Monday, September 7, 2009

Moved back to AZ and did Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Opening scene for the brides...spying on Adam and Milly before we meet Mr. Pontipee:)
Alice telling Milly that "Adam isn't even a Presbyterian!" ...Sarah (me being ashamed)

Sarah meeting her sweet love at the town social, Frank:)
Alice and Sarah can fly?? hahaha Our boy's brother's stealing us from our suitors and spinning us in the air over to our brother's!
Last scene...getting married to our boys!....I DOOOOOOOOOOO!

After CGCC Dance Program, UTAH!!! Yes, I moved to UT for a couple months...interesting!

Two of my girls and roommates, right before we went 80's dancing in Salt Lake at Area 51
My Hatian friend, Eden! Sweet guy! Us at a JAZZ Bsketball game! WE WON!

Josh and I at the 5 cent arcade! We had a blast!

K, I'm not sure if it is, but this should be illegal...taking a fog light and shining it out the back window of Brenner's truck...flashing it off and on when we were stopped at lights as if it were a dance light! EVERYONE watched us! Made a couple girls mad too...oops!...our fun adventure on our way to Cabela's!
Clarissa During her MDT performance! Pretty girl! She did great!

After Graduation, I attended Chandler Gilbert Community College in the Dance Program

Baby-White Chocolate!...my nick name at CGCC in the dance department! hahaha You gotta earn your names there! hahaha
"Firepower-foursome" Our dance group! Me, Ivory, Nate, Nicole! Most fresh hip-hop group in AZ! Woot woot!
That's my boy...big brudda, Nate! He's from London and the biggest sweetheart!
Give em' somethin' FrEsHHHHH!

Choreographers for "Firepower-Foursome"!!!

LIGHT got me CoNnEcTeD! hahaha Y.A.S.E. Camp and Exposure Camp

Standing on the stage at BYU Pardo after year one of YA Camp-Footloose!
TANNER! This was my buddy at YA Camp when I did 'A New World'...my last year

All my fabulous YA's!! Josie girl!...you're struttin' that black belt girl! And the tie!


Waiting to see 'Beauty and the Beast' at Hale Center Theatre

Awe...my favorite year with Les, Clissa and Meg! Mamma Mia!!!...waiting to see 'Rag Time' at Hale Center Theatre
Along with LIGHT, I got connected up to Spanish Forks summer programs and met this girl, Elizabeth Hatch, who is now a life long friend!
This is Christopher, my dance partner for LIGHT and we went to UT together to do Exposure Camp in spanish Fork and we played the rolls of Gabrielle and Troy from High School Musical! hahaha yes...we enjoyed it!
Here Chris and I are at Hale Center Theatre in Orem seeing "Crazy For You" and taking a little break from doing our own hard work on our show:)
This is group BLUE-A, the High School Musical Cast! Go team Go! Wild Cats in the house! hahaha

LIGHT 06-07 : quick stop in Snowflake, AZ and onto Branson, MO Tour...with a touch of NY:)

Quick stop up in Snowflake, AZ for an evening performance and a visit to the Temple:) We had a great testimony meeting there. I'll rmember it forever!
Competition day in Branson, MO...the most family friendly entertainment town in the U.S. ;)

Roommates..including Suzzy-poosie at the top there...on the Branson Belle ship! Delicious dinner! Great shows!
Me with two of my favorite guys from the group SIX! Six brothers who know how to rock the audiences socks off!
Oh yes, 6 am rehearsal in our balroom costumes...thank goodness they look great on stage...cause they're scary in person! hahaha

The Finale-Lion King! Ryan Sandberg and I were the soloists for this and HOLY COW was it amazing working with him...even if he did stab me in the foot every...EVERY time we had to hit my 'rafiki' stick down on the ground for the final BOOM! hahaha Still, what an honor!

There we are...my sweet Christopher and I right there in the middle smiling so intensely at each other! hahaha We choreographed a LARGE amount of these numbers together and stuck together as partners! LOVE HIM! This was our 'swing' set! hahaha no pun intended...

Our opener...ballroom to 'save the last dance for me' by Michael Buble...probably the number i hated doing by the time competition came simply because it was vital everyone looked SO uniform and we had some very...un-dancers in the group. However, we pulled it off and kicked booty!


This wall is at Lambert's Cafe...LIGHT favorite place to eat in Branson, MO!!! I love our strong boys!
The fam at Liberty Jail! We actually had to go down into a safe room below the building because a storm hit and windows were breaking from the ball sized pieces of hale! Never experienced that before! Little scary at first! But cool once it ended!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

LIGHT 06-07 : Utah Tour

My best pal that year of LIGHT, Kierstie! Us early in the morning driving to UT for some fun fun fun performing!!!

We would open for the BYU Young Ambassadors when they'd perform where we were performing. It was so special for us! They let us sit in on a rehearsal while we were in UT touring:)...Good ol' Clotile Bonner and Jared Young! FABULOUS performers!



We also got really close to a group from Spanish Fork High that we did exchange performances with and Jimmy, pictured here, became part of our group when the school in S.F. dropped the program! He's my pal! whoever took this...great shot! hahaha



Oh! Janna and the guys! hahaha some are missing for some reason but this is most of them! They are all my brothers! Love them dearly!!!



The 2006-2007 LIGHT group! Probably my favorite year!






LIGHT 06-07 : LA tour


Oh man...that NASTY slicked back hair! hahaha we all had big hair pieces that clipped in for Competition so they made us glue it back and it was...well, not very flattering afterwards! hahaha Anyhow, after competition, at the beach, one of the guys from Mesa High that was in our group, decided to show us what he brought with him on the trip...the Mesa High mascot! HAHAHA JACK RABBIT! hahaha Look at that thing! Hilarious! So we all took turns taking pics in it and sending them to Mesa kids and administration that we knew to see what would happen...not sure what those boys were trying to accomplish:) But it was fun while it lasted...and stinky!