International Dance Day at Dancer Palooza

Today was all about the dance crews at Dancer Palooza for International Dance Day. And we saw some amazing group performances. 

Here's Zoe fueling up to get her groove on in some workshops today. 

They had a huge screen out in the lobby of the convention center for those who preferred watching the performances on the screen instead of going inside to the Beat Street main stage. The quality of the video was insane.  It was so crisp it's almost like seeing it live. 

The main stage at Beat Street was truly Dancer Palooza in all it's Palooza glory! 

One of the many talented dance crews we saw. 

This group won on the reality show "America's Favorite Dance Crew". They put the funk in funky!  So fun to watch. The crowd loved them. 

Then we walked around Beat Street & did some shopping.  A dancers heaven of dance wear & accessories. A girl could go broke here!  We bought the coolest sparkle eye liner ever from a company called Eye Kandy.  We just couldn't resist.  They were all so pretty. We got 10 different colors!  Although Zoe was wanting all 40. 

Here's Zoe getting her eyes done to match her orange leotard. 

And Jordan got her's done in blue to match her dance outfit. 

The afternoon started with a jazz class from Tyce Diorio. He's one talented but crazy dude. 

Another packed class. And talk about tough. These choreographers aren't fooling around. I thought the combination seemed more hip hop than jazz. But what do I know. ;)

Jordan with Tyce after class. She just loves getting her picture taken with all the choreographer heavy weights that are here. 

And of course we had to get an autograph from Kalani from Dance Moms. Another great young dancer that the girls love who we got to see perform a solo. 

We ended our evening at a delicious Italian restaurant called L'Opera Ristorante. And were fortunate enough to be serenaded by the most beautiful opera singer with an ironic name- Sam A. Cappella. He told us, "No kidding, that's really my name."   

Tomorrow we will close out our dance extravaganza weekend with a few 

final workshops from 2 more top notch choreographers- Mandy Moore & Mia Michaels!  

Well it's now past midnight, the girls are fast asleep, & so I must go. Until we dance again..........