Beerwah’s golden girls
THE Beerwah Dance Company secured four inaugural state titles at the Dance X state championships on October 14-15, and received other accolades through their placings.
Beerwah High senior dance teacher, Jessica Rossberg, highlighted all the victories the school’s dance team achieved at the state competition, including the efforts of Grade Nine students, Taylah Gela and Lylah Chagas.
“Taylah was awarded first in the junior lyrical contemporary audition experience, and then third for the junior jazz audition experience and for her jazz solo, which won her a BPAC scholarship earlier this year,” she said.
“Lylah received first for the junior jazz audition experience and was state runner up for the junior lyrical contemporary audition experience.
“We are also state champions in junior jazz, senior contemporary dance, state runner up for our senior lyrical, and we got third place for our senior musical theatre and our senior hip hop.”
Whole Beerwah Dance Company Squad (pictured above)
Rossberg praised the Beerwah Dance Company for their achievements at such a young age especially against tough competition, and expressed how proud she and Beerwah High are of the squad.
“It was very tough, it was amazing to see all the other schools across Queensland but the talent was very strong across the state and we are very fortunate to have received all of those places, it was a really good weekend,” she said.
“The skills Taylah and Lylah have at this age is phenomenal because you look at the choreography they were doing, it wasn’t easy, but they really excelled in that so I’m proud of them.”
Dance X is a competition which is run by dance teachers across Queensland, originally starting as a regional competition last year, but ran its first state competition this year.
There were more than 15 schools who attended the Dance X state championships, from four regions; Brisbane, Gold Coast, Bundaberg and Sunshine Coast, and was held at the All Hallows School.
Dance X is in the early stages of creating a national competition for the state champions, however nothing is set in stone yet.
Main image: State Champions for Junior Jazz
