{"id":45764,"date":"2024-06-04T22:17:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T01:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=45764"},"modified":"2024-06-04T22:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T01:17:35","slug":"three-local-dancers-excited-for-once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=45764","title":{"rendered":"Three local dancers excited for once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>MAIN PHOTO: Dancers from Milford and Fall River will be part of Team Canada at the Dance World Cup in Prague at the end of the month. Alessia Silveyra, Hailey MacDonald, and Kylie Paul were selected after auditions. (Healey photo)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Two dancers from Fall River and one from Milford are getting ready for a once-in-a-lifetime experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kylie Paul of Milford; Hailey MacDonald of Fall River; and Alessia Silveyra of Fall River, will be joining other dancers as part of Team Canada, made up of 200 dancers, at the upcoming Dance World Cup championship being held June 27 to July 6 in Prague, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kylie and Hailey will be on the Junior and Senior Jazz and Junior Contemporary Canadian Dance teams. Hailey was also selected to do a trio with other girls from the Eastern Canadian Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Alessia will be in the Children\u2019s hip hop and Children\u2019s Contemporary Canadian Dance teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three agree it is exciting to get to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will be a good opportunity for all of us to learn from the other dancers there,\u201d said MacDonald, 16, a Lockview High student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;54&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hailey and Kylie dance competitively with Dance Zone Performing Arts Centre in Elmsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alessia dances competitively with Motion Dance Centre in Lower Sackville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Dance Quest, the girls auditioned to join the team, and as they say the rest is history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were told a couple weeks later that we made it,\u201d said MacDonald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said she was on Cloud Nine when told she made the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was so excited and wanted to learn more about it,\u201d she said during the interview at the Fall River Dairy Queen on a rainy Friday at supper time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girls are continuing to fundraise to be able to cover costs. Corporate sponsors are welcomed and can contact Hailey\u2019s mom Amanda at <a href=\"mailto:Moi_amc@hotmail.com\">Moi_amc@hotmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul is super excited to go to Prague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s just looking forward to taking in all the routines put on by the dancers from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be super cool,\u201d said Paul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VIDEO: The girls teach Pat a dance move. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: Pat gets taught a dance move\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dTJLlmDP6Os?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul, 15, wasn\u2019t expecting to get selected for the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was super surprised,\u201d said the Grade 9 student at East Hants Rural High School in Milford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She called it an honour to wear the Canadian colours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll my friends are excited for me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silveyra, 14, is excited to go perform in Prague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to go represent my country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Hailey and Kylie, she was over the moon when she got word she made it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was surprised because I only auditioned for fun, and then getting this opportunity is really cool,\u201d said Silveyra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing that the three are from small communities within Nova Scotia and were picked to be part of Team Canada isn\u2019t lost on the three as to how big of an accomplishment it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s cool that we\u2019re getting to go to this and we\u2019re from a small town,\u201d Paul said. \u2018We get to represent Canada on the world stage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three were asked what it meant to them to get to wear the Team Canada colours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s cool and exciting that I\u2019m good enough to represent Canada,\u201d said MacDonald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot because I come from a small dance studio so getting to put on the Canadian colours means a lot,\u201d said Silveyra. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty special. It\u2019s pretty big.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Cup of Dance in Prague is the second largest amateur sporting event in the world next to the Olympics. 68 Countries are competing this year and 6000 dancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwcworld.com\/\">Dance World Cup (dwcworld.com)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;67&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] MAIN PHOTO: Dancers from Milford and Fall River will be part of Team Canada at the Dance World Cup in Prague at the end of the month. Alessia Silveyra, Hailey MacDonald, and Kylie Paul were selected after auditions. 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