🇭🇲🇳🇱 Mahlia van den Aardweg ✨️8yo Dancer•Actor•Singer•Model✨️

😲😲😲 CAN'T ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT!! I can definitely say that I left it all on the stage today at @futurestarsdancecomp Finals on the Gold Coast 😊 😍The level of the dancing was amazing, with big sections.. So loved watching all the routines and meeting new friends and also catching up with all the friends that I have met over this first year!! 🙏Thank you so much to my beautiful friends @isadancegymlife and @amelie_dancer for making the huge effort to be there to cheer me on, you are just the most amazing friends❤️!! My competition goal is to always just keep dancing better than the comp before, I work so hard at it 💪. These results make me just so proud and so grateful to everyone that supports me and to my studio @dance_at_npda 🥰 🥇7s Lyrical @supreme_team_aus_ 🥈8s Contemporary @acrobatics_plus 🥇8s Self-Choreography Me 😉 🥈7s Jazz @tianah.gesell 🏆National Champion Ultimate Stars 🤯 (Contemporary) @supreme_team_aus_ Love love love my Choreography and my amazing teachers, hope I made you proud ❤️

✨️ 𝒜𝓁𝓁 ℴ𝒻 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓈 ✨️ U8 Lyrical troupe @noosahouseofdance at @supremedanceexperience Sunshine Coast ❤. Loved doing this beautiful Lyrical with my U8 dance sisters for the first time 🥰. Been working hard on Knee Drops, and what a perfect capture by @pointeshootlove 😍

So excited to be walking at @kidzfashionweek on the 20th July 😍. Let's get Festive!!! @jrmanagement

Mahlia felt she was stuck in her acro for a little while. She had the ability and knowledge, but her brain was stopping her (especially going backwards). But she had patience, and all of a sudden yesterday, exactly one year after she first got her side aerial, something was unlocked!!! Check out the last tumble, excited is an understatement 🤣 Then of course, her usual post dancing food- FROZEN SMOOTHIE BOWL 😋

YES IT CAME, IT CAME!! Obsessed with these unitards from @acrolete_artistic_athleticwear 😍😍😍

About yesterday 😍😍😍 @mastersofdance_qld was incredible! How lucky we are to have this amazing part time program 🥰. So awesome to have so many new friends there too!! Love starting the mornings with ballet @megditchfield__ and IDT. Video 1- We entered the world of Fosse, I loved this style so much! It was so much fun, thank you for the experience @brendan__blank Video 2- awesome jazz combo with @denbieperrin.choreography 💖 Thank you!! Video 3- TAP is challenging to learn for me, but absolutely loving it with @meganlouisewest Thank you @ashygrace06 for all you do!!!

😍 Some little bits out of my dances at @lightupthestage_dance Maryborough 🥰 Love them all so much, and can't wait to see how they grow ❤️ @noosahouseofdance @mastersofdance_qld @jrmanagement @acrobatics_plus

🤯Woohooo I recieved Runner-up for the @danceprescription GC Flexibility Challenge!!! So proud of my progress, I worked really hard at it 🥰❤️ This was only over a few weeks! Thank you so much Coach Lara @lara.mellon and huge congratulations to my DP bestie, Jewel @maisieskye_dancer for winning! You rock 😍

😍 @danceprescription viewing day!! We got to show our parents what a class of DP is like, with Coach Lara @lara.mellon kicking our butts (which we love of course 🤣). Always an awesome time with my DP family. You all inspire me, and I look up to you all so much!!! You make the huge drive to Gold Coast every second week, so worthwhile ❤️ Thanks to my super duper friend @opal_rose.123 for the fun car ride and coming to watch xxx

What an incredible day at @mastersofdance_qld 😍 Here are some very short snippets of my favourite combos. 1. @kelsi_choreography loved learning this new type of style for me 🥰 that end move felt magical! 2. Some improv after @ashygrace06 Beautiful combo ❤️ 3. Slow mo of my new favourite move 😅 Learning and improving so much through this part-time program on a Friday, with some of my beautiful friends!!! So very lucky to be able to learn from these incredible industry leaders 🔥🔥🔥

Always an amazing time at @lightupthestage_dance 😍 Had the best day with two of my dance besties. Always my favourite rival 🤣🤣🤣 @scarlettl_dancingqueen 🥰 and @isadancegymlife (thank you so much for looking after my crazy little sister while I danced and for giving me your tips on runway!!!). Thank you to the judges @taylorjadebeer and Lisa Murphy, your critiques are so lovely! I had so much fun with my first runway 😍 and my little sister was absolutely hilarious, crying because she didn't want to leave the stage 🤣 I was so grateful to come away with- 👑 Full Runway Champion 🏆Runner-up Champs 10s 🏆2nd overall Highest point score 8s 🏆Improv winner-🥳 been working so hard on this! 🥇Jazz- @misssimonevanderwolf 🥇Song and Dance- @theonlineadjudicator And @loud.coaching (my projection is getting there 😅) 🥇Self-Choreography 🥈Contemporary- @symiko.moves 🥉Lyrical- @acrobatics_plus Thank you always to my studio @noosahouseofdance and to my teachers that help me so much in class and in privates @ashygrace06 @megditchfield__ @jessica_laine_taylor and my programs @mastersofdance_qld @acrobatics_plus @danceprescription

Mum post~ 😍 Mahlias first front aerial on stage. She has been working so hard on her confidence to do it!! Her first reaction was, "I didn't stretch my knee, and my arm was in the wrong place?!!". 😔 Please, PLEASE be kind to yourselves and celebrate every little win along the way. You are all amazing 👏 ❤️ So proud of you little one 🥰 @theonlineadjudicator @noosahouseofdance @acrobatics_plus @maryborough_dance_eisteddfod @ashleyboothphotography