Dance Showcase USA – Local company celebrates 20 years

This past weekend starting on Thursday and running through Sunday, Dance

Showcase USA hosted a regional competition for dance studios from all over Texas including Houston, Odessa, Southlake, Coriscana, Dallas, Fort Worth, Frisco, Teague, Denison as well as Durant, Oklahoma. Thirty-seven studios were on the schedule. {{more}}

 

This regional event is at the KISD Performing Arts Center on the campus of Kennedale High School. The DFW Regional Dance competition is just one of seven that the company hosts in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas starting in February and running until May.

In June the National Dance Championships, a week long event, will be held at the PAC and put on by Dance Showcase USA will feature the winners from all the regional competitions.

The Showcase was a dream over twenty years ago of Glenda Boenig, a former teacher at Kennedale High School who started the Aristokats at the high school. It is not quite established yet whether her husband, Roy, was an original believer, but together they organized the business which has grown into one of the most recognized and respected dance competitions in Texas.

Glenda and Roy, longtime residents of Kennedale, have remained loyal to their hometown and to the school district. Not only residents, their children attended KISD and Roy formerly served on the KISD Boad of Trustees. In building their business, they have always used and paid for stage facilities in the district. One of the first things that they did was to donate a portable dance floor to the school district. They donated a new floor this year.

Glenda Boenig making presentation

They asked for no special favors from the district and have paid the going rental rate for use of facilities. As recently as two years ago when the Kennedale News checked on the money paid in rental fees, it was the equivalent of the utilities for a full year on the PAC which is in use by the KISD and Kennedale High School year round.

 

In addition, booster clubs and organizations at the high school have been able to raise money by operating the concessions at the events. Dance Showcase receives nothing from the money raised.

If you want to see cute to

the extremely talented, from pre-kindergarten to high school in solos to large

group productions, the Nationals will be June 23-28.

While there buy something at the concessions

stand and support a local student organization.