Dancers shine in Coeur d'Alene

Dream Dancers Dance Studio swept up at their recent dance competition, Kids Artistic Revue, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Dancers came home with eight first-place, 20 top first-place and two elite top first-place awards, as well as 18 overall high point winners having the highest score in their category.

Top performers included Libby Proctor’s solo winning first high point overall; Irie Long, second overall; Sarah Randolph, fourth overall; and Seonna Lamoreaux, sixth overall.

Lamoreaux, Long, Randolph and Nicole Bergeson also received an elite top first and seventh overall with a jazz dance to “Footloose.”

Proctor, Ashley Knoll, Bailey Lake, Hailey Byers and Lizzy Randolph received a first place high score overall for “Little Hip Hoppers.” They also brought home six All Star Awards, getting a special invitation to New York to study in some dance workshops.

“Just Dance,” a jazz dance, received the “Jazz Pazzaz” judges’ choice award and “Yolo” received the SwagAlicous judges’ choice award.

Lexie Proctor won Ms. Photogenic in the 12- to 19-year-old category. The mother-daughter group “Bad Mamas” won a top first place for a version of Michael Jackson’s “Bad.”

“This is the biggest win my dance studio has had in 11 years,” said director/teacher Heidi Long. Sadie Anderson also choreographed some award-winning routines. All the routines qualified for Nationals in Las Vegas in July.

Dream Dancers Dance Studio has been in the Flathead Valley for 19 years.

For more information, call Long at 253-8847.