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Tumble Trouble : Open Para

Little Mary loved watching the other girls dancing and loved to try and copy their more advanced dance moves, even if they were very complicated. Sometimes she tried to turn like Chloe or jump like Maddie but her favorite things to try and copy were tricks like Brooke or Mackenzie did in their dances. Once she had found a small empty studio, she ran in to practice. They made it look so easy but the little blonde dancer did not find it easy in the slightest. Wearing her pink leotard and white tights, she pulled on her pigtails before struggling to pull out a practice mat. Miss Rebecca, her tiny tots teacher, said that is was always important to use the mats when practicing acro because it was safer, making the floor softer to land on. And Mary needed the softer floor, she fell over a lot. "Step one" She said to herself, standing on the mat that she had dragged out in front of the mirror. "We warms up, that's important". With a smile, she slid down into the splits and stretched forwards and backwards, warming up. 

Once she was all warmed up and ready to dance, she knelt on her knees to roll forwards into a chin stand like she saw Mackenzie and Nia do in their acro routines. She could get into position, bending forwards but her balance wasn't very good at the moment. As she tried again, her little feet kicking in the air as she struggled to keep her balance, she didn't notice the door opening behind her and someone coming into the studio. 

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Costume Store : Open Para

Dancing on a big stage was always fun, but one of the most fun things about being at the competition was that she got to wear pretty outfits and dress up with hair and make up just like the big girls did all the time. As she waited for her rehearsal to start, Mary found her way to the costume store. This trio with Lizzie and Scarlett was lyrical so she knew that the costumes were going to be super pretty like the ones that Maddie and Chloe wore all the time. In these costumes they would really look like big girls. Mary really wanted to see her costume and try it on so she could pretend to be a big girl. If they did well in this competition, Miss Abby would think that they were big girls too.

The costume store was full of hundreds of costumes, some old ones and some new ones. She could spend hours in her looking through all of the costumes and trying them on, pretending to be the person who wore them. With a smile, she skipped down the aisles of costumes spotting Maddie's angel dress and Mackenzie's polka dot the party starts right now costume. Mary could remember playing around in that costume with scarlett, both taking it in turns to wear the party hat and try and copy Mackenzie's tricks. Once her and Scarlet had tried on Maddie and Chloe's black swan tutu's and pretended to be ballerinas. They could always play in the costume store.

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Tumbling tricks : Open Para

Little Mary loved watching the other girls dancing and loved to try and copy their more advanced dance moves, even if they were very complicated. Sometimes she tried to turn like Chloe or jump like Maddie but her favorite things to try and copy were tricks like Brooke or Mackenzie did in their dances. Once she had found a small empty studio, she ran in to practice. They made it look so easy but the little blonde dancer did not find it easy in the slightest. Wearing her pink leotard and white tights, she pulled on her pigtails before struggling to pull out a practice mat. Miss Rebecca, her tiny tots teacher, said that is was always important to use the mats when practicing acro because it was safer, making the floor softer to land on. And Mary needed the softer floor, she fell over a lot. "Step one" She said to herself, standing on the mat that she had dragged out in front of the mirror. "We warms up, that's important". With a smile, she slid down into the splits and stretched forwards and backwards, warming up. 

Once she was all warmed up and ready to dance, she knelt on her knees to roll forwards into a chin stand like she saw Mackenzie and Nia do in their acro routines. She could get into position, bending forwards but her balance wasn't very good at the moment. As she tried again, her little feet kicking in the air as she struggled to keep her balance, she didn't notice the door opening behind her and someone coming into the studio. 

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Disney time : open para

Mary giggled to herself as she skipped around her bedroom, or as her daddy called it the princesses pink palace. The room was nearly completely pink, with ballerinas painted on the walls and princess toys and games scattered around. The bed was piled up with cuddly toys and dress up clothes were piled in one corner. With a smile, the tiny girl run to the dress up Clothes, picking up a sparkly purple dress and pulling it over the leotard and rights she was already wearing. "Princess" she smiled standing in front of a full length mirror and spinning around. "I'm repunzel" she told her reflection picking up a stuffed toy lizard like the real one repunzel had in tangled. "Come on pascal" she said skipping out of the room and along the corridor to the stairs. "I have a dream, I have a dream, wanna see the floaty lanterns gleam, dum dum dum dum dum Dum dum dum, dee dee dee dee do dee dum dum" she sung to herself, jumping down the stairs one step at a time as she sung. It was always fun to sing, especially Disney princess songs. After all, daddy says she was a princess, so it was only right for her to sing princessy songs wasn't it? And Disney had the best songs. She giggled as her puppy Snowbelle sped down the stairs past her, stumbling over her own feet as she ran through the house. "Come pascal, lets catch Snowbelle, she can be maximus?" She said to the toy jumping the last step "and way down deeps insides I have a dream!"

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Hiding : Open Para

Ever since little Mary Flanagan had found out that she was no longer a part of the big kid competition team she had been a little bit down and sad. She still went to her tiny tots lessons and her extra dance lessons she had begged her mommy to book for her, but it wasn't the same. She had loved being a big girl and dancing on those giant stages in front of all those people, clapping for her. But she hadn't done very well, coming seventh with her solo and sixth with her duet with her best friend Scarlett. Miss Abby had not been happy. She wasn't good enough, she was too little and did not dance well enough. 

After seeing that she was no longer on the pyramid, she had gone home upset and she was sure that Scarlet had done the same. Both of the little girls had been upset to learn that they were no longer on the team. Apart from going to school and going to her dance lessons, she would come home and hide in her princess playhouse playing dance competitions with her puppy Snowbelle. If Mary couldn't go to the dance competitions anymore, maybe she could make a puppy dance competitions for Snowbelle. Mary's mummy and daddy spent hours trying to get Mary out of her playhouse, to stop hiding, but she didn't want too. She wanted to stay hiding away in the playhouse, pouting. No one had managed to get her out of the playhouse other than when it was time for school or dance. 

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Duet practice : Mary and Scarlet

. Mary had came 7th, and that was a number that she knew Miss Abby did not like. She had gone to the pyramid expecting to be shouted at but instead was on the third row of the pyramid and had another dance, a duet with her best friend Scarlet. She couldn't be more excited, she was on the competition team for another two weeks! And, most exciting of all, Miss Abby had said that if they did well they may have a chance of being on the team permanently. Mary's mommy said that miss Abby rarely took mini dancers to the competitions so the teacher must really like them as dancers. Arriving at the studio, Mary rushed through to the dancers den to change into her leotard and tights as her mommy twisted her up into pigtails. It was rehearsal time, and she wanted the dance to be perfect. It meant a lot of work but she wanted Miss Abby to want them on the competition team. Once she was ready she ran through to the studio and waited for Scarlett. She had the music cd with her. The song was sassy, perfect for the little girls. The hardest part was the timing. The teachers had said that the timing had to be perfect for the dance to work, so it meant a lot of practice. The judges had said that they both had a lo of energy and were cute on stage, now they just had to show them that they could dance like the big girls. When Mary heard the door open, she smiled "hello Scarlet!"

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Back to reality: Open para

Having just returned from a wonderful holiday in sunny Spain, Charlie wasn't really in the mood to return to work or to the studio if she was being perfectly honest. The holiday had been relaxing. Just her and her girls, Brynn and Jaycee, finally allowed to have some freedom away from School, dance and work and take some well earned relaxation time. It was much needed. She had returned to work that morning for her shift, then come home to unpack and clean the house and take her dog Milo for a walk all before picking the girls up and going to the studio. 

Charlie knew that Brynn and Jaycee were happy to be back at the studio and be back in her lessons but she knew that with the competition season starting back up again, everything was going to be hectic. She wasn't sure whether or not her girls were on the teams yet, it was all changing at the moment. She just knew that she would be needed to help make costumes, get music ready and do hair and make up on competition days. She was fine with this, as long as it did not get to dramatic. With a gentle sigh, Charlie took her normal seat in the viewing room, watching the jazz class. 

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Back to reality : Open para

Having just returned from a wonderful holiday in sunny Spain, Charlie wasn't really in the mood to return to work or to the studio if she was being perfectly honest. The holiday had been relaxing. Just her and her girls, Brynn and Jaycee, finally allowed to have some freedom away from School, dance and work and take some well earned relaxation time. It was much needed. She had returned to work that morning for her shift, then come home to unpack and clean the house and take her dog Milo for a walk all before picking the girls up and going to the studio. 

Charlie knew that Brynn and Jaycee were happy to be back at the studio and be back in her lessons but she knew that with the competition season starting back up again, everything was going to be hectic. She wasn't sure whether or not her girls were on the teams yet, it was all changing at the moment. She just knew that she would be needed to help make costumes, get music ready and do hair and make up on competition days. She was fine with this, as long as it did not get to dramatic. With a gentle sigh, Charlie took her normal seat in the viewing room, watching the jazz class.