Last Modified: 06/15/2002

News for 2000

• Studio wins national titles.
In July, our junior and senior dance teams won the national championship title at the largest and most competitive dance competition in the U.S., Showstopper National Dance Championships in Anaheim.

The junior team made up of 11-year-olds Sara Carter, Angela Chao, Alexandra deLory, Tiffany Tchang and Jaime Wu performed the jazz number "Steam Heat."

The senior team of 14- to 17-year-olds Victoria Allen, Katrina Balbuena, Claire Dews, Megan Ellis, Danielle Freitas, Ashley Ho, Melanie Jimenez, Adriana McMahon, Kyrra Richards and Sarita Trujillo performed the lyrical routine "Someone's Calling.

These are tremendous achievements by our wonderful dancers. Congratulations!

• Studio voted Best Dance Studio by newspaper readers.
On October 26, 2000, our studio was awarded The Bay Area's Best Dance Studio for 2000 by readers of the Argus. A group of our students danced as entertainment at the awards ceremony held at the West Side Club in Oakland. This is a great honor for our studio and we'd like to thank all the readers of The Argus who voted for us.

• Japan trip huge success.
From November 1st to November 11th, twenty-one of our girls travelled to Fukaya City, Fremont's Sister City in Japan. As young ambassadors from America, Yoko's girls represented Fremont in celebration of Fukaya City's 45th Anniversary. Highlights of the trip included performing at the anniversary's opening ceremony, at all the city's junior high schools and at a special banquet for visiting dignitaries from Fremont, Australia and China. The girls were also welcomed by the Governor of Saitama, a very high honor (see photo).

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