❒ Benicia’s Stage One wins mountain of hardware in recent regional competition
By David Ryan Palmer
Assistant Editor
Benicia is chock full of skilled dancers. Just look at all the trophies they win.
Several young dancers from Benicia’s Stage One Dance Center won top awards recently at MOVE Production’s regional dance competition last weekend.
Along with the nonprofit North Bay Performing Arts dancers, Stage One, 390 Military East, swept the Santa Clara competition, with five groups receiving first place “high gold” awards and two groups gaining platinum awards.
“This was a regional competition where dancers from all across the Bay Area, as well as some from out of state, perform,” said Julie Sevier, Stage One artistic director. “I’m always so proud of them. They are all very dedicated to the art of dance.”
Sevier and her teams submitted seven dance routines at the competition, and each one brought home an award. “They work very hard when they are up there performing,” Sevier said.
The dancers, who perform jazz, tap, and ballet routines, have “five or six classes a week, and we’ve been rehearsing for about seven or eight months,” she said.
Their next performance? The Kids Artistic Revue in Alameda in May. After that, Stage One will host its own showcase in Vallejo High School’s Hogan Auditorium.
Sevier said without the support of the dancers’ parents, none of it would be possible. “We do have a wonderful group of absolutely dedicated parents,” she said.
Find out more at stage1dance.com/.
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