During Memorial Day weekend Dance Fever Charlotte owners Holly & Jason Cagle captained the National Shag Dance Team to a 1st place finish at the USA Grand Nationals!  The National Shag Team competed in the “team division” against dance teams from all over the world.  The National Shag Team performed a shag dance routine while their competitors performed swing, cabaret, and other dance forms.  Some of their competitors had traveled all the way from Paris to compete!  This year’s National Shag Dance Team included three members of the Dance Fever Charlotte family – Holly Cagle, Jason Cagle, and Krystal Bravo.  Other team members were Nikki Kontoulas, Jeff Hargett, Mandy Holt, Geoff Burdick, Kaitlyn Ellis, Brady Ellis, and Casey Cooper.

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On Saturday March 28th Dance Fever’s senior & petite competition teams attended the On Stage America Dance Competition in Hickory North Carolina.  This was the 2nd contest of the year for our dance teams and they put in an amazing performance which received 9 platinum awards (the highest) including two HIGH platinums.

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the members of our competition dance teams for the following results:

SOLOS:

Morgan Britton – HIGH Platinum

Savannah Everhardt – Platinum

Siri Pettersen – Platinum

Jessica Bukkhegyi – High Gold

Brianna Sharp – Gold

Cassie Carson – High Gold

Savannah Everhardt & Xavier Blakeney – Platinum

GROUP ROUTINES:

Senior Hip-Hop – Platinum

Senior Lyrical – Platinum & “Commitment Award”

Petit Hip-Hop – High Gold

Petit Tap – Platinum

Small Group – HIGH Platinum & Student Choreography Award

Large Group Production – Platinum

For more information on competition dance team at Dance Fever Charlotte or for info on our dance classes visit our website at www.dancefevercharlotte.com

Dance Fever Charlotte’s petite & senior competition dance teams competed on March 20-21st in Winston-Salem at the Encore DCS Dance Competition.  This was the first competition that our 2009-10 teams have attended and they had a wonderful first showing.

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The 2010 National Shag Dance Championships were held last weekend in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  Shag Nationals is the longest running shag dance contest in the USA featuring dancers aged 10 to 70 from Virginia through Georgia.  (more…)

Last weekend a shag dance contest was held in Greensboro, NC at Thirstys2.  Despite the bad weather, a good crowd turned out to compete both nights.  There were actually two different dance contests on each night.

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Dance Fever 2009 graduate Kelby Faw is currently a Freshman at Western Carolina University where she is a member of the WCU Dance Team.  Recently she earned a solo spot for the “Tik Tok” routine.  You can see a YouTube video of the dance performance at the following link:

Tik Tok

For more information on dance lessons and dance classes in Charlotte at Dance Fever Charlotte visit our website at www.dancefevercharlotte.com

Dance Fever Charlotte petite competition student Cassie Carson recently won the title of Jr. Miss Mecklenburg County when she performed a tap dance routine to “Wipe Out.”  

To the left is a picture of Cassie dancing in the pageant courtesy of Lenn Long (www.pageantpics.com)

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As the Christmas Holiday Season approaches, we wanted to remind you that dance classes in Charlotte make a great gift for the holidays.  Dance Fever Charlotte offers gift certificates for any of our dance classes offered in Charlotte. (more…)

With so many tap dancers making the cut this year on the hit TV show So You Think You Can Dance we thought it was time to take a moment and remind our students of some of the great tappers & hoofers who paved the way for today’s generation of tap dancers.

Many dance students today can’t name any pioneers of tap with the exception of perhaps Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly.  At Dance Fever Charlotte, students are greeted when they walk out of our dance classes in Charlotte with pictures of the Nicholas Brothers, Gregory Hines, and Saveon Glover hanging on the wall in front of them.  These photos serve as a reminder of the rich dance history of the United States.

Luckily, today’s technology gives dance students unprecedented access to video clips of the tap greats right on their own home computers.  Below are some of our favorite tap dance pioneers along with a link to Youtube videos of them live in action.
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On Sunday October 25th some members of the Dance Fever Charlotte competition dance team attended the SHOCK dance intensive workshop at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte.  Students in attendance included (L to R in picture above):  Cassie Carson, Allison Carte, Siri Pettersen, Elizabeth Fuller, Megan McDonald, Brenna Gilliam, Kori Smith, Morgan Britton, Savannah Everhardt, April Carte, and Jessica Hall.  The SHOCK is a nationally touring one-day intensive dance workshop that features classes with famous dancers & choreographers.
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