Unleashed JLAADA Showcase 2022 Program!!

Director's Notes Every year is a different creation process with our showcase!!! There is always a lot of influence from my own personal feelings and experiences, but this year I wanted to look deeper and express through songs and routines how UNLEASHED we all should be!! During the process of looking for songs, I realized that 95% of the songs I had already found for the show were empowering, happy or already \"unleashed\"! All I had left was to look for some songs that were waiting to be unleashed!! While putting this show together, I observed our JLAADA kids' smiles and personalities, the JLAADA adults' excitement about wearing fun makeup and costumes... and the teenagers, oh boy, the teenagers... they have so much to figure out and yet they can be so strong and sure about their thoughts, ideas and actions!! Life is truly wonderful, and the best way to live is being free! Tonight's show is a reminder to not stay too long in a place you don't belong... Break a bad pattern!!! BREAK THE CHAINS!! Unleash yourself!! Help a friend to be free!!! YOU are totally entitled to live how you want to live! BE UNLEASHED!!!!

Special Thanks I would like to give my very special THANKS to these amazing people that stay by my side, giving me all the support I need, people that I trust and can count to make our show safe, fun and fabulous!! To our Technical Team: Delaney Dumm, our sound operator, thanks for being here to celebrate one more show with your JLAADA Family, we love you! Ashley Santiago and Brennam McDonald, our spotlight operators, thanks for making all of us shine even brighter!!! Moni Ivanov, \"Bestie\", our five star rigger that keeps us safe through the whole process, making sure we can fly our highest! Our Rockstar Moms: Jade McGovern and Lindsey DeHaen, who help our kids backstage, with hair, make up and pretty much anything they need. Priscilla Iverson, she hops from the front door, straight to my opposite wing to the headset. If Tiffany and I are on stage, she is in charge!! No pressure!! :-D Valerie Sims-Chin, our awesome photographer! Having her own kids at JLAADA for the last six and a half years, she is a pro at capturing poses, tricks on the ground and in the air! Her stage photos are impeccable! Nikki Dumm, she photographs most all the fun and \"shenanigans\" on backstage!!! These two capture the best laughs and moments while our JLAADA stars are getting ready and shining on stage! Ryan Hartley and Valerie Nied, welcome to our JLAADA family! Thanks for sharing your talents with us! Nick Kelley, \"Billy\", our stage manager, makes sure that everyone is ready on time for their performance and ready to put on a great show! Haley Wayson keeps our kids and teenagers organized, in line and entertained with fun games and coloring! Emma Del Valle and Maria Torres, they are both basically everywhere, for whatever is needed. They make sure Tiffany and I have everything under control and are an extension of us! Last but definitely not least, Tiffany Lemos, my wife, best friend and business partner!! I might need to add an extra page just for her, :-). She keeps me sane and balanced! She makes everything I want just happen, she doesn't measure any effort to make all my dreams come true! She is my rock, bringing me happiness and peace!! My love, thanks for everything you do! Joyce