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Dancers from Charmion Performing Arts Center. (Submitted photo)
Dancers from Charmion Performing Arts Center of Circleville competed March 5 and 6 at the Encore Talent Productions regional dance competition in Mason, winning top honors and multiple special awards.
A total of 17 studios, hundreds of individual dancers and more than 267 entries participated in the event.
As a result of their overall performance, the Charmion competition team has qualified for the Encore Talent Productions national competition in June.
Awards earned by Charmion dancers at the regional competition are:
GROUPS:
- “Going to the Chapel” (Graces Manes, McKyla Mathews, Olivia Mock, Brooke Scotti, Chelsey Streitenberger and Amelia Tarbill): Gold and eighth place overall, Petite Small Group.
- “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (Maleah Gardner, Isabella Garner, Harper Kohli, Briseis Reategui and Naomi Stevens): High Gold and sixth place overall, Petite Small Group.
- “Cooties” (Allie Buckner, Jayden Hanrahan-Bruce, Quincy Lowery, Bailey Reid and Sydney Schultz): High Gold and third place overall, Junior Small Group.
- “Hard Knocked Life” (Maggie Gibson, Cierra Johnson, Natalie Keaton and Tabitha Skaggs): Gold and ninth place overall, Junior Small Group.
- “Jungle Rhythm” (Jenna Pence, Riley Rigsby, Emma Roberts, Corrine Sherrod and Shaeden Wymer): Gold, Petite Small Group.
- “Green Eggs & Ham” (Addison Lester, Emily Patrick, Ali Payton and Kyana Sponseller): High Gold, first place overall, Competitive Petite Small Group, Future Star Award.
- “I’d Bake You a Cake” (Liberty Hayward, Layla Imler, Audrey Pickett, Lily Purdy and Brooklyn Tiemeyer): Gold and 10th place overall, Petite Small Group.
- “Open Waters”: Gold and first place overall Teen Small Group.
DUETS:
- Emily Patrick and Ali Payton, “Mango Tree”: High Gold and first place overall, Competitive Petite Duet or Trio.
- Terra Neff and Connor Tapp, “My Immortal”: Platinum and first place overall, Junior Duet or Trio.
- Layla Robertson and Miranda Depugh, “Popular”: Gold and sixth place overall, Junior Duet or Trio.
- Paige Reynolds and Jessica Allison, “Fearless”: High Gold and second place overall, Junior Duet or Trio, Inspiration Award.
- Harper Kohli and Briseis Reategui, “Bippty Boppty Boo”: High Gold and fourth place overall, Petite Duet or Trio.
- Brooke Scotti and Taylor Stewart, “Sisters”: Gold and eighth place overall, Teen Duet or Trio.
TRIOS:
- Amelia Tarbill, McKyla Mathews and Olivia Mock, “Friend Like Me”: Gold and fifth place overall, Petite Duet or Trio.
- McKyla Mathews, Casey Gardner and Madison Kellough, “Show Me How to Burlesque”: Gold and first place overall, Senior Duet or Trio.
SOLOS:
- Kyana Sponseller, “A Drop in the Ocean”: Gold and fourth place overall, Competitive Petite Solo.
- Ali Payton, “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead”: High Gold, first place overall, Competitive Petite Solo, Most Entertaining Award.
- Maleah Gardner, “Opportunity”: Gold and eighth place overall, Petite Solo.
- Addison Lester, “Puttin’ on the Ritz”: Gold and second place overall, Competitive Petite Solo.
- Connor Tapp, “All I Need Is the Girl”: High Gold and third place overall, Competitive Junior Solo.
- Layla Robertson, “Alone”: Gold, Junior Solo.
- Miranda Depugh, “Heart Cry”: High Gold and eighth overall, Junior Solo.
- Allie Buckner, “I Want It Now”: Gold, Junior Solo.
- Cierra Johnson, “Liza With a Z”: Gold, Junior Solo.
- Naomi Stevens, “Mother Knows Best”: Gold, Junior Solo.
- Isabella Gardner, “My Boyfriend’s Back”: Gold, Junior Solo.
- Emily Patrick, “Twistin’ the Night Away”: Gold, Competitive Petite Solo.
- Connor Tapp, “Secrets”: High Gold, 10th place overall, Competitive Junior Solo.
- Tabitha Skaggs, “Man With a Hex”: Gold, Junior Solo.
- Casey Gardner, “So Much Better”: Gold, fifth place overall, Competitive Senior Solo.
- Terra Neff, “I Hope You Can Dance”: Gold, ninth place overall, Competitive Teen Solo.
- Madison Kellough, “Still I Rise”: High Gold, fourth place overall, Competitive Senior Solo.
- Maggie Welsh, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”: Gold, Senior Solo.
- Cydney Norpoth, “Eyelids”: Gold, Senior Solo.
- Destiny Whitt, “Gravity”: Gold, 10th place overall, Teen Solo.
- Taylor Stewart, “Upside Down”: High Gold, sixth place overall, Senior Solo.
This article originally appeared on The Pickaway News Journal
