Lagoon Results!!

AMAZING!!!! Are you kidding me?!?? You guys are seriously amazing. Way to end the year with a bang! We are so proud of you guys! Amazing scores!! Great work!!

More Human-3rd
Get it Girl-1st
Flames- 3rd
Sister-1st
Flintstones-1st
Razzle Dazzle-5th
Little Wonders-3rd
Colors of the Wind-3rd
Tea Party-1st
Lara-2nd
Howl-1st
Beat of the Bee-2nd
First Train Home-1st
First Love-3rd
Power-2nd
Makin' Money-1st (sweepstakes winner!)
Crossroads-3rd

Lagoon Lineup... Important News

Our Lagoon competition is next Saturday! It's looking like it should be a SUNNY day in the high 70's! FINALLY!!! As always this lineup is tentative and will most likely be changed. For now here it is:

1- More Human at 10:36 am be there at 9:30 am
2- Get It Girl at 10:54 am be there at 9:30 am
3- Night of the Dancing Flames at 11:21 am be there at 10:00 am
4- Sister at 11:39 am
5- Flintstones at 12:23 pm be there at 11:15
6- Razzle Dazzle at 1:42 pm be there at 12:30
7- Little Wonders at 2:15 pm
8- Colors of the Wind at 2:27 pm
9- Tea Party at 2:36 pm
10- Lara at 2:54 be there at 1:30
11- Howl at 3:20 be there at 2:00
12- Beat of the Bee at 3:32
13- First Train Home at 3:48 be there at 2:30
14- First Love at 4:03
15- Power at 4:21 pm be there at 3:15
16- Makin' Money at 4:43 be there at 3:30
17-Crossroads at 4:53 be there at 3:30
All group dances are held in the Davis Pavilion, located near The Jet Star.

Izze's solo is at 11:15 am on the Meadows Stage
Alexis' solo is at 2:18 pm also on the Meadows Stage

Awards are scheduled at 5:45 pm or approximately 45 minutes after the group competition ends.

All dancers and parents must have coupons for discounted admission. Pick up your passes at the studio, parking passes= $3 parking, discount passes=$29.95 ($27.95 for kids 3 and under). Spectator pass (no rides)=$10 and Dancers are free (no rides). Rides open at 10:00. Your call time listed above is the time you should meet at the Axis tent, not the time to arrive at the park. Please allow an hour to an hour and a half for the ticket line process. Please don't allow dancers to ride rides between their dances, wait until their dances are completed for the day before letting them play. Thanks!

NEXT ON THE AGENDA!!

As many of you may have heard, Axis is closing it's doors. We're all pretty bummed about it and are saddened by the truth that many of our dancers, whom we've worked so hard with and have seen improve above and beyond for the past few years, will be forced to find new studios. Tiffany and Kalli are lucky enough to have worked at other studios this past year and have built outstanding relationships with these studio directors. We're strongly encouraging Axis students to enroll at these schools, both of which are nearby to Axis.
One studio is Advanced Performance Dance (AP Dance) in Daybreak. 11557 Roselawn Way (5005 W). The owner is Julie Fisher. Please visit her website: apdance.weebly.net you can also email her with any questions at apdance01@yahoo.com

The other is Extravadance in West Jordan. 8524 S Welby Farm Road (4300w). The owner is Cindy Wiggins. Extravadance's website is: extravadancestudio.com you can also call the studio with any questions at 801-280-0838

At both studios your students will continue to grow and learn in a challenging and positive atmosphere. Both studios offer competition teams for ages 5 and older and are awarded highly at competitions. As well Ap Dance and Extravadance offer combo and recreational classes. The directors of both AP Dance and Extravadance are veterans in the dance world and are extremely dedicated to providing quality dance education to their students.

You are always welcome to ask Tiffany and Kalli any questions about either studio, or any other studios for that matter. The most important thing to both of us, is that your dancers are moving on to a quality school and that they'll continue to improve and develop into the beautiful dancers we see them growing into.

Parents and students, thanks for all your hard work, for your patience, your dedication and your support in these past years. We really are so lucky to have this job, it's your dancers that make our job what it is and we love it. Please keep in touch with us, we love to see how our dancers are doing and how they're growing. You can find us both on Facebook, please look for us there!
WE LOVE YOU ALL!!

Dates to Remember

Here it is! We're in June! That means we're almost done with the dance year. OH MY GOODNESS!!
We're pretty busy this month, here are all the dates you need to remember.

Friday, June 10th
Company Team Year End Party
from 5-7 at Jump N Bounce

Also on June 10th
Riverton Arts Festival
Call time is 8:00
Show order is:

Get it Girl
Mad
Hey Ya'
Tea Party
Le Disco
Don't Stop Believing
Making Money
Flames
Super!
Howl
Earth Intruders

Saturday, June 11th
LAGOON COMPETITION!!!
I ordered up some sunny weather and warned the clouds to stay away this year!
As soon as we have the lineup we'll post it.

Thursday, June 16th
Dress Rehearsals and Recital at Bingham
Line up is at the studio for both of these.
Double check that your student's names are spelled correctly for the program.

Saturday, June 18th
South Jordan parade.

Then we're done.
Please do not skip classes in these next two weeks. It's crucial your students are in class before the recital and competition.

Thanks for all your hard work!! :)

GRAND CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!

ALRIGHT AXIS!! You guys all did so great this weekend. WAY TO GO!!!

Here are the results.
Flintstones- Sapphire- 2nd place
First Love- Sapphire- 3rd place
Tea Party- Sapphire- 2nd place
First Train Home- Diamond- 1st Place- Grand Champions
Sister- Sapphire- 3rd place
Colors of the Wind- Emerald- 4th place
Little Wonders- Sapphire- 1st place
Razzle Dazzle- Sapphire- 2nd place
Howl- Ruby- 1st place
Beat of the Bee- Sapphire- 2nd place
Lara- Sapphire- 3rd place
Makin' Money- Ruby- 2nd place
Crossroads- Ruby- 1st place- Grand Champions
Night of the Dancing Flames- Ruby- 2nd place
More Human- Sapphire- 3rd place
Power- Sapphire- 2nd place


WAY TO GO!!!

We're so proud.

Aspire Kearns Competition May 7

Great job at Alta Ridge dancers! The residents loved you all and can't wait to see you dance again. You made Miss Kalli get all teary eyed! We're so proud of you guys! Now we're totally ready to kick it into high gear for our next competition!!
It's at Kearns High 5525 Cougar Ln (4800 West), May 7th (solos are the night before). Admission is FREE!!! Admission is free, so bring the whole family to cheer on these amazing dancers!!!

This is only a PRELIMINARY schedule and changes may be made to it. We will keep this post as up to date as possible with any changes that occur. For now, please plan on the following schedule.

Please note dances marked with >a are held in the auditorium and dances marked with >g are held in the gym.

#104 Tea Party 9:11 >a
#111 First Love 9:33 >a
#112 Flintstones 9:36 >a
#124 Razzle Dazzle 10:12 >a
#130 Colors of the Wind 10:30 >a
#131 First Train Home 10:32 >a
#132 Little Wonders 10:35 >a
#145 Sisters 11:16 >a

12:10- Awards for all dances performed prior to 12:20 including mini high point.

#403 Beat of the Bee 12:53 g
#416 Howl 1:48 >g
#432 Laura 2:19 >g
#446 Makin' Money 2:49 >g
#447 Night of the Dancing Flames 2:51 >g
#452 Crossroads (b-boys) 3:16 >g
#409 Power 3:17 >g

3:20- Junior, Teen and Elite awards.

To make it easy, these are the times you need to arrive.

Xcite- be there by 8:30 am
Xcell- be there by 8:30 am
Xtraordinaire- be there by 8:00 am
Xpress- be there by 8:30 am
Xhilaration- be there by 9:30 am
Xhale- be there by 10:15 am
Xtreme Funk- be there by 2:00 pm
Xtreme Hype- be there by 2:00 pm
Xtreme Riot- be there by 12:00 pm
Xtreme B-Boys- be there by 2:15 pm

First awards are at 12:10 to 12:50
Second awards are at 3:20 to 4:00

Solos are Friday from 4:00 to 8:30 if you want to come support our two soloists! :)

Remember this is only a preliminary schedule and changes will probably be made.

Let's work extra hard in class this next week and a half so we can kick some BOOTY!!

*updated Monday May 4th*

Alexander's Burial Fund

Here is a link to donate to Natalie and Stetson's son Alexander's burial fund. We all love Natalie and are grieving with her at this time. Any little bit helps, any words of kindness and thoughts and prayers are well appreciated and very helpful. Thank you for the love and support you've all already shown. How truly grateful we are to have such a wonderful dance family.
Thanks again.
Kalli, Tiffany and Axis Dance Center

Please click here to be directed to the donation site.

Alta Ridge Performance

Great job at our first competition guys! We rocked it! We brought home a bunch of firsts and scored super high on all of our dances! Now that we've been working our booties off (and will keep working them off) these past few weeks, we're going to do so well at our next competition. We don't want our dances to get rusty though, so we've got a sweet little performance set up for the residents at Alta Ridge Retirement Center (1928 West 9800 South). Just a few dances have been chosen to perform. Please arrive at 10:30 am with hair and makeup done, we'll begin at 11:00, and should be no longer than 1/2 hour.
The order of the performance is:

1.Flintstones
2.Little Wonders
3.Izze's Solo
4.First Love
5.Colors of the Wind
6.Alexis Solo
7.Witch Doctor (Kalli's combo)
8.Flames
9.Razzle Dazzle
10.First Train Home

We're excited to show off our adorable dancers. :)
Remember, our next competition is May 6&7 at Kearns High School. We'll post the lineup as soon as we get it.
Thanks for all your hard work and dedication!
WE LOVE YOU GUYS!
AXIS ROCKS!!!

Medallion Classic Comp Times

Hey everyone, we have our comp times for our March competition. The competition is being held at the SLCC Redwood Campus (4600 South Redwood Road) in the Bruins Arena located in the Lifetime Activities Center. It begins at 9:00 am, spectators pay to get in $5 for everyone 6 and older, free if you're 5 or younger. Dancers need to be there 1 1/2 hour before their dance is scheduled to perform. Keep in mind this is a tentative schedule, it can and probably will change, but for now this is the schedule we're following. Also, this competition has a history of running on time or early they will not stop the competition to catch up.

12. Beat of the Bee (Novelty) be there at 8:30 am go on around 10:00 am

15. Flintstones (Xcite and Xcell) be there at 9:00 am go on around 10:15 am

19. Laura (Xpress) be there at 9:00 am goon around 10:30 am

27. Razzle Dazzle (Xtraordinaire) be there at be there at 9:15 go on around 10:45

37. Howl (Xhilaration) be there at 10:00 (or earlier you've got the most makeup) go on around 11:30

45. Colors of the Wind (Xcell) be there at 11:00 go on around 12:30

50. Flames (Xhale) be there at 11:30 go on around 12:50

55. Tea Party (Xtraordinaire) be there at 11:30 go on around 1:00

60. First Train Home (Xhilaration) be there at 12:00 go on around 1:25

69. Little Wonders (Xtraordinaire) go on around 2:00

78. Get it Girl (Cheer) be there at 1:00 go on around 2:30

79. First Love (Xpress) be there at 1:00 go on around 2:30

85. Makin' Money (Xtreme Funk) be there at 1:30 go on around 3:00

95. Power (Xtreme Hype) Be there at 2:15 go on around 3:45

107. More Human (Xtreme Riot) go on around 4:00

108. Sister (Xhale) go on around 4:00 (obviously sisters or more human will have to be changed, don't panic).

Awards are scheduled for 5:15

Please come with hair and make up ready. Wear your warm ups to and from the competition. Do not walk around the competition in your costumes, wear your warm ups. Wear your warms ups to awards as well. We love to see our pink and black jumping up and down. :)

We are going to do so well. AXIS ROCKS!!!!!

B.A.C.A. Fundraiser

Axis Dance Centers Adult dance team X-pressions will be performing at this charitable event. Please come and help us raise money and awareness against child abuse!!!

World Unity Through Dance

No child deserves to live in fear

Net proceeds donated to B.A.C.A.

www.worldunitythroughdance.org

• Dance performance (all varieties of dance) March 5, 2011
• Afternoon 5:30 pm, Evening 8:00 pm Utah Arts Alliance 2191 So. 3^rd W. Salt Lake City, Utah 841115
• Admission $10.00 per seat Call Linda for questions 801-867-5660

Mandatory Dress Rehearsal

We will be having our first mandatory dress rehearsal on March 12 from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. There is a $15.00 fee for this and must be paid before the rehearsal. All team members are required to attend this rehearsal. This is a great opportunity to perform in front of a larger audience and to show off our hard work before we take them to competition the following week on the 19th. One parent or responsible adult should be present for this rehearsal for costume, makeup and hair changes for all students 12 and under. Please be sure that your student has all of their costumes, accessories and makeup that is required for each dance. You may send snacks and water or money for them.
Thanks,
Axis Dance Center

Picture Schedule.

Picture day for all comp teams is this weekend, March 5th. Pictures start at 10:00 am. Your student will need to come with performance makeup and hair. For those students that have different hair styles and makeup they will need to have everything with them to make those changes as well as their costumes. Students must be at the studio at least 15 minutes before their class is scheduled for pictures and they are required to stay until all of their dances have had their pictures taken. Please bring snacks, water or money for them if you'd like.

10:00am Breakdance Boys
10:20am Xcite and Xcell- Flintstones
11:00am Xtreme Hype Hard- Knock Life
11:25am Xtraordinaire- Tea Party
12:10pm Xcell- Colors of the Wind
1:25pm Xtraordinaire- Razzle Dazzle
1:45pm Xhale- Sisters
2:25pm Xtraordinaire- Little Wonders
3:15pm Xtreme Funk- Make $$
3:45pm Xtreme Riot- More Human
4:00pm Xhilaration- First Train Home
4:35pm Xpress- Laura
5:15pm Xhale- Flames
5:35pm Xpress- First Love
6:00pm Cheer
6:30pm Novelty- Beat of the Bee
6:45pm Xhilaration- Howl

Xcite, Xcell and Xtraordinaire Hair Tutorial

I did my best on this tutorial... if you've met Izze, you know she's a wiggle worm and hard to keep still. I was only using my phone for the pictures and you have to forgive my messy bathroom, try not to judge me, I'm a busy dance teacher and a mom! :)


OK, the first steps are the same for all the teams. I start by wetting down the top of her head and parting it on left.





Next, I section off a small rectangle (maybe an inch or slightly less) in the front, if your daughter has bangs section off just a little bit more than the bangs. I make sure this is pretty wet so it'll stay in place, maybe even spritz some hairspray.





Now you twist, start at the part, twist a tiny bit, then slowly add hair as you twist across, ending on the other side. Without adding anymore hair, keep twisting a little bit to keep the twist tight.



Add a very small section of non-twisted hair and fasten to the twist using a small, clear ponytail holder. My extra section is a little bigger so you can see it better.



This next part is mostly for the Flintstone hairdo. And where it got to be too hard for Izze to hold still... Pulling up the sides and leaving most of the back down, pull into a ponytail, don't pull the pony all the way through.




I don't have a bone, so I used a bow instead. Use your bone to prop up your spikes and hairspray them into place. Straighten the hair that is down, slightly flip it out too. Hairspray EVERYTHING... and then hairspray it again... and then once more for good measure. Then I'll probably spray it too... just to be safe. Just make sure everything is smooth and going to stay in place.




For Colors of the wind and all Xtraordinaire.

Pull up sides and leave most of the back down, pull into a ponytail, slightly lower than Flintstones hair. Straighten and flip out the hair that is down.




This is how it looks from the front. Hairspray everything into place, make sure it's smooth and not going to fall out.





I sure hope this helps all of you and I hope it's easy enough to understand.

If it's not I'll try to find a video or I'll make a quick video tutorial. If you have questions please let me know!

-
Kalli

Welcome to the Axis Blog!

I'm hoping this blog will help us all keep track of what's going on at Axis and to keep everyone informed. At the very least we can share hair tutorials, makeup tutorials and our love of Axis!
:)