AAMTC Talent Competition 2013





Etta has been working pretty hard for several months on a couple of talent routines for the American Amateur Modeling and Talent Competition with the plans on just doing the talent part.  The modeling is a little more free form and Etta likes structure.  There are 8 different categories girls can compete in: tap, jazz, ballet, acro/novelty dance, vocals, song and dance, musical theater, and novelty (any other talent not listed).  Etta wanted to do 5: tap, ballet, vocals, acro, and contortion.  Eric and I basically forbade her to ever sing as a talent but she really wanted to do it.  Today was a reminder why we are against singing.  Unless she wants to have voice lessons, we won't be doing that again.

She actually started with tap and looked super cute.  She was having headband issues during her performance and it was downhill from there.  She just looked terrified and kept messing with the headband.  Turns out the little ponytail that the comb was stuck in broke.  Go figure.  There were maybe 8 or 10 girls in the 7-8 year old age group so I was not surprised when she didn't place in tap or vocals.  I omitted those videos for a reason.

 

Ready for tap

Ballet was her third event and it went pretty well.  It wasn't her best job on the routine, but it still looked cute.  Not sure how many girls were entered in that event but she ended up with 3rd place.  Here is her routine.



 

Her 4th event was her acro dance routine.  I have to admit it was looking pretty dang good then near the end she forgot something and you could see her face go blank.  She skipped to the next thing but then she ended about 15 seconds early and thought she could just fill the gap with back walk overs.  So, I lost track of how many she did then she finally ended.  Needless to say, even if your routine is strong, if you mess up at the end that's what the judges are going to remember.  She did not place.  I was banking on her scoring well on ballet, acro, and contortion.

Etta's last event was her contortion routine in the novelty group.  There was a girl that did a monologue and several piano players.  Etta's routine looked great except she ended early.  Luckily the routine itself looked good.  She ended up winning first place in that event.  (oops, missed the first part of her routine on the video after placing her balancing canes on stage).

 3rd place for ballet

 1st for novelty

The girl with the most amount of points (only counting their top three places) won Talent of the year.  Etta wanted that so bad but it didn't happen this year.  I figure if she could work on these routines all this coming year, she'll be sitting pretty for the 2014 competition.