Miriam's freshman ballroom

Some of our previous posts touched on Miriam's ballroom performances in her first year of high school. This post will document all the rest.

Friday, January 10: Basketball halftime

Miriam dances their rock medley with Dallin.

Saturday, January 18: Eastern Idaho Ballroom Show

Every year the BHS ballroom team hosts this show at the Civic Auditorium. 

Dancing "Pictures of Mountains" with a cell phone (which was actually just a case).

Dancing the rock medley. This girl has the best ballroom performance faces. 

Thursday, March 26-Friday, March 27: Gem State

This year Bonneville hosted this big even held during spring break every year. (Just in case the disgruntledness isn't coming through, I'm a little salty about having to give up part of our spring break for this comp.) Day one had all of Miriam's syllabus events; day two had all of the team events.

Miriam (and Aiden) got 1st place in Junior Bronze B samba and (and Dallin) got 6th place in Junior Bronze A international waltz. The team got 1st place in youth rhythm/Latin, division 3 small with their rock medley; 1st in youth rhythm/Latin, novice with "Baiana;" 1st in youth smooth/standard, novice for "Pictures of Mountains;" and 2nd in youth novelty/division 3 for "Charleston Green Hill."

Miriam's hair (I tried for so long to do a different style, but I just couldn't get it to work, so Miriam graciously chose something else that I could handle) and makeup (done by Ana).

Group high five with other BHS ballroom members.

Dancing with Makio.

Getting pictures taken with Aiden for their first place in samba.

Dancing the Charleston during the team events on her birthday. 

Monday, May 19: End of year show

This was a bittersweet even because Miriam had chosen not to try out for the following year's team. She loves dancing, but being all-in for both band and ballroom proved to be a lot. She chose to focus on band and academics in her 2025-2026 school year.

It was still a delight seeing her on the stage. She's a talented, graceful dancer and draws all the viewers in with her energy and facial expressions.

Rock medley with Dallin.

Charleston with Connor.

"Pictures of Mountains."

"Feels This Good" with Connor.

"Baiana."

"Pitch Perfect."

Finale that honors the seniors (this year there was only 1: Dallin) and featuring all of the dancers in all age groups.

Miriam holding up her hands to have her "Spirit of Ballroom" sweatshirt tossed to her. She won the award two years in a row.