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Our final DOTM of season eight! Cooper 🥳 This one is particularly special, as Plan A staff came together to select the last Dancer of the Month—someone who truly embodies energy and positivity in the classroom. His passion and love for dance is so evident and makes us all so happy ☺️ Never stop being you Cooper!

Our final DOTM of season eight!

Cooper 🥳

This one is particularly special, as Plan A staff came together to select the last Dancer of the Month—someone who truly embodies energy and positivity in the classroom. His passion and love for dance is so evident and makes us all so happy ☺️

Never stop being you Cooper!

Shock Dance Challenge Results 💚 SHOW DOWN RESULTS 13 & Up Runner Up “Simulation” Production MZ TOP STUDIO STANDINGS -1st Place Champion Top Studio (Pre-Competitive) -Runner Up Top Studio (Competitive) OVERALLS & TOP MARKS -Total Package awarded to Aliyah -12 and Under Improv 2nd place awarded to Briella -Highest mark competitive contemporary “Under my Spell” Aliyah MZ -Highest mark pre-competitive contemporary “I’m Going Away” Team Power MZ -Highest mark pre-comp lyrical “All I Want” Lydia MZ -Highest Mark Musical Theatre/Song & Dance “I’ve Got Rhythm” Saryn MZ -Studio Top Mark “Under My Spell” Aliyah MZ with a score of 94.77 (highest score of event- 805 entries- was 94.78) -4th Overall Novice Mini Solo “Neon Lights” Eva SM -4th Overall Pre-Comp Mini Solo “Shooting Star” Chloe MZ -1st Overall Pre-Comp inter Duet “Better Watch Out” Avery/Anna MK -1st Overall Pre-Comp Junior Group “Goodness Gracious” Team Electricity MZ -2nd Overall Pre-Comp Inter Group “Wonderland” Team Power MZ -1st Overall Pre-Comp Inter Group “I’m Going Away” Team Power MZ -Briella placed 7th, 6th, 5th and 2nd Competitive Junior Solos with her four solos MZ -Daniela placed 10th, 6th, 4th and 1st Competitive Inter Solos MK, MZ, AR, TR -Aliyah placed 10th, 5th and 2nd Competitive Senior solos AL, MZ -Claudia placed 6th Overall Competitive Senior Solo “Relapse” MZ -9th Overall Competitive Junior Group “In Orbit” Team Electricity MZ -5th Overall Competitive Inter Group “Simulation” Production MZ -2nd Overall Comp Senior Duet “Come to Life” Aliyah/Claudia MZ -1st Overall Comp Senior Duet “Crazy” Aliyah/Kelsi MZ -Julianne placed 4th and 2nd Pre-Comp Inter solos MZ -1st Overall Pre-Comp Senior “In The Orange” Lexie MZ -Lydia placed 5th and 1st Overall Pre Comp Junior Solos MK, MZ -Anna placed 7th and 4th Overall Pre Comp Junior solos MK, MZ -6th Overall Pre Comp Junior Solo Ivy “Get To It” MZ -2nd Overall Pre Comp Junior solo Marley “Beautiful Things” Could not fit all of our awards in this caption, so be sure to check the final slide of this post for special awards, Choreo awards and scholarships!!

Shock Dance Challenge Results 💚

SHOW DOWN RESULTS
13 & Up Runner Up “Simulation” Production MZ

TOP STUDIO STANDINGS
-1st Place Champion Top Studio (Pre-Competitive)
-Runner Up Top Studio (Competitive)

OVERALLS & TOP MARKS
-Total Package awarded to Aliyah
-12 and Under Improv 2nd place awarded to Briella
-Highest mark competitive contemporary “Under my Spell” Aliyah MZ
-Highest mark pre-competitive contemporary “I’m Going Away” Team Power MZ
-Highest mark pre-comp lyrical “All I Want” Lydia MZ
-Highest Mark Musical Theatre/Song & Dance “I’ve Got Rhythm” Saryn MZ
-Studio Top Mark “Under My Spell” Aliyah MZ with a score of 94.77 (highest score of event- 805 entries- was 94.78)
-4th Overall Novice Mini Solo “Neon Lights” Eva SM
-4th Overall Pre-Comp Mini Solo “Shooting Star” Chloe MZ
-1st Overall Pre-Comp inter Duet “Better Watch Out” Avery/Anna MK
-1st Overall Pre-Comp Junior Group “Goodness Gracious” Team Electricity MZ
-2nd Overall Pre-Comp Inter Group “Wonderland” Team Power MZ
-1st Overall Pre-Comp Inter Group “I’m Going Away” Team Power MZ
-Briella placed 7th, 6th, 5th and 2nd Competitive Junior Solos with her four solos MZ
-Daniela placed 10th, 6th, 4th and 1st Competitive Inter Solos MK, MZ, AR, TR
-Aliyah placed 10th, 5th and 2nd Competitive Senior solos AL, MZ
-Claudia placed 6th Overall Competitive Senior Solo “Relapse” MZ
-9th Overall Competitive Junior Group “In Orbit” Team Electricity MZ
-5th Overall Competitive Inter Group “Simulation” Production MZ
-2nd Overall Comp Senior Duet “Come to Life” Aliyah/Claudia MZ
-1st Overall Comp Senior Duet “Crazy” Aliyah/Kelsi MZ
-Julianne placed 4th and 2nd Pre-Comp Inter solos MZ
-1st Overall Pre-Comp Senior “In The Orange” Lexie MZ
-Lydia placed 5th and 1st Overall Pre Comp Junior Solos MK, MZ
-Anna placed 7th and 4th Overall Pre Comp Junior solos MK, MZ
-6th Overall Pre Comp Junior Solo Ivy “Get To It” MZ
-2nd Overall Pre Comp Junior solo Marley “Beautiful Things”

Could not fit all of our awards in this caption, so be sure to check the final slide of this post for special awards, Choreo awards and scholarships!!

Please share with your fellow stretch and strength dance friends!

Please share with your fellow stretch and strength dance friends!

@shockdance 💚

@shockdance 💚

Recital tickets are now available for pre-sale ON OUR NEW WEBSITE!! How to pre-order your tickets (may 2-May 15): Go to www.planadancecentre.com Create an account Go to SHOP Select which show you’d like to buy tickets for Select quantity & buy as you would on any online store! You will then receive a receipt via email 🙂 Although we are not super tech savvy, our web designer is AMAZING so let us know if you have any questions and we will contact her and get back to you promptly. As usual, tickets will be available at the door while quantities last for CASH ONLY. Exact change is appreciated. Below you will see a list of what classes & solos/duos are in which show. If you have any questions regarding which class your child is in please send us : your dancers name, and what day and time they take class each week so we can assist you. Audience members 3 and under do not need a ticket- they watch for free. Email to dance families coming this week with show order (attached are LISTS not orders), rehearsal schedule, dress code and more :)

Recital tickets are now available for pre-sale ON OUR NEW WEBSITE!!
How to pre-order your tickets (may 2-May 15):

Go to www.planadancecentre.com
Create an account
Go to SHOP
Select which show you’d like to buy tickets for
Select quantity & buy as you would on any online store!
You will then receive a receipt via email 🙂

Although we are not super tech savvy, our web designer is AMAZING so let us know if you have any questions and we will contact her and get back to you promptly.

As usual, tickets will be available at the door while quantities last for CASH ONLY. Exact change is appreciated.

Below you will see a list of what classes & solos/duos are in which show. If you have any questions regarding which class your child is in please send us : your dancers name, and what day and time they take class each week so we can assist you.

Audience members 3 and under do not need a ticket- they watch for free.

Email to dance families coming this week with show order (attached are LISTS not orders), rehearsal schedule, dress code and more 🙂

Limelight Recap 💚 For the first time EVER plan A received “Highest Score of the Day” ALL 4 days of the competition 😍 Day 1 Beautiful Things, Marley (MZ) Day 2 Under My Spell, Aliyah (MZ) Day 3 Come to Life, Aliyah & Claudia (MZ) Day 4 Restless by Nature, Aliyah (AL) Our dancers received 15 high silver medals, 42 gold medals, and 13 exclusive golds 💛 Miss Mal received best choreo of the day for Lexies solo You Make Me Feel so Young Jasmine & Lexie & Aliyah all received STAR PERFORMER OF THE DAY for Rare and Sweet (MZ) and You Make Me Feel So Young (MZ) and Restless by Nature (AL) SPECIAL JUDGES AWARDS -Travelling Queen awarded to Abby for Wandering Traveller (MZ) -Classic Choreo awarded to Lexies jazz solo You Make Me Feel So Young (MZ) -Connection to Story awarded to Julianne for The Final Note (MZ) -Wowee Wow awarded to Aliyah for Under My Spell (MZ) -Most Potential awarded to Chloe B for Shooting Star (MZ) -Sharp Attack awarded to Lydia for All I Want (MZ) -Legs & Lines awarded to Briella for Tick Tick Boom (MZ) -Silky Smooth awarded to Claudia for 7 Nation Army (GT) -No Crumbs Left awarded to Claudia and Aliyah for Come to Life (MZ) -Moves Like Air awarded to Aliyah for The Painter (MZ) -Freak of Nature awarded to Aliyah for Restless by Nature (AL) -Choreo Layering awarded to Simulation choreographer MZ Limelight Scholarship Recipient Ivy-Marie Elevate Scholarship Recipient Anna HIGH MARK TROPHIES Pre-Comp Jazz awarded to Anna for How You Like That (MK) Pre-Comp Contemp awarded to Marley for Beautiful Things (MZ) Pre-Comp Lyrical awarded to Nadia for Godspeed (MZ) Pre-Comp Hiphop awarded to Aalayah for Change Up (MZ) Pre-Comp Modern awarded to Paige for Normalcy (SM) Pre-Comp Song & Dance awarded to Saryn for I’ve Got Rhythm (MZ) Pre-Comp Hiphop awarded to HipHop 1 for a Va Va Voom (MZ) Comp Jazz awarded to Aliyah and Claudia for Come to Life (MZ) Comp Lyrical Group awarded to Company for Better Day Comin (SM) Comp Contemporary awarded to Aliyah for Under my Spell (MZ) Comp Open awarded to Aliyah for Restless by Nature (AL) Comp Contemp Group awarded to Company for Horizon (MZ) Very proud 🥹

Limelight Recap 💚

For the first time EVER plan A received “Highest Score of the Day” ALL 4 days of the competition 😍
Day 1 Beautiful Things, Marley (MZ)
Day 2 Under My Spell, Aliyah (MZ)
Day 3 Come to Life, Aliyah & Claudia (MZ)
Day 4 Restless by Nature, Aliyah (AL)

Our dancers received 15 high silver medals, 42 gold medals, and 13 exclusive golds 💛

Miss Mal received best choreo of the day for Lexies solo You Make Me Feel so Young

Jasmine & Lexie & Aliyah all received STAR PERFORMER OF THE DAY for Rare and Sweet (MZ) and You Make Me Feel So Young (MZ) and Restless by Nature (AL)

SPECIAL JUDGES AWARDS
-Travelling Queen awarded to Abby for Wandering Traveller (MZ)
-Classic Choreo awarded to Lexies jazz solo You Make Me Feel So Young (MZ)
-Connection to Story awarded to Julianne for The Final Note (MZ)
-Wowee Wow awarded to Aliyah for Under My Spell (MZ)
-Most Potential awarded to Chloe B for Shooting Star (MZ)
-Sharp Attack awarded to Lydia for All I Want (MZ)
-Legs & Lines awarded to Briella for Tick Tick Boom (MZ)
-Silky Smooth awarded to Claudia for 7 Nation Army (GT)
-No Crumbs Left awarded to Claudia and Aliyah for Come to Life (MZ)
-Moves Like Air awarded to Aliyah for The Painter (MZ)
-Freak of Nature awarded to Aliyah for Restless by Nature (AL)
-Choreo Layering awarded to Simulation choreographer MZ

Limelight Scholarship Recipient Ivy-Marie
Elevate Scholarship Recipient Anna

HIGH MARK TROPHIES
Pre-Comp Jazz awarded to Anna for How You Like That (MK)
Pre-Comp Contemp awarded to Marley for Beautiful Things (MZ)
Pre-Comp Lyrical awarded to Nadia for Godspeed (MZ)
Pre-Comp Hiphop awarded to Aalayah for Change Up (MZ)
Pre-Comp Modern awarded to Paige for Normalcy (SM)
Pre-Comp Song & Dance awarded to Saryn for I’ve Got Rhythm (MZ)
Pre-Comp Hiphop awarded to HipHop 1 for a Va Va Voom (MZ)
Comp Jazz awarded to Aliyah and Claudia for Come to Life (MZ)
Comp Lyrical Group awarded to Company for Better Day Comin (SM)
Comp Contemporary awarded to Aliyah for Under my Spell (MZ)
Comp Open awarded to Aliyah for Restless by Nature (AL)
Comp Contemp Group awarded to Company for Horizon (MZ)

Very proud 🥹

Unleash Your Little One’s Inner Star! 🌟 Join us this summer for a fun-filled session of tumbling and dance designed just for ages 3.5 to 6! Let their creativity soar as they leap, twirl, and flip their way to new skills. Spots are limited—sign up today and watch them shine! ✨💃🤸‍♂️

Unleash Your Little One’s Inner Star! 🌟 Join us this summer for a fun-filled session of tumbling and dance designed just for ages 3.5 to 6! Let their creativity soar as they leap, twirl, and flip their way to new skills. Spots are limited—sign up today and watch them shine! ✨💃🤸‍♂️

LIMELIGHT CHAMPIONS 2025 🥳 Our studio reached a new personal best this year with 13 entries to the vaults!! COMPETITIVE VAULT CHAMPION Aliyah with Restless by Nature (AL) VAULT 2nd RUNNER UP Claudia & Aliyah with Come to Life (MZ) PRE-COMPETITIVE VAULT CHAMPION Anna with How You Like That (MK) VAULT 2nd RUNNER UP Nadia with Godspeed (MZ) MOST PROMISING DANCER Marley with Beautiful Things (MZ) Stay tuned for our full studio limelight 2025 recap post 💚

LIMELIGHT CHAMPIONS 2025 🥳

Our studio reached a new personal best this year with 13 entries to the vaults!!

COMPETITIVE VAULT CHAMPION
Aliyah with Restless by Nature (AL)

VAULT 2nd RUNNER UP
Claudia & Aliyah with Come to Life (MZ)

PRE-COMPETITIVE VAULT CHAMPION
Anna with How You Like That (MK)

VAULT 2nd RUNNER UP
Nadia with Godspeed (MZ)

MOST PROMISING DANCER
Marley with Beautiful Things (MZ)

Stay tuned for our full studio limelight 2025 recap post 💚

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Sierra Wentzell

Teacher

Module one certified acrobatic arts. Sierra has danced competitively for 12 years- most of those years with PADC. She is a certified Acrobatic Arts teacher and is excited about bringing acro to Liverpool.

Sierra started dancing when she was 3 years old at Nova Dance Studio, and has danced competitively for 12 years- most of those years with PADC. It was in her teen years that she started to add on more classes and different styles such as ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, tumbling, and contemporary, until she was taking every single class offered for her age at the studio. Aside from training with Miss Mallory, Sierra has been assisting classes for years and is a well known substitute teacher amongst our students. Outside of the studio, Sierra is a graduate of the Veterinary Technology program at Dalhousie Agricultural College and is currently working at Nova Vet Clinic. Sierra is a certified Acrobatic Arts teacher and is excited about bringing acro to Liverpool. Sierra has been running our Liverpool programming for numerous seasons now and continues to grow and improve.

Brittany Legacy

Yoga Coach

Yoga Alliance Certified: Yoga Instructor & RYS Student. Her passion for creative/martial arts has grown into the yoga practices Encompassing Movement facilitates.

I hope you notice how you feel the shift of perception when you begin and how you feel lighter when you leave. My name is Brittany Legacy, Owner & Operator of Encompassing Movement. I began a spiritual practice at a time that I truly believe was the beginning of an incredible connection at the age of 4 at uechi-ryu karate academy prior to the passing of Victor Swiminer our teacher, well known Sense. In addition to Victor Swiminer, I trained with Master Jim Maloney. My passion for martial arts lead to many injuries. Approaching my senior year of high school I began the practice yoga, as a form of rehabilitation for my body. After high school I graduated from Tourism Business Management, became a mother of four (who you will recognize as Plan A dancers Robyn, Dana and Marley!), and continued with both martial arts and yoga while working in the corporate world. In 2019 I became a registered certified yoga instructor after lots of training; it was truly an incredible experience . My passion for creative/martial arts has grown into the yoga practices Encompassing Movement facilitates. I look forward to working with many dancers and supporting their goals. Yoga is essentially a spiritual discipline based on an extremely subtle science, which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. It is an art and science of healthy living. Love, Brittany.

Kim Turnbull McCall

Teacher

B.A. Neuropsychology Dalhousie University Life Member C.D.T.A. 1985-present with credentials in Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Modern. Associate Member of the Society of Classical Ballet - Vaganova Method (since 1998).

Previous owner of our studio, then called Nova Dance Studio, Miss Kim is coming back and we couldn’t be more excited! You may know her as the Master of Ceremonies at Limelight. She has M.C.’d for dance events throughout the region and has acted as an adjudicator for several Atlantic dance competitions.

he has studied and/or taught Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary, Hip-Hop, Step Dance, Flamenco, Belly Dance, Character National, African, Social Dance and Country and Western dance forms with some of the most acclaimed teachers of her time.

Her training began when she was three years old with other Mary Turnbull, leading to her professional qualification through the Canadian Dance Teachers Association (C.D.T.A.) in 1985 with further qualification reached in 1991, 1995 and 2012.

Throughout the decades, she has also completed numerous student and teaching level exams in the Russian and N.A.T.D. syllabi. She has held the position of Artistic Director of several multidisciplinary schools throughout her career, has been on the faculty of and has guest taught at dozens of competitive schools coast to coast. ‘Miss Kim’ opened her first studio in Head of St.

Margaret’s Bay in September 2001 then went on to open two more studios on the South Shore, in Chester and Bridgewater as well as one in Fall River. To this day these studios ECDA and PADC continue to thrive as vital dance centres under the direction of ou next generation of teachers that Miss Kim once taught.

Drawing from her performance background in live theatre, television and film, Miss Kim has choreographed and guest performed locally with several Maritime theatre companies including Chester Playhouse and Neptune Theatre. Other credits to her name include having been acknowledged for her contribution to “The Tap Dance Dictionary”, published by MacFarland & Company, acting as Competition Coordinator for the first two C.D.T.A. Atlantic Ballet Festivals, having been a director on the Board of Dance Nova Scotia from 1996-2003 and the Atlantic Vice President of the C.D.T.A., but her most proud accomplishment she says, are her beautiful dancing daughters.

Emily Rivard

Teacher

NCCP Gymnastics Foundation Artistics & Trampoline Coach and acrobaric Arts Module 1 & Aerial and Back Handspring Certified.

Emily has been teaching since 2018 and is dedicated to developing her students’ understandings of dance technique and artistry. Being raised in Sudbury, Ontario had given Emily the opportunity to train with teachers like Mitchell Jackson (On The Floor), Emily Caruso-Parnell (Dance Evolution), Derek Piquette, Jeff Wong (Dance Inc), Kevin Howe, Tara-Jean Popowich, and Jennie Pappas. She had the opportunity to train in the summer intensives of the Quinte Ballet School of Canada and the School of Cadence Ballet. As a dancer, Emily was part of the On The Floor Sick Kids Gala , learning intensively multiple styles to showcase a professional show as a fundraiser for Sick Kids Hospital (Toronto, ON).

Emily has coached gymnastics for 2 years and has received certification in coaching by Gymnastics Ontario (NCCP). She completed her intermediate foundation and intermediate ballet exams from the Royal Academy of Dance under the direction of Emily Caruso-Parnell. She will have completed her module 1 certification from Acrobatic Arts in June 2024.

Emily moved to Nova Scotia to continue her education in marine biology by studying at Dalhousie University and is to receive her Bachelor of Science in Spring 2025. Emily’s style of teaching is detail oriented focused on the varying mechanics and goals of the dancer. She continues to teach presently at Dartmouth Dance Academy and now at Plan A!

Sophie MacMillan

Teacher

Currently enrolled in the dance teacher training program at the Maritime Conservatory of performing arts and will graduate in 2026. A certified ballet and jazz teacher through the Canadian dance teachers association.

Sophie began her dance training at Precision Dance Company located in the Annapolis Valley. There, she primarily trained in Contemporary, Jazz, Modern, and Lyrical techniques, as well as Hip Hop and Musical Theatre. She received ballet training and completed several examinations (including the intermediate level) with the CDTA and RAD certified Candance Academy under the direction of Gaea Jess. Sophie continued to learn in workshops, intensives and competed at many dance competitions across the Maritimes which further enhanced her own personal style of dance. 

In the last few years, Sophie has pursued a new avenue as a Dance Teacher and Choreographer in Halifax, Nova Scotia. While teaching weekly classes at Dartmouth Dance Academy, she continues to train with esteemed professionals at House of Eights Dance Studio and has signed with Aspiring Artists Management for even more artistic development. Sophie is a current student of the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts two year teacher training program.

Mallory Zwicker

Artistic Director,  Teacher

Owner of plan A dance, MCPA dance teacher training graduate, CDTA jazz, ballet, acro and modern certified teacher, ADAPT jazz and tap certified teacher, PBT certified ballet teacher and TDLI level 2 certified dance adjudicator.

Mallory is a dance educator from the South Shore who has a huge passion for the arts. At age 14 she began her formal dance training at a number of dance studios and companies in Nova Scotia, and by age 15 was dancing 7 days a week in a plethora of genres. Mallory has taken master classes in New York City and Calgary and has trained at multiple local studios over the years including Precision Dance Company under the direction of  Sidney McIlroy. For two years Mallory was a member of Synergy Dance Society, a touring Modern/Contemporary/Jazz company, until their final season in 2014. For 18 years, Mallory was a member of the Dynamo Gym Club where she developed a lifelong love of gymnastics that has transitioned into her love of teaching Acro dance with her Acrobatic Arts certification.

Mallory has been teaching since she was 16 years old and quickly realized it was what she was meant to do.  Mallory has taught at a number of dance schools including the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and was the Artistic Director of Nova Dance Studio for the 2016-17 season, just to name a few.  In May of 2017, Mallory opened Plan A Dance in Bridgewater NS, and by 2018 opened a second studio in Liverpool. Mallory’s love for technical teaching and choreography is continuously growing and her pieces have been performed and recognized across North America. Some of Mallory’s local accomplishments include: Spotlight Choreography Award(s), Excellence in Acro Teaching Award, she has produced numerous title winning dances and has had dancers graduate and go off to performing arts institutions to begin their careers in the fine arts.

Mallory is a graduate of the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts’ Teacher Training Program where she trained for 3 years with an amazing faculty of highly acclaimed dance professionals under the direction of Barbara Dearborn. Zwicker is now a certified Jazz, Ballet, Modern and Acrobatics teacher through the Canadian Dance Teachers Association and has her Progressive Ballet Technique teaching certification. Mallory believes that knowledge is power and is also enrolled in the Business Program at NSCC and has recently received her certificate from the Acadia Entrepreneurship Centre. Mallory is a recent graduate of the ADAPT Teacher Training School for Jazz and Tap. Mallory plans to keep growing and learning so that she can continue to educate and engage all of her students near and far.