Calabasas Pack: CHS Rocks the ARTS

This has been a terrific month for the ARTS at CHS. So continuing with coverage about the A's - Academics • Arts • Athletics • Activities - congratulations to two of our premier ARTS programs, CHS Dance Team, and Unstrumental.

Weekly Featured Program
CHS Dance Team, coached by Kristen Furino

Thank you to photographer Ronna Kovner

We competed against 14 other teams and placed either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in every category, earning us the award of "3rd place Grand Champions" of the entire competition (which means we were the 3rd highest scoring team). Out of 99 soloists that day, 2 of our dancers scored among the "Top 11 Dancers" and were asked to dance again for the final placement. The results of the top 11 solo competition placed Tessa Gidish in 8th and Billi Marder won 1st place "Performer of the Year" receiving a cash scholarship and convention scholarship!

Team Routine Results:
Large routine: 1st place
Contemporary Routine: 1st place
Elite Routine: 2nd place
Character Routine: 2nd place
Small Contemporary Routine: 2nd place
Hip Hop Routine: 3rd place
Medium Routine: 3rd place

Soloist results:
Billi Marder: 1st place
Tessa Gidish: 1st place
Estella Shi: 1st place
Shoshana Orenstein: 4th place
Karen Mandel: 6th place

Improvisational Solo Results:
Tessa Gidish: 1st place
Billi Marder: 2nd place
Micaella Landers: 2nd place

Top 11 soloist Results:
Billi Marder: 1st place Performer of the Year
Tessa Gidish: 8th place

Congratulations also to our Instrumental Vocal Group for their fantastic performance in the Los Angeles A Cappella festival. See article in this week's Acorn for details.
To check out videos of the dance competition, click on some of the ARTastic links below.

Congratulations CHS Dance Team! Congratulations Coach Kristen Furino, and Assistant Coach Sara Galon.

Next week: A Capella Teams, Unstrumental and Bare Rythmn

FAVORITE—Calabasas High School’s a capella group, Unstrumental, beat out stiff competition at the Los Angeles A Cappella festival on Jan. 27 and 28 at UCLA. The group came in second place overall, winning Crowd Favorite and Best Arrangement for one performance and Best Staging for all three songs they performed. Brooke Wetterhahn won Best Female Vocalist. The coed group was the only high school a cappella group to compete against college singers in the festival.

Links to youtube:

CHARACTER-2nd place: http://youtu.be/QUay9hugwX4

LARGE- 1st place:http://youtu.be/khn4349ctQM

MEDIUM- 3rd place: http://youtu.be/PuXIsk_4n9M

INTERMEDIATE- 1st place http://youtu.be/oG3ckCTKurs

HIP HOP-3rd place: http://youtu.be/VMPWyqddWzQ

ELITE- 2nd place: http://youtu.be/VlEzhx_q83Y

SENIORS-2nd place: http://youtu.be/VrzxZZDtOnA

BILLI IMPROV-2nd place Improv group 1: http://youtu.be/6VJTA5v146E

BRIANNA MOREAU: http://youtu.be/oU8veUpzNb0

BRIANNA WENGER: http://youtu.be/Cvk6z8xl8JE

ESTELLA-1st place sophomore group 2: http://youtu.be/Lm9G50S-iY8

KAREN-6th place senior group 2: http://youtu.be/-xctz2bLDWY