LeilaPie

including @kendyldances, @curesity, @laylalayla6, @jddeacy, and @robynaparker

@cutiecouchies thank you for including Leighton.

Baby Mine will always bring a smile to my face. So cool it was considered among favorites! Thank you

When the song Lost Boy first came out I said to myself that I could see Leighton dancing to that AND GUESS WHAT HER SOLO IS

@dancersfierce - this is Leighton’s mom. You don’t know how much that means to me. When Rachel started with Leighton they started with a different song. It was a beautiful song (actually one of my favorites) but I am not going to lie I was a little sad it wasn’t Disney. I knew this was probably the last year of Disney but I also knew Rachel has picked the PERFECT song for Lei each year and she would not disappoint. By the next rehearsal the song had changed to Lost Boy and admittedly so Lei was a little hesitant but after her first time with the song she knew it was the perfect song for her. Side note - Leighton grew up a Disney baby. I started performing in the Disney parades when I was 17 and left at 25. I met my husband there (he is NOT a dancer). So Disney will always have a special place in our hearts ♥️

❤️this! thank you @dancersedits for putting this together, we had such an amazing team of girls.

Thank you @emmahellenkamp for including Leighton! She loved watching all the solos and being included.

@carmodance - this is Lisa (Leighton's mom). Re: the tights over leotards, I had such a laugh over that. For years I took ballet and couldn't wait until I was older so I could wear my tights over my leotard. I still remember the first class I went rogue and wore them over. I wore them like that all through college while I was still taking classes and even when I danced for Disney. To this day I have no clue why I wore them like that when I was younger? Maybe it was a way of feeling rebellious? Years later after kids I went back to ballet for a while and I still wore my tights over my leo but that was for different reasons - I felt like I could pull them up to hide post baby weight 😂

@carmodance I too am still confused why some comps don't post schedules. In response to anon - even when we do pay we often only get our studio's schedules. The only thing I can think of where money can be made is on the programs so in that sense anon could be right.