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Winner of the 2021 Mayor's Community Service Award
Welcome!
Fall 2023 info below!
Follow us as we celebrate our 10th Season of fun!
We are run on 100% Volunteers and YOU, the COMMUNITY, help us run!
Fall 2023 Info Below!
Who are we?
Bulldogs Spirit Poms and Dance offers a unique opportunity to the community. We combine dance instruction with a competition team, as well as giving special opportunities a dance performance company would usually have. We blend ALL of that together, plus many more fun events throughout the Seasons to make each year unique. We rely on the community to help keep our costs low with fundraisers, special camps, and just spreading the word so we can give back and keep costs affordable!
Programs we offer - Fall and Spring 22'-23'
Princess Poms
Platinum Team
Princess Poms
Princess Poms is like a "Super" combo class all in 1! This Team is for the Kindergarten age group in our community. In the Fall we learn Jazz, Poms and Ballet, and learn a Poms competition dance on top of a Ballet dance for our Showcase. In the Spring we learn Jazz, Poms and Tap, and work on our Poms dance along with a Tap dance for ou
Princess Poms is like a "Super" combo class all in 1! This Team is for the Kindergarten age group in our community. In the Fall we learn Jazz, Poms and Ballet, and learn a Poms competition dance on top of a Ballet dance for our Showcase. In the Spring we learn Jazz, Poms and Tap, and work on our Poms dance along with a Tap dance for our Showcase! The best deal in the area for those who want to try it all!
Purple Team
Platinum Team
Princess Poms
Purple Team is for grades 1st-3rd. They work on Jazz and Poms through the Season. Lots of our girls have started on our Princess Poms Team, moved up and learned even harder skills much quicker to show off in our routines!
We also offer opportunities throughout the Season for fun performances!
Silver Team
Platinum Team
Platinum Team
Silver Team is for grades 4th-5th. They work on Jazz and Poms through the Season. Lots of our older girls have gymnastic and acro training that they like to show off, and we give them the dance skills they need to nail their competition dances!
We also offer opportunities throughout the Season for fun performances!
Platinum Team
Platinum Team
Platinum Team
Platinum Team is our Jr. High Team, grades 6th-8th. They work on Jazz, Poms, Strengthening/ Conditioning and Ballet/Lyrical. Our Coaches have taught all-level classes so your dancer can get the personalized teaching they deserve!
We also offer opportunities throughout the Season for fun performances!
Premier Team
Hip-Hop Dance Team! Ages 8-12!
Jazz Team! Ages 8-12!
Premier Team is our High School Team, grades 9th-12th. They work on Jazz, Poms, Strengthening/Conditioning, and Ballet/Lyrical if time permits during the busy competition Seasons! Our Jr. High and High School Teams have more opportunities for extra competitions!
Jazz Team! Ages 8-12!
Hip-Hop Dance Team! Ages 8-12!
Jazz Team! Ages 8-12!
Our dancers will work on Jazz technique, and compete in the Spring. For Fall they will perform at Trick-or-Treat on Main Street with us, learn a second dance to perform at our Christmas Showcase, and in the Spring they will compete, as well as learn another dance to perform at the Spring Showcase! Lots of bang for your buck! If you or
Our dancers will work on Jazz technique, and compete in the Spring. For Fall they will perform at Trick-or-Treat on Main Street with us, learn a second dance to perform at our Christmas Showcase, and in the Spring they will compete, as well as learn another dance to perform at the Spring Showcase! Lots of bang for your buck! If you or someone you know would enjoy dancing this Fall and Spring with us, please pass it on and we will be happy to answer any questions, just be sure to contact us right away as this has a short window time for registration!
Hip-Hop Dance Team! Ages 8-12!
Hip-Hop Dance Team! Ages 8-12!
Hip-Hop Dance Team! Ages 8-12!
⭐️SEPARATE COMPETITIVE TRYOUT HIP-HOP TEAM FOR BOYS AND GIRLS AGES 8-12!⭐️
💜 We've been planning this, and now, we are ready to unveil!! This fall season we will be adding a separate competitive hip-hop team!
🤩 Coach Christine has always had a passion and love for hip-hop. And with her experienced background, she's ready to get her sa
⭐️SEPARATE COMPETITIVE TRYOUT HIP-HOP TEAM FOR BOYS AND GIRLS AGES 8-12!⭐️
💜 We've been planning this, and now, we are ready to unveil!! This fall season we will be adding a separate competitive hip-hop team!
🤩 Coach Christine has always had a passion and love for hip-hop. And with her experienced background, she's ready to get her sass on with our dancers!
We are taking names NOW for our list. More details are to come, but feel free to contact info.bulldogspiritpoms@yahoo.com or visit our website https://bulldogsspiritpomsanddance.com/ for more info!
Baby Bulldogs
Hip-Hop Dance Team! Ages 8-12!
Hip-Hop Dance Team! Ages 8-12!
Baby Bulldogs!
Many know that our Princess Poms Team is like a Super-Combo Class for Kindergarteners, where our dancers learn 4 styles throughout an entire year and compete, but for those with 3-4-year olds who are just starting out and enjoy the excitement of an end-of-the-year Showcase while learning the fundamentals of dance, now’s the
Baby Bulldogs!
Many know that our Princess Poms Team is like a Super-Combo Class for Kindergarteners, where our dancers learn 4 styles throughout an entire year and compete, but for those with 3-4-year olds who are just starting out and enjoy the excitement of an end-of-the-year Showcase while learning the fundamentals of dance, now’s the time to sign up!
Your little ones will get to enjoy a fun, encouraging environment while learning the fundamentals of dance (Royal Academy of Dance curriculum is implemented), exploring space and rhythm, and performing for their families at the end of the Season! A 12-week session that you don’t want to miss out on! All your dancer needs are ballet slippers, tights for their costume and we provide the rest! Spaces are very limited and we have a minimum/maximum for class so sign up ASAP!
Adult Basic/Beginner Tap
Adult Basic/Beginner Tap
Adult Basic/Beginner Tap
Working on your counts in your dances? Need to get in some cardio? Curious about tap dance in general? Maybe you took lessons as a child and would like to get back into the groove?
We are excited to offer tap lessons this Season, and spaces are very limited, everyone is welcome to join while they can! We have a minimum/maximum for our gr
Working on your counts in your dances? Need to get in some cardio? Curious about tap dance in general? Maybe you took lessons as a child and would like to get back into the groove?
We are excited to offer tap lessons this Season, and spaces are very limited, everyone is welcome to join while they can! We have a minimum/maximum for our group numbers so sign up for this 12-week session ASAP!
Miss Catherine has been teaching tap with various programs for nearly 20 years. Her bio is available on our website! We have always incorporated tap and ballet into our Princess Poms program, but now in response to repeated requests from our Poms families, we will offer tap as a stand-alone lesson!
In using metal taps on the heels and toes of a dancer’s shoes, this is one of the ways this can transform the dancer into a percussive musician. Of course, there’s more to tap than just fancy tricks like wings and toe stands, there are rubrics created over 70 years ago that help tap dancers with the basics and give them a good, solid foundation to build on.
All lessons will be basic/beginner level with a relaxed atmosphere, if you’d like to sign up, let us know and we’ll get tapping! Our goal is to have our tap group be a Showcase Group that performs in our Spring Showcase!
Anyone Jr. High through adult, come sign up and join in on the fun! Everyone is considered a dancer in our Bulldogs Spirit family!
Cardio Drumming!
Adult Basic/Beginner Tap
Adult Basic/Beginner Tap
Our Showcase Group that is a cardio/ drumming program, the FIRST and ONLY in the area! Work on rhythm, learning drum patterns while your routine incorporates cardio, using a yoga ball on a base and drumsticks as your instruments!
Your 22'-23' Staff!
Miss Catherine, Founder, Coach, Private Lessons
Miss Christine, Head Coach, Graphics and Design/Marketing
Miss Christine, Head Coach, Graphics and Design/Marketing
Miss Catherine was born and raised in Chicago and has over 3 decades of dance training from the heart of the City and the surrounding suburbs. Since the age of 3 she has been studying dance, performing all over the Chicagoland suburbs, competing for several years and sharing her love of dance with her community for over a decade. She has
Miss Catherine was born and raised in Chicago and has over 3 decades of dance training from the heart of the City and the surrounding suburbs. Since the age of 3 she has been studying dance, performing all over the Chicagoland suburbs, competing for several years and sharing her love of dance with her community for over a decade. She has taught at park districts, dance studios in the Chicagoland suburbs, taught dance numbers for her church's musical theater programs and implemented a worship dance program in Lake Zurich. She has spent 20 years working with inner city youth in the Kilbourn Park/Humboldt Park area, while also working with children in the suburbs (Preschool-Middle School), and for several years as a Director for an after-school youth program for children 3rd-6th grade in the Inner City serving children in the Kilbourn Park/Humboldt Park area. Just some of the responsibilities as Director includes lesson planning, games/activities, outings, and sports events/training. She has worked in the field of Accounting for 16 years and has a passion for dedication and commitment. “Ingenuity” is her motto!
She was accepted at the age of 3 to study under Mary Lou Troumanhouser (a student of Tommy Sutton), the former owner of (the former) The Dance Academy in Chicago. Since then she has performed all over Chicagoland, some of those places including The Copernicus Center, Navy Pier, The Daley Center, The Children’s Museum, the opening of the Norwood Park Historical Society, and The Portage Theater. She won top in dance routines for Waucondafest has Talent in 2011, and was given the opportunity to perform at the Pritzker Theater in 2011 and Carnegie Hall. She has performed at festivals and shows all over the Chicagoland suburbs and competed with high honors in dance competitions with companies such as Starlight, Rainbow Connection, Footlites, Starpower and StarQuest. She has studied Tap extensively as well as Jazz, Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Lyrical and Hip Hop. After studying for over a decade at The Dance Academy in Chicago she moved to the Barrington/Wauconda area, and immediately got involved in the communities around her. She taught all forms of dance for several years at the Island Lake Park District starting in 2005 and studied/taught at the former Dancer’s Pointe in Island Lake. She started offering Tap, Jazz/Hip Hop, Ballet, Tumbling and Poms starting at the Village of Island Lake in 2005 and on and off until 2013. At the same time, she traveled extensively to Chicago to study under teachers at The Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Lou Conte Dance Studio, and several others. She took time off teaching until 2017 to focus on private lessons and classes, got married, and had a little dancer of her own. She has taken innumerable classes and workshops with the best for Tap. Her favorite teachers to study tap from have been Tre Dumas III, Lane Alexander, Phil Brooks and JaBowen Dixon. She has studied all forms of dance under teachers such as Mary Lou Troumanhouser, Jeanne Sok, Kathy DeMaira, Inaside Chicago Dance’s Nell Heflin, Dionna Pridgeon, Chicago Dance Crash’s Chris Courtney, Step Africa!’s Jakari Sherman, Chicago Movement Collective’s Melinda Wilson, private lessons with JaBowen Dixon and many more. She enjoys contributing to the Chicago Human Rhythm Project and Dance Accepts Everyone, studies Music Theory in her free time, and loves to add to her extensive dance curriculum. She has carefully crafted the syllabus she and all of the coaches use from her 30 years of dance experience and knowledge, and has taught ALL of our staff in the last two decades, starting at the Village of Island Lake.
Continued study is the mark of a true artist. Performing is fun but the hard work behind the scenes is what she truly enjoys. Miss Catherine loves to bring the latest styles to her students, so she brings in amazing teachers to give the newest and best ideas, continues to study from her favorite teachers, taking workshops, networking with successful teachers and directors, and continuing her growth as a teacher and director, but also as a dancer. She works with successful programs and is a member of Progressive Ballet Technique, Just for Kix and many more! She truly enjoys volunteering and serving the community and has been blessed to move into the 10th successful Season of our program. Ingenuity is her most important motto. Whether it's tap dancing on planks at local fests, dancing on the grass, carpet with tap masters or sand, "We can always make it work!" Not only is she excited to pass her love of dance to the 3rd generation of dancers in her family, she is excited to continue giving back to the community she's been involved with for decades and has a passion to work with children and adults alike, training them in dance and expression and having them carry that with them through whatever adventures they have in life!
Miss Christine, Head Coach, Graphics and Design/Marketing
Miss Christine, Head Coach, Graphics and Design/Marketing
Miss Christine, Head Coach, Graphics and Design/Marketing
We are proud to have Miss Christine as our Head Coach since our founding in 2018. She has been dancing since she was 5 years old, starting her training in the heart of Chicago at (the former) The Dance Academy by learning from teachers such as Sharon Girten, Jeanne Sok and Kathy DeMaira. After moving to the Barrington/Wauconda area she st
We are proud to have Miss Christine as our Head Coach since our founding in 2018. She has been dancing since she was 5 years old, starting her training in the heart of Chicago at (the former) The Dance Academy by learning from teachers such as Sharon Girten, Jeanne Sok and Kathy DeMaira. After moving to the Barrington/Wauconda area she studied at the Village of Island Lake’s Dance program and the former Dancer’s Pointe in Island Lake. She has studied Poms, Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Hip Hop. She was a cheerleader in the Wauconda Bulldogs Cheer program and an All-Star Cheerleader at Cheer Fusion. She has danced and competed with the former Premier Poms in Barrington, and has coached Rec Cheer and Poms. She has experience performing in and out of State competing in Poms, Hip-Hop and Kickline. She has performed Poms, Hip-Hop and Kickline for halftime many times at Chicago Bulls Games as well! She helped found the Wauconda Bulldogs Men of Cheer and their choreography (2012-2017), and in addition to doing choreography for our Bulldogs Spirit Teams she jumped right in and choreographed our first Bulldogs Spirit Poms and Dance Parent/Family Routine for our Windy City Bulls Game performances in 2018 and 2019! She has brought our Teams over 70 (Regional and National) Championship wins, and a State Championship win in the short time we have been in the community! She was a Pre-K/K Teacher for 4 years at a local private school, and created curriculums for this program as well to help enrich their learning experience. She currently has her B.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications. She lives in Wauconda, and loves the lake life and volunteering in the community! We are so excited for our 10th Season with Miss Christine, she loves meeting all our new dancers, making our girls laugh, and bringing her passion for teaching children and love of dance to everyone!
Miss Kelly, Assistant Coach
Miss Christine, Head Coach, Graphics and Design/Marketing
Miss Kelly, Assistant Coach
Miss Kelly has been studying and performing dance for 16 years. She has also done cheer but soon found that dance was her passion. She started when she was in 6th grade, all the way through High School competing and beyond. She has studied Open Dance, Poms, Hip Hop, Lyrical and Contemporary. Her favorite go-to dance style is Lyrical/C
Miss Kelly has been studying and performing dance for 16 years. She has also done cheer but soon found that dance was her passion. She started when she was in 6th grade, all the way through High School competing and beyond. She has studied Open Dance, Poms, Hip Hop, Lyrical and Contemporary. Her favorite go-to dance style is Lyrical/Contemporary. When she is not dancing, she is a school nurse and going to school for her Masters in Nursing Education and graduating in August 2023! She has been with Bulldogs Spirit since the very beginning and each time she comes to practice and sees her dancers hit those milestones (like landing double pirouettes!) with excitement it makes her remember why she loves doing what she does!
Miss Ally, Jr. Coach
Miss Isabella, Jr. Coach
Miss Kelly, Assistant Coach
Miss Ally started dance at the age of 3 and cheer at the age of 5 and has training in Cheer, Poms (and competitive poms before Bulldogs Spirit), Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Pointe, Lyrical and Contemporary! She has just recently been crowned Miss Intermediate Dancer First Runner Up, won Top First Place, and was awarded the "NYC All Stars" invitation to an All-Star Dancers experience in New York!
Miss Leah, Jr. Coach
Miss Isabella, Jr. Coach
Miss Isabella, Jr. Coach
Miss Leah has been dancing since she was 3 years old and has experience in Ballet, Modern, Tap, Lyrical, Jazz and Poms! Her Team most recently won Dance Grand Champions at the Kalahari and Duet won 1st in National Championships!
Miss Isabella, Jr. Coach
Miss Isabella, Jr. Coach
Miss Isabella, Jr. Coach
Miss Isabella has been dancing since she was 4 and has training in Ballet, Tap, Hip Hop, Jazz, Lyrical and Poms! Her Team most recently won Dance Grand Champions at the Kalahari, and she was just awarded membership to the National Junior Honor Society as well as winning 1st in National Championships!
Ways to support us!
Sponsorships and Donations
Contact us for paperwork if you would like to help our programs run by becoming a sponsor or donating! You are advertised on our Facebook page, website, a banner displayed at parades, and more! Ask us how your dancer can dance for free if you are a sponsor!
Our Partners/Sponsors/Support Current and Past
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Mission Statement
Open to all girls and boys in public, private and homeschools in all communities, Bulldogs Spirit Poms and Dance is a non-profit organization promoting the importance of sportsmanship, commitment, determination, teamwork, self-confidence, enthusiasm and team spirit, a passion for the art of dance, and the value of community service in our area youth.
"Dance Big, Dream Big, Care Big!"