🥈 Intermediate Proam Strictly Follow with @keeriganr at @floorplayswingvacationnye
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Thank you Keerigan for such a fun dance to round out Floorplay and for my friends always cheering me on. This event was full of so much love and encouragement and I am so thankful to be entering 2026 this way.
🥇 High lead / low follow (novice) with @dancing.with.kai at @swingtober
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Its always special dancing with my favorite person and I am so thankful we got this opportunity to share our love for dance and be goofy along the way. We can never have a fully serious dance and honestly, that's what makes it so fun (especially for someone like me who gets crazy anxious competing 🤪, thanks for putting up with my shenanigans babe)
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Song: You Should Probably Leave by Chris Stapleton
Hi everyone! Just a little intro. I'm Kareen, I am NC based and I've always loved dancing! I grew up dancing in a studio and in college did a competitive hip hop team. A couple of years ago, I picked up line dancing and never looked back. I recently started learning partner dancing as well (primarily wcs). Anyone who knows me knows I am a total goofball and constantly playing with the music (sorry for the shenanigans leads, lol). When I'm not dancing, I'm working (I do science things), yelling at people on COD, or playing with my fur babies. If you ever see me, please say hi and snag a dance! Welcome to my dance page ✨️
Had an amazing time doing Intermediate Strictly with @dancing.with.kittykat at Swingover!! We’ve been wanting to do a strictly for a long time and it finally lined up. It was so worth the wait!
We made finals, but this dance from prelims was my favorite 😁😎
💃🏼: @dancing.with.kittykat
📍: Swingover @otownswing , Orlando, FL
🪩: Intermediate Strictly
4th Place Proam Strictly with @keeriganr at @otownswing SwingOver 2026!
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Everytime I dance with Keerigan it gets more fun. Super thankful he was willing to do this strictly with me because it set such a great tone for the weekend!!
Big happy birthday to my best friend, lover, and favorite lead. Baby hip hop dancer Kareen never would've imagined getting to dance through life with someone as incredible as you by my side. Cheers to all the shenanigans, accomplishments, and growth you will have this year. I am your biggest fan 💓
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A fun little first dance (on the most crowded floor EVER) for HelloMADJAM. Still laughing at the amount of elbows I caught and even the loss of my nose piercing during this!
⭐️ INT. STRICTLY ⭐️
I’m nearly convinced we made finals because of this dance. The moment it started Kareen and I had country swing flashbacks and knew what the mission was. Thanks for matching the vibe and acting an absolute fool with me on the dance floor. Apparently someone off the floor said ‘Okay and a leader is clapping??’
Musicality hello??
Anyway…special mention to Caio yelling ‘BOY’ from his own strictly line up after seeing the end of the dance lol
#wcs #westcoastswing #madjam #dancing #dance
4th in All American JnJ with @zathomaierdance at @floorplayswingvacationnye
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In true JnJ style, I had never met Za until we got lined up together! Thank you for such fun dances and I hope to see you at more events in the future. Floorplay... I miss you.
🔥K A R E E N R I V E R A🔥
Floorplay Int/Adv Combined Prelims
Kareen my love I adore you❤️. I’m so proud at how far you’ve come in mere MONTHS when it took me over double the time to get where you are now. You’re already an amazing person and partner but you’re also an amazing dancer too👌
I’m so glad we got to spend the last competition of 2025 doing it together. It was so much fun and I can’t wait to do it again 😊
Intermediate leads this one won’t be around for long. Intermediate follows watch out cause she’s comin in hot 🔥
💃: @kittykatdancer@dancing.with.kittykat
🕺: @dancing.with.kai
🎵: “Sweater Weather” by Ari Gumora
📍: @floorplayswingvacationnye -> Orlando, FL
#love #wcs #dance #competition #amazing
🥇 Novice Jack & Jill with @jaecg_ at @tbc_wcs
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I have so many words, but am also speechless. Thank you Jae for some of my most memorable dances of Novice. It was an honor dancing with you at your first event, you are phenomenal.
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Thank you to so many people who have cheered me on, supported me, and taught me. It has made me fall back in love with dance and truly keeps me pushing to be better.
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Novice, you were a fun time, but Intermediate here I come 💓
🥇 Novice West Coast Strictly Finals w/ @kittykatdancer ✨
🎥: @adelasu 👀
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This was my first wcs competition ever and I couldn’t have asked for better results this weekend getting first in all my comps 🧹and then 6th in the Hi-Lo, this week has been absolutely amazing!!!! The socials were lit, the music was dope and all the vibes were there the whole weekend!!✨Huge thanks to @backwards_hat_dancer and @knoxville.westies
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🥇ProAm JnJ w/ @lainiebainie
🥇Novice JnJ w/ @the_dancing_planespotter_99
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THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT DANCED WITH ME THIS WEEKEND!!!! (See yall at spotlight😉)
#callmecaz1 #knoxville #westcoastswing #atlanta #atlantaswingclassic #dance #explore
🥉 Int/Adv Female Line at @raleigh.moovmnt
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Fun story about this comp, I entered a week and a half before (peer pressure) and learned this prelims dance 3 days before 😅 I was PANICKING lol. However, this easily became one of my favorite dances shared with some of my favorite ladies. This dance just feels so good to do ✨️ Left the original audio because my friends are seriously the best support system (and they crack me up)
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Line Dance: Bottle It Up by the amazing @dancewithraquel
