Jamie’s Dance Force students win titles
Eddie Moody isn’t the only Jamie’s Dance Force student to find success.
Starpower, a national dance competition, selected two performers from Jamie’s as title-award champions during its regional competition in Columbus from Friday through Sunday.
Laura Tinkler, a sophomore at Canfield High School, won the title of Miss Starpower, and Lyndsay Olenych, an eighth-grader at Boardman Center Middle School, claimed the title of Teen Miss Starpower. Both performed solo dances and were awarded the titles by a panel of judges.
Brenna Frank, a senior at Poland High School, was named first runner-up for Miss Starpower, and Natalie DeGenova, a sophomore at Poland High School, was second runner-up. Joellin Chance, a freshman at Austintown Fitch High School, was first runner-up for Teen Miss Starpower.
“Girl Thing,” a production number featuring all the JDF competition dancers from ages 6 through 18, took top honors among Grand Lines, won an Other Excellence Award (not jazz, tap, or lyrical) and received Starpower’s Entertainment Award. “Distant Dreamer,” a senior small group, won a Jazz Excellence award, and “Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That,” a junior small group, received a Tap Excellence Award.
The competitive team next will travel to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for Starpower’s National Competition in late July. There the dancers will vie for top spots and entries in Starpower’s “Battle of the Stars” against dance studios from across the country. Jamie’s Dance Force is led by studio director/owner Jamie Domer Cordon.
Other highlights for Jamie’s Dance Force in the three-day Columbus competition, which included more than 500 dance routines, were: Frank’s solo, second place overall among senior solos; Frank and Tinkler’s duo, fourth place among senior duo/trios; “Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That,” fourth place among junior groups; “Freeze Frame,” fifth place among mini solo/trios; “If I Were a Boy,” fifth place among teen groups; “Circus,” fifth place among teen lines; Chance’s solo, sixth place among teen solos, and Olenych’s solo, ninth place among teen solos.