Solo results to follow!

We would like to congratulate senior student Jacqueline Owen who has been awarded a scholarship to attend the 2019 Australian Dance Festival. Jacqueline was nominated by Miss Kate for her resilence. No matter how tough things are Jacqueline always comes to the studio with a smile on her face! We would like to thank the Australian Dance Festival who created their scholarship program to help deserving students participate in the festival.

Congratulations to our #teamcoastal soloists who performed at the Ipswich Junior Eisteddfod. They received excellent results & performed beautifully!

Tiani C-P
1st – Waltz Tap Solo
1st – Contemporary Solo
3rd – Speed Tap Solo
VHC – Straight Tap Solo
HC – Song & Dance Solo
HC – Jazz Solo

Isla D
2nd – Tap Solo
3rd – Ballet Solo
VHC – Jazz Solo
VHC – Contemporary Solo
VHC – Student Choreography
VHIC – Jazz Impo

Isla D & Grace G
1st – Tap Duo
3rd – Jazz Duo

 

Congratulations to our #teamcoastal groups who performed at the 2019 Coffs Harbour District Eisteddfod. We had performers aged from 7 to 70+ competing over 3 days. Thank you to the committee, volunteers & our #teamcoastal families for a fun-filled weekend!

Under 6 
1st – Jazz Trio

Under 8
1st – Tap Group
1st – Jazz Group
2nd – Jazz Group
HC – Ballet Group

Under 10
1st – Variety Group (8’s)
HC – Jazz Group
HC – Ballet Group

Open Age
3rd – Tap Group
3rd – Cabaret Group (18’s)
3rd – Teacher Feature
HC – Variety Group (15’s)
HC – Jazz Group (15’s)
HC – Lyrical Group (18’s)
HC – Group Choreography

25 Years & Over
HC – Mature & Motivated

13 Years & Over
3rd – Student Choreography Tiani Cashel-Patterson

10 Years & Under
2nd – Isla Davies & Grace Gonano – Tap Duo

 

Congratulations to our #teamcoastal eisteddfod teams who competed at the Ipswich Combined Teachers Festival over the weekend. Our groups performed beautifully & made us very proud! We are looking forward to a great year of competition with #teamcoastal! Thank you to the ICTF committee and volunteers for all your effort in putting this great competition on!

Under 8

1st – Song & Dance
1st – Tap
2nd – Jazz
3rd – Song & Tap
HC – Jazz

Under 10

2nd – Jazz

Under 15 

VHC – Lyrical
VHC – Song & Tap
HC – Jazz

Under 18

1st – Song & Dance
3rd – Tap
VHC – Lyrical
VHC – Musical Theatre
HC – Street Tap

Congratulations to senior students Tiani & Mia who have successfully auditioned for the Brisbane season of the LOcREaDO Dance Company. This is a junior contemporary company which is run by Loredo Malcolm.

Coastal Dance has had students in all 3 QLD programs with students also travelling to Sydney & China to perform. We are grateful for the opportunities this program gives young dancers and we can’t wait to see the show!

#teamcoastal celebrated Valentine’s Day with our annual mufti day on Saturday the 16th of February. This is an annual tradition at the studio with all classes celebrating by dressing in pink or red. We love our studio traditions that make lasting memories for #teamcoastal!!

 

Last week Miss Kate & Miss Georgia spent 3 days in Brisbane at the annual Tapatak Oz Teachers Seminar. The seminar was conducted by the creator of Tapatak Oz, Christine Denny who taught the teaching techniques she has developed over the past 25 years & covered all the levels of the syllabus.

Coastal Dance is proud to be a Tapatak Oz school as we truely believe in the vision & philosophy of spreading the joy of tap! You can find out more about Tapatak Oz on the offical website:  https://www.tapatak-oz.com

Congratulations to 2017 graduate Jorja Coe who has just secured her first contract with Celebrity Cruise Lines. Jorja started her formal dance training at Coastal Dance, age 13. Jorja completed her Certificate IV in Dance at Dynamite Studios Australia in 2018 and is currently signed to their agency Evolution Agency.

Jorja is the third #teamcoastal graduate to be offered a professional contract with Royal Carribean or Celebrity Cruise Lines.