Dancers from T&T took part in the All Dance Amer­i­ca 2024 com­pe­ti­tion held in Pana­ma from Sep­tem­ber 18 to 23 and walked away with over 100 tro­phies.

In a spec­tac­u­lar show­case of tal­ent, 14 dance acad­e­mies, in­clud­ing Lil An­gels of Dance, Or­ga­nized Choas, Body Lan­guage, TT Dance Comm, Caribbean School of Danc­ing, Ze­rolim­its En­ter­tain­ment Com­pa­ny, St George’s Col­lege, Mal­ick Sec­ondary School, Trinidad Mul­ti­cul­tur­al Dance Group, ACES Dance Acad­e­my, Xtreme Dance Acad­e­my, Starz Au­then­tic Dance Acad­e­my, Un­stop­pable4ce Unit­ed, and St Joseph Con­vent took part in the pres­ti­gious com­pe­ti­tion.

Each acad­e­my pre­sent­ed a di­verse ar­ray of dance styles, high­light­ing T&T’s cul­tur­al her­itage and artis­tic flair. The acad­e­mies ex­celled in their per­for­mances, earn­ing mul­ti­ple ti­tles across var­i­ous cat­e­gories from hip hop, afro-beats, con­tem­po­rary, bal­let, so­ca, jazz, chut­ney, and folk.

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Xtreme Dance Acad­e­my walked with the best chore­og­ra­phy; Lil An­gels of Dance won the best all-new dancer prize, while TT Dance Comm won the all-dance open cat­e­go­ry. Their hard work and com­mit­ment paid off tremen­dous­ly as they amassed an im­pres­sive haul of around 100 tro­phies, so­lid­i­fy­ing T&T’s rep­u­ta­tion as a dri­ving force in the dance com­mu­ni­ty.

Am­bas­sador and fran­chise hold­er of All Dance T&T, Avionne Au­gus­tine-Charles, told Guardian Me­dia, “This re­mark­able achieve­ment serves as an in­spi­ra­tion to as­pir­ing dancers through­out Trinidad and To­ba­go, high­light­ing the re­wards of ded­i­ca­tion and orig­i­nal­i­ty in per­form­ing arts. All the par­tic­i­pants re­turned home with cher­ished mem­o­ries, new friend­ships, and im­mense pride in rep­re­sent­ing their coun­try in an in­ter­na­tion­al dance com­pe­ti­tion.”