By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism.
DANCE MOMS CAST
Manteca studios students part of Lifetime show
DANCE CHEER STARS TV1 3-18-16
Dance and Cheer Stars of Manteca dancers, from left, Alyssa Powers, Anasity Anaya, Tabitha Lira, and Kaylee Mejia were recently featured on the national TV show Dance Moms on the Lifetime channel. - photo by HIME ROMERO/ The Bulletin
It’s high-energy and it’s high-intensity and its cutthroat and it’s brutal. And as a group of dancers from Harmony Rebeiro’s Manteca Dance Stars learned that it’s all just made for television.Earlier this year Rebeiro took a team of four of her top dancers – Kaylee Mejia, Tabitha Lira, Anasity Anaya and Alyssa Powers – down to Southern California for a live filming of the popular Lifetime television series Dance Moms. And not only did they get to see some of their favorite dancers perform on the show, they got to grace the same stage – performing solo routines as “competitors.”But while the show portrays an often brutal dance competition scene where judges and mothers push their competitors to the limit – and dramatics ensue both in the audience and backstage – Rebeiro wanted her up-and-coming dancers to see something that most people don’t ever get the chance to see.