Odyssey Dance Competition

I was the offered the opportunity to shoot my very first dance competition with the Odyssey Dance Competition here at the University of Houston.  Wow!  These dancers had some moves!  There were some girls as young as 6 years old up on the stage just shaking it and moving and grooving in ways I just couldn't imagine they could do at such a young age!

This was my first opportunity to check out the Hintze Dance Company, and boy, did they bring it!

They had some great individual dance performances as well as small groups, but what was absolutely amazing was their large group ensemble dancing.  They had probably 25-30 dancers on the stage at a time, with dancers constantly going on and off.  Their costumes were fabulous, as their best number was a riff off of Alice in Wonderland.  Sweet!  It's pretty clear Ginny Hintze is getting these dancers ready for a potential professional career in dancing.

Here are some shots from the compeitition, but not all are Hintze dancers:

How often do you find three dancers who can kick like this?  Okay, now let's do it in unison:

If you ever need a dancer to underline the name of the competition, look no further:

Alexis, here below, won my BEST OF SHOW competition -- my best dance competition photo as judged by my visitors -- with this excellent shot of her with hair flying on a spin move and a big smile out to the judges and audience.  

 Take a look at this next series of three shots.  This was all the same dancer in an individual performance during the morning.  Three great shots, one right after another!