Kamloops Festival of the Performing Arts
LTDA Dancers excel in Kamloops Arts Festival provincial competition - 2023
Kamloops Festival of the Performing Arts - 90 years
After two year of virtual competitions, the KFPA this year celebrated it’s 90th festival by providing a live festival experience to all the performers of the 11 disciplines for 2023. The festival ran from February 26 to March 18 and included disciplines such as Piano, Speech and Dramatic Arts, Choral, Strings and Dance, and was judged by 8 professional adjudicators, all experts in their fields of the performing arts.
Eight students of the Love To Dance Academy once again excelled during the 2023 KFPA.
Teacher Vanessa van Rensburg’s Spanish Dance Performance group, as always, presented a well-polished dance performance which was entertaining and inspiring.
When teacher Kia Henriksen joined the LTD Team in September, dancers had the opportunity to add 5 more dance styles to their well-established repertoire of Ballet and Spanish, resulting in LTDA dancers receiving a balanced dance education with equal parts exposure, experience, and training which creates true versatile dancers.
Well done dancers! At LTDA our competitive dancers always strive for excellence.
Teacher Vanessa said:
“To these girls who participated in Kamloops Festival… I love and appreciate your approach to this event, every time you stepped on stage, every time you accepted your award, and the way you conducted yourself throughout.
You remained polite, true and humble, and that is worth more than receiving first place - though there were many!
You stepped out onto stage, and surrendered your whole being, leaving an imprint of your soul, creating a moment, a memory, taking the highs, and learning from the lows.
I am forever proud to have played a part in your journeys.
Congratulations on your exceptional results!”
Miss Kia is very proud of the LTDA dancers, who in only 6 short months not only managed to learn new dance styles, but also progressed to a competitive level, through dedicated practice and careful coaching. As Miss Kia always says: “Practice makes Progress”.
The Kamloops Festival of the Performing Arts plays an important role in the growth of Performing Arts in Canada. Thank you to the organizers and participants for an inspiring and memorable performance and competition experience.
Everybody at Love To Dance Academy is looking forward to an exciting and busy Spring Session of Dance which will include two Spring Dance Camps and lots of dance fun for recreational dancers, as well as exams, medal tests and a wonderful end of year dance event, Dancepiration 2023 in the Civic on June 10.