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NYC Day 2

Thursday, July 9, 2009
On Thursday morning, I awoke early to go watch the TDA teens compete their Outstanding Dancer solos. I left Kai with Karen and went down stairs to grab a coffee and watch the girls. I believe there were about 100 girls in the Teen division. All of their solos were very spread out, so I watched what I could, then went upstairs to get Kai ready. Her orientation started at 11:00 a.m.
After getting her ready, we went downstairs so that she could turn in her solo music, and draw a number for her solo. She drew #40, so she would be the 40th Junior to perform her solo for Outstanding Dancer. There was a total of 112 Juniors. In the orientation meeting, the girls all received NYCDA bags with personalized NYCDA Jackets and their audition number badges that they were to wear at all times, except when competing on stage. They immediately went into rehearsals for the opening number for the Junior gala with Joey Dowling. While the girls were rehearsing, Karen and I found a very good pizza place down the street from the hotel and we had lunch. We went to Duane Read to buy water, and misc supplies for our rooms. The girls got a break for lunch and we took them to the same restaurant for some pizza.


Kai needed some tan Jazz shoes for the opening number, and I had not had a chance to buy them before we left, so her and I headed to the Capezio store to buy them. Here she is goofing off while we waited for someone to help us.

And, back to rehearsals they went. They had an onstage rehearsal, and it lasted quite a while. After that, the girls just wanted a Jamba Juice for dinner. We arrived at the Jamba Juice in Times Square, and we ran into Twitch from last seasons, So You Think You Can Dance. It was a nice surprise for them. He also had a friend with him, who he told us to take a picture of the girls with because he was starring in the next Step It Up movie.


Kyndal, Tatum, Twitch and Kai

Girls with guy from Step It Up movie

We then headed to Roxy's (yes, the one with the best cheesecake in the world) for a late dinner, and off to bed to prepare for another crazy day. It would be a busy day for the the girls again. First they had to compete their solos and then rehearsals too. The TDA Teens and Seniors were all done with their solos and they had all done fantastic.

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