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Larisa and Ryan Eronemo on Glass House Dance and living their business model.

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Susan Epstein’s steps to a successful post-dance career!

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DEBBIE ALLEN’S FREEZE FRAME: REAL, RAW, AND INSPIRING

The legend of stage and screen reveals an emotional journey through Freeze Frame…Stop the Madness.

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AND THE WINNERS ARE… WORLD CHAMPIONS – ADVANCED Petite SM Groups - “Mr. Personality” Jordon School of Dance & PA - England Petite LG Groups - “Children of War” Jordon School of Dance & PA - England Petite Lines - “ABRACADABRA” Prestige Dance Academy - USA Junior SM Groups - “Bitter Earth” TKO Dance Academy - USA Junior LG Groups - “Bye Bye Blackbird” Dancers Burlington - Canada Junior Lines - “Let’s Get Soaking Wet” Miss Donna’s School of Dancing - USA

The World Dance Championship - a world championship featuring the best of the best from ALL over the world. This amazing event hosted fabulous performers from the United States, Canada, China, Australia and United Kingdom. Dancers qualified and received “Golden Ticket” Invitations from all of the Star Dance Alliance events in 2016.

The atmosphere was nothing but pure excitement, professionalism, and the stage was on fire with incredible talent. The WDC production value was over-the-top with lighting, live interviews and even a live broadcast every day of the competition. It was a wonderful and successful event. Congratulations to all of the winners!

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Teen SM Groups - “Slave” TKO Dance Academy - USA Teen LG Groups - “Do Your Remember” Miss Donna’s School of Dancing - USA Teen Lines - “Bruno 2.0” Michelle Ferraro’s Dance USA - USA Senior SM Groups - “UTOPIA” Dolce Dance Studio - USA Senior LG Groups - “P.O.W.” Miss Donna’s School of Dancing - USA Senior Lines - “Breaking Down Walls” Miss Donna’s School of Dancing - USA 11 & Under Grand Lines - “Latin Flair” Dance Sensations Dance Studio - USA 12 & Over Grand Lines - “Prince” TKO Dance Academy - USA WORLD CHAMPIONS - INTERMEDIATE Petite SM Groups - “Kites” Victory Talent - USA Petite LG Groups - “Little Red” First Class Dance Academy - USA Petite Lines - “New Rules of China” Beijing DongSiJinTiao Primary Elementary - China Junior SM Groups - “Hey Pachuco” The Dance Factory, Inc. - USA Junior LG Groups - “X-Treme” Sloan’s Dance Studio - USA Junior Lines - “Rhythm Nation” Don’t Stop Dancin’ - USA Teen SM Groups - “Damaged” Michelle Ferraro’s Dance USA - USA Teen LG Groups - “Once Upon A Time” Creative Edge Dance Academy - USA Teen Lines - “Blooming Flowers” Atlanta Professional Dance Academy - USA Senior SM Groups - “We Still In This” Funk Lab Dance Center - USA Senior LG Groups - “Hometown” TKO Dance Academy - USA

11 & Under LG Groups - “Mad Dogs” The Dance Factory, Inc. - USA 11 & Under Lines - “Rule The School” Winding Springs Elementary - USA 12 & Over SM Groups - “To This Day” Shoreline Dance Academy - USA 12 & Over LG Groups - “Clap Snap” All The Right Moves Dance Center - USA

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WORLD CHAMPIONS - NOVICE 11 & Under SM Groups - “Grace” Dancers For His Glory - USA

WORLD DANCE PAGEANT 2016 WINNERS & TITLES

LIGHTS… CAMERA… DANCE… WDP! The World Dance Pageant prepares today’s dancer for the future. In today’s competitive world both in and out of the studio, every experience is important! The WDP experience teaches dancers how to audition and interview for the rest of their life. Year after year, The World Dance Pageant is the most elite solo event of the season. Dancers from all over the world come to compete for the title of Mr. or Miss World Dance.

Contestants participate in four phases of competition: audition classes, interviews, modeling and talent. The World Dance Pageant looks for well-rounded, educated and talented dancers to represent their organization. When they’re not competing, dancers are in rehearsals and learning an opening routine that wows at the WDP Finale. What makes The World Dance Pageant most special are friendships and camaraderie the talented individuals take home with them. Dancers leave the event with a new dance family, who will cheer them on in the WDP Finale as finalists are announced and solos are performed one more time to see who will be crowned Mr. and Miss World Dance.

MISS WORLD DANCE CAMRYN MANDELBAUM Expressenz Dance Center (USA)

TEEN MR. WORLD DANCE GARRETT GLATZ Studio Bleu Dance Center (USA)

TEEN MISS WORLD DANCE MACKENZIE BROWN Studio Bleu Dance Center (USA)

JUNIOR MR. WORLD DANCE JUSTIN STILLWAGON Studio L (USA)

JUNIOR MISS WORLD DANCE CASEY TRAN The Dance Zone (CANADA)

PETITE MR. WORLD DANCE MATTHEW EVERS Michelle Ferraros Dance USA (USA)

PETITE MISS WORLD DANCE ASHA ROSTRON A.P. Performers (AUSTRALIA)

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The 2016 pageant was even more exquisite and prestigious than years past. The amount of dedication and hard work that these talented artists exhibited was so impressive on every level. Inside Dance is honored to bring you the 2016 Mr. and Miss World Dance winners!

MR. WORLD DANCE TION GASTON Miss Donna’s School of Dance (USA)

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By: Braham Logan Crane

Executive Director, Artists Simply Human

Six years ago, in December of 2010, I launched what I thought would be a once a year workshop. At the time I felt the dance convention industry was in need of a refreshing change, which would take dancers back to the basics and remind them of why they fell in love with dance in the first place. I wanted to create a new workshop experience called “Artists Simply Human (ASH)” and bring together dancers from many different backgrounds and locations in one place and pair them with the most cutting edge master teachers and choreographers. It was my intent to facilitate a connection between the masters and students where inspiration and passion for dance would grow on all sides. Fast forward five seasons, and what was meant to be a once a year event, has expanded to 20 regional cities, a one of a kind Nationals event in Orlando, and a NYC summer intensive. I couldn’t be happier with what the ASH team and I have accomplished collectively, and I invite you to share in the experience with us. Whether you’ve joined us before, or are new to the ASH family, you can expect to find an experience of inspiration, motivation, renewal, passion, heart and growth to embrace you and take you to new dance heights. We have been beyond fortunate these past five seasons to witness many incredible moments, and to be a part of the amazing journeys of countless dancers, teachers Photo Bek Martin

and parents. If the past five seasons are any indication of what’s to come, I could not be more thrilled and excited to face the future of Artists Simply Human.

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Debbie Allen

Still Real, Raw and Inspiring

By Christy Sandmaier Photography By Cassandra Plavoukos FREEZE FRAME...Stop the Madness Photography By Lee Tonks & Oliver Bokelberg Speaking with Ms. Debbie Allen is speaking with her soul. Almost stealing a glimpse into art exactly as it was meant to be seen, heard, experienced, felt. The creation and resulting depth of her newest stage sensation, FREEZE FRAME...Stop the Madness speaks to her own soul in a way nothing else could. And her dream, her hope is that all of us embrace its message. A profound picture bigger than ourselves, it hopes to captivate and inspire, championing a deep cause and dream come to life on stage.

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It was this dream that began in Houston, Los Angeles, New York and every road in between. Debbie Allen hit it big in 1980, starring in a Broadway revival of West Side Story earning her a Tony® nomination.

And who can forget her portrayal of dance teacher Lydia Grant in the movie Fame? The film evolved into a successful television spinoff and pop cult-classic in 1982, in which Allen co-starred and won three Emmy® awards for choreography. Behind the scenes, behind the camera she produced the ‘90s sitcom A Different World and now, the current ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy. She also produced Amistad, a 1997 drama that garnered four Oscar® nods but was so famously shut out of the winner’s circle.

Director, dancer, choreographer, author and artist, through all of the accolades, Allen’s principles and her belief in the purity of art, her projects and her passion to give everyone a voice never wavered.

Tackling a tough subject matter as she has in FREEZE FRAME...Stop the Madness, Allen hopes for more conversations than awards. More cultural change than headlines.

FREEZE FRAME...Stop the Madness premiered at the Brisbane Festival in Australia in 2013, but Allen says the run at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills marked its true debut. It’s a multi-media show fusing together dance, art, music, theater and film. In October, it graces the stage of the Kennedy Center where Allen is considered a fan-favorite. She wrote many of the lyrics, woke up to song, woke up to answers. Listening to her describe the process is almost therapeutic. Most captivating immediately was the subject matter itself and the ability to keep it brilliantly raw on stage each night. The show captures snapshots of the streets of LA. It combines all the show-stopping elements of a musical, lights, camera, action, so to speak, with multimedia effects, colorful costuming, original music and lyrics, singing, acting and of course brilliant electrifying dance on its edge.

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Shayna Ambers, 17 Independence High School Frisco, Texas In addition to dancing, writing and studying, you might just catch Shayna on the Flying Trapeze.

Captain in her senior year, she is a member of the National Honor Society and International Thespian Society. As a dancer, she is focused on the art of dance and stepping out of her comfort zone.

Alena Horvath, 17 McKinney High School Fairview, Texas Alena exceeds both in and outside of the classroom. Receiving an excellence award in math her freshman year and in fine arts in her junior year, she has been dancing for 15 years. She maintains a 3.9 GPA and says she cherishes her time spent on drill team, a team she will captain again in her senior year.

Halle-Brooke Barnard, 14 Purvis High School Purvis, Mississippi Freshman Halle-Brooke is committed to setting a good example to her teammates and peers by representing the sport that she loves. A member of the Purvis High Dazzlers Dance Team, she spent her summer at the Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive.

Maggie Jacobson, 16 Buchholz High School Gainesville, Florida Maggie stays busy by setting her own high standards in dance, in her studies and in the community. Outside of her dance team she participates in the DECA Competitions Academy of Entrepreneurship. She is a true leader who hopes to share her love for dance for many years to come.

Samantha Macias, 16 El Toro High School Trabuco Canyon, California Dancing competitively since the age of 7, Samantha is a super-determined and talented high school junior who is not afraid to take risks and go outside of her comfort zone to improve her skills and experience.

She is incredibly involved in her church as a core team members, allowing her the opportunity to mentor and make an impact.

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iD and CC Dancewear are proud to present the inaugural 2016 High School All-American Dance Team! In addition to being all-around dancer team members, these individuals are making the grade, taking on numerous extracurricular activities and never shying away from helping out around their community. These high school dancers show what it takes to go above and beyond, both on and off the sidelines, basketball courts and performance stage. Congratulations to the inaugural members of the 2016 High School All-American Dance Team!

Mahin Master, 16 South Brunswick High School Princeton, New Jersey Mahin is proud to have been raised with traditional Indian values and the American ideals he grew up with. He learned early on from his mother the classical dance of “Bharatanatyam” and Bollywood and now teaches in her studio. In addition to being a member of his high school’s honor roll, he and his sister created their own charity - each year they champion a cause and raise money through a dance event.

Kerrington Nolte, 16 Carroll High School Fort Wayne, Indiana Three-time Indiana High School Dance Team Association Champion, Kerrington is a member of the National Honor’s Society and holds a 3.8 GPA. Her goal is to be a part of the Louisville Ladybirds Dance Team. In her free time, she volunteers weekly for a local hospital.

Sierra Nelson, 16 Sioux Falls Washington High School Sioux Falls, South Dakota A Featured Dancer in “Bloom,” a project promoting youth artists working mentors in their hometowns, Sierra is the 2015 World Champion in Sr Hip Hop at the USASF Dance Worlds. A 2015-2016 Academic Achievement Award Winner, she says dance has taught her the greatest lessons in life.

Payton St. John, 16 Magnificat High School Avon, Ohio Payton wishes to pursue a professional career in dance following a college or conservatory education. The recipient of numerous awards for academics and dance, she participates in school musicals, is a contributing author to her school newspaper and is equally as dedicated to community service projects.

Cali Wery, 17 Deerfield High School Deerfield, Wisconsin On her high school honor roll for three years and UDA All-American Soloist, Cali is a senior and Team Captain. Dancing and supporting her school has been one of her favorite parts of high school, along with volunteering and giving back to her community.

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TEACHER4TEACHER Glass House Dance: Seeing the Difference Inside Dance chatted with them right before their fall opening. Oh, and did we say fate? Well, after much anxiety over their chosen studio location, things got complicated time-wise and a twelfth hour move looked to be in the cards. “We’ve spent six months working a deal at one location, just to jump ship literally with lease in hand, and seal a deal elsewhere in just one week...Timing is a strange thing…” says Larisa.

For Larisa and Ryan Eronemo, you could say fate is a huge part of their equation. But the vision for their school was always clear: to have a place where everyone feels included, where everyone’s voice was valid, and everyone’s path is valid. It’s the idea of inclusion. Of transparency and of never conforming to a mold or expectation of what dance should be. For every student at every age, the journey is different and at Glass House Dance in Sammamish, Washington that journey is not only embraced, it sets the foundation of the new program.

Accomplished dancers in their own right with super-stocked resumes, Larisa and Ryan, after realizing that competing with a dance school on every corner was not part of their plan, the two travelled from Phoenix to Washington to work on the next stage of their careers. It’s been a roller coaster ride waiting for the launch but just last month, students came through the doors. A lot of students!

A home secured, here’s a little more about this couple, in their own words.

On their goals…

Ryan: We are really focused on developing the individual artistry of the dancer and really fostering a love and respect for the art form.

Regardless of their skill set or their age, there is something deeper they can take away. We start doing that with even our youngest dancers, so they can really get the true appreciation of the art form and really expressing their creativity. We also want them involved in their community. Connecting with local issues is a great message to send at the launch of something beautiful.

On the studio ownership business…

Larisa: We finally made our move to Washington which was really scary because we were making a very comfortable living in Phoenix.

We got a lot of questions. Well, do you have any dancers? No. Do you know any teachers? No. We’re just going. We did our due diligence and tried to pick a place where there was a real need, where kids needed dance and where there was a lack of dance studios. We wanted to start fresh. What we’re finding out now is we’ve had to consider what and who is right for our business model. Someone might have an incredible hip hop background, for example, but if he doesn’t have the same beliefs and goals as our model, that person isn’t right for us. We’re trying to not let ego take over and live our business model.

Ryan: We’re finding that we’re looking for characteristics so special, they aren’t necessarily easily fit onto a resume.

On the industry…

Larisa: We’re finding that unless you’re good, unless you have this God-given dance talent, kids just aren’t coming back to dance class.

It’s happening too often. What if that “back row” dancer is the hardest working dancer in the classroom? At the end of the day, these are still children and we want to reward those that deserve recognition with their skills and their work ethic. Everyone should have a place in the classroom, especially dance. That’s our universal language.

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