A Year in Review: Magnifying Him in Season 21
There are three ways to define the word “reflect.” The first is to throw back light or sound without absorbing it, like the Earth reflects most of the heat from the sun’s rays back into space. The second is to embody or represent something, the way a person’s behavior should reflect their values. Lastly, we can define it as thinking deeply or carefully about something—as in to reflect with joy on the year we’re leaving behind.
This year, 846 students comprised 1,482 spaces in 119 classes at Turning Pointe Dance. Those students and families voted Turning Pointe Best of the Springs Gold in the categories of Best Dance Studio for Kids and Best Dance Studio for Adults—a title we’ve been honored to hold 11 of the last 12 years. We culminated the season celebrating 28 preschool dance performances, two acting and vocal showcases, and 22 graduating seniors, and by staging 82 dances across 9 full-scale recitals.
We continued our commitment to the community by forming and fostering partnerships with Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado, Springs Rescue Mission, World Challenge Kids, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Every Village, and many more. Our students performed for the Daughters of the King at First Presbyterian Church Downtown, at the International Easter Celebration at The Ascent Church, and for Sunrise United Methodist Church’s Eggstravaganza. They performed and visited with the residents of Brookdale Vista Grande and The Gardens at View Pointe senior centers, ran 2.2 miles for Baylee Hope, and both taught and demonstrated dance at Inspiration Elementary’s Family Arts Night.
More than that, each class dove deeper into the word of God. As a studio, we studied scriptures and devotional prompts, learning to magnify Him together through community, leadership, thanksgiving, praise, surrender, love, service, sacrifice, and witness. We set out not to be a microscope, but to act as a telescope—collecting the light and making Him easier for others to see. In this spirit, as we close the 2024-25 dance season, we encourage you to join us in keeping all three definitions of the word “reflect” in mind.
Rather than absorbing the spotlights and the applause for ourselves, we give the glory right back to the Father—the one who gave each and every one of us the ability to dance, sing, and perform. We thank Him for the students, staff, and families He assembled in His name this season, and give Him the glory for every challenge and success this year saw. Rather than comparing our year or our dancing and progress to others, we refine our words, hearts, movements and actions as a reflection of our Creator, mirroring His character above any way we think (or are told) we should look, or where we think (or are told) we should be. Finally, as we look back deeply and carefully on 21 years of Turning Pointe Dance, we reflect with gratitude on the years behind, and look forward to all the years of joyful dancing ahead.
To each and every student and family who experienced the Turning Pointe difference with us this season—THANK YOU! Thank you for trusting us with your training, and for believing in what we do. Thank you for your support, your grace, and for lending your time and your talents to our vision, mission and values. But above all, thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
What Comes Next?
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Upcoming Auditions:
Fidèle Youth Dance Company
● Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor
● 2026 FYDC Missions Team
Audition sign ups open June 1.
Audition Saturday, June 28, or submit a video audition by the same day.
More information: https://www.fideleyouthdancecompany.com/auditions
Turning Pointe’s Training Division
Audition Monday, July 28
More information: https://turningpointeschoolofdance.com/training-division-cecchetti-syllabus
STARZ Theater Company
● The Prince of Egypt
Audition sign ups open September 13.
Audition September 26-27
More information: https://www.starztheater.org/princeofegyptaudition