A Port Moody dance teacher tied for top last night (Sunday) for an Ovation! award, which celebrates the best musical theatre in the Lower Mainland from the previous year.
Nicol Spinola, who is on faculty at the Tri-City Dance Centre, scooped the Outstanding Choreography for a Musical prize for her steps in Cinderella, a Theatre Under the Stars production.
Spinola shares the 2019 accolade with Keri Minty, who won for her moves in Anne of Green Gables, a Capilano University show.
Both dancers beat out Port Coquitlam’s Valerie Easton, who was nominated for her choreography in the Arts Club Theatre musical Mamma Mia as well as for Cabaret with the Royal City Musical Theatre; the pair also bested Shelley Stewart Hunt (42nd Street, TUTS) and Patrice Bowler (Les Filles du Roi, Fugue/Raven).
The Ovation! awards were held at Vancouver Academy of Music.
