Ballet Intensive in Savannah, Georgia,
with master teacher Danny Tidwell.
The focus for this intensive was on
technique and form in ballet and
pointe. She also took part in all of
Vidalia Ballet’s summer intensives.
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When Logan was in her junior
year of high school, Jennifer Wooten
took ownership of Vidalia Ballet. “The
former studio owner had not offered
competitive dancing. I was already
a junior in high school, which is a
little late to start in the competitive
process,” said Logan. Even so, she
thrived on the new experience. It
seemed to be what she needed to want
to push herself to excel.
With dance practice three days a
week, she focused on ballet, pointe,
jazz, and contemporary styles of
dance. Her senior year of high school,
Logan was awarded the part of the
Sugar Plum Fairy in the Vidalia Ballet
Nutcracker performance and The
Rabbit in the Alice in Wonderland spring
recital. While learning all of her dances
for her recitals, she also learned the
choreography for the dances in which
she would compete. And her hard
work paid off. Logan’s duo and group
dances earned first place in overall
performances. “We were Platinum and
Overall Category winners throughout
the two years we competed.” (After
graduating from VHS in 2018, Logan
continued to compete with the Vidalia
Ballet Competition Team for the next
two summers and won 2nd place at
the Inspire Nationals with a jazz duo
performed with Tessa Gibase in 2019.)
Logan knew it was going to be
difficult to leave her life of dance
behind, but leaving the close-knit
friendships of her dance troupe proved
the most difficult part of all. “There
were six of us that had been dancing
together since we were four-years-old.”
When Logan began the Freshman
College Experience classes the summer
of 2018, she also attended classes
in ballet, jazz, and contemporary
at DANCEFX, a non-profit dance
organization in Athens. By the time
school began that fall, Logan had
discovered there were several dance
groups on campus that performed
at sports games like the Georgia
Georgettes, the official dance team for
the UGA Redcoat Band, and the Dance
Dawgs who perform at basketball