#Matissa

[aletheiawriting]

Hello! May I ask who the characters in your pfp are? Thank you have a good one!

Hey!! I haven't properly been in this account for ages... So I feel embarrassed right now... But it's a commission I got from artist pautipeep (twt, ig) of my two original characters Sagrei and Matissa 💕

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Larkin Lines '25!

Baby Legacy: aiden krick, aria johnson, ava dailey, aviana souter, bennie lemke, camryn anderson, charlotte morin, coco thueson, collins breiland, eliza clark, emmy tracey, felix carachuri, hailey laulainen, hattie holzman, joey ames, kadence brisson, larissa palma, lily mccune-barrett, oakley turk, reagan hatchett, remi meyer, sora le

Future Legacy: ari phelan, brielle shea, cylie adams, daphne mikkelson, elise wilson, elliott swenson, evie swenson, finley kill, ines matamoros, isla maroney, julian philippi, lina freeman, makayla hollerich, marvel grover, mira tian, pearl conway, sawyer schulte, vivian sweeney

Peewee Legacy: addyson williams, aeliana o'brien, alivia lindgren, audrey allen, cecilia santori, cosette kuh, etta mundahl, hazel montgomery, hazel wahlstrand, lydia tracy, maisy anderson, mckinley mlynarczyk, murphy moyer, noelle bottini, olivia scholl, presley turner, quinn befort, remington poquette, rosie xiong, sydney anderson, tenlee jyrkas

Petite Legacy: amira souter, ava fraser, bella harris, bethany hill, camille matamoros, chloe adams, claire hansen, clara deutsch, clara ziemke, ella austin, ellery lemke, ginny salinas, hallee anderson, isla bloss, jade glyzinski, juliana philippi, lyla lindgren, maraike dobberke, renee girard, sailor stormoen, stella ames, valerie greenig

Mini Legacy: brooklyn williams, charlie peery, charlotte tracy, chase lang, elle befort, emilia padesky, evelyn ringeisen, evie mccune-barrett, giuliana shea, harper kill, hayden haider, hazel ecklin, henley raak, kenna bloss, kinsley lissick, maddie kulenkamp, maddyn bauermeister, matinly conrad, morgan martens, sophia austin, truett ziemke

Junior Legacy: charlotte stoner, eleanor lamers, elia cocchiarella, halle kulenkamp, ingrid kromroy, jayla xiong, kylie roach, leah pribyl, lexie charnstrom, lilly anderson, maylin munos, mila ayshford, neala murphy, palmer peltier, reese ottney, reese ringold, savannah jackson, scarlett manzel, sloan simon, vera souvannavong, vivian greenig, whitney lissick

Junior Line: ava mccraine, ava rothmund*, isabella charnstrom, daphnie braun*, elle boudewyns, elle king, finley ashfield, giselle mourad, hailey turnbull, harlow pike*, hazel koshire, ingrid wirtz, juan pacheco, kate monge, kelsie jacobson, kennedy deuth, malia scott, mia kostinovski, savannah werner, sienna powers, tahari conrad, tillie kuhl

Senior Line: annika padelford, ashley gutz, ava munos, brynn kostka, caleb abea, cecelia thielen*, claire monge, clara koshire, delaney rosewell, erik barker, isabella jarvis*, keira redpath*, kira reissner, laci bloss, maddie radosevich, matissa conrad, olivia shelton, siena paradeau

*=captain!

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THE DANCE AWARDS LAS VEGAS 2024

Judge's Pick awards that didn't place in the top 10 Teen Solos:

Lily McFarland - THE COLONY

Lexi Bahena - DC2

Ava McCraine - LARKIN

Spencer Moss - THE COLONY

Olivia Shelton - LARKIN

Matissa Conrad - LARKIN

Claire Sifferlen - EXPRESSENZ

Failenn Daley - THE COLONY

Emma Arentz - THE COLONY

Harlow Pike - LARKIN

Tahari Conrad - LARKIN

Giselle Mourad - LARKIN

Nadia Wilde - LEVEL

Addison Thomas - PRODIGY

Peyton Szuberla - DANCEOLOGY

Carolyne Knutson - PRODIGY

Campbell Thurow - PRODIGY

Eden Hardy - WOODBURY

Faith Crain - PRODIGY

Fiona Sartain - DANCEOLOGY

Carley Jensen - WOODBURY

Lucy Cavender - BOBBIE’S

Issac Diaz - BOBBIE’S

Lyric Okrusch - THE DYNAMIC

A Ra Jun - MARIES

Cora Spencer - ARTISTIC DANCE PROJECT

Alyssa Anderson - BUNKER

Madelyn Bobby - DRIVE DANCE CO

Tristan Potter - ARTISTIC FUSION

Aubree Santillan - ACADEMY OF NV BALLET

Maddie Martin - EXPRESSENZ

Lauren Crooks - KIM MASSAY

Kinley Bertrand - THE DANCE KOLLECTIVE

Sofia Bayt - EXPRESSENZ

Kathryn Roth - EXPRESSENZ

Brizeida Hernandez - DANCE ACADEMY MONTERREY

Aedan Walker - OHANA DANCE

Alexis Alvarez - CLUB DANCE

Brooklyn Karayan - BOBBIE’S

Saige Scott - BOBBIE’S

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NUVO Omaha Teen/Senior Solo Results

Teen (Didn't hear 9th or 10th and maybe missed another for 8th):

1st: Ava Rothmund (Larkin)!

2nd: Ruby Arnold (True Dance)

3rd: Harlow Pike & Tahari Conrad (Larkin)

4th: Kira Reissner (Larkin), Lexi Bahena (DC 2), Desa Jankes (WFDC)

5th: Kate Monge (Larkin)

6th: Giselle Mourad (Larkin)

7th: Alexis Alvarez (Club Dance)

8th: Allie Plott (The Dance Centre)

Senior (Didn't get 7th-10th & didn't recognize 2nd):

1st: Erik Barker & Laci Bloss (Larkin)!

3rd: Claire Monge (Larkin)

4th: Matissa Conrad (Larkin)

5th: Hayley Marshall (True Dance) & Brynn Kostka (Larkin)

6th: Kellan Cragg (Larkin)

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LARKIN DANCE STUDIO RESULTS AT RADIX MN:

Etta Mundhal- Breathe: 1st in Rookie solo

Remington Poquette- My Little Angel: 4th in Rookie Solo

Hazel Whalstrand- I'm Available: 5th in Rookie Solo

Maisy Anderson- Razzle Dazzle: 5th in Rookie Solo

Aeliana O Brien - Jazz Baby: 7th in Rookie Solo

Tenlee Jykras - Halleluiah: 8th in Rookie Solo

Lydia Tracy - I Enjoy Being A Girl: 8th in Rookie Solo

Audrey Allen - Roxie : 9th in Rookie Solo

Sailor Stormoen - Mia: 1st in Mini Solo

Harper Kill - Fly Away: 2nd in Mini Solo

Morgan Martens- The Typewriter: 6th in Mini Solo

Claire Hansen - All That Jazz: 7th in Mini Solo

Stella Ames - Keep You Safe: 10th in Mini Solo

Palmer Peltier- All Shook Up: 4th in Junior Solo

Jayla Xiong - Everything Must Change: 4th in Junior Solo

Mila Ayshford - Manuvering: 5th in Junior Solo

Truett Ziemke- Twilight Elegy: 10th in Junior Solo

Ava Ruthmond - I Feel You: 2nd in Teen Solo

Kelsie Jacobson- Loud Silence: 3rd in Teen Solo

Finley Ashfield- All Slipping Away: 6th in Teen Solo

Giselle Mourad - Lover Please Stay: 8th in Teen Solo

Matissa Conrad- Swan Song: 3rd in Senior Solo

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Rating dancer siblings' names purely based on how well I think they go together

No one please get offended, I'm just a big name nerd and love to analyse this type of stuff

Savannah & Scarlett - 11/10 simply lovely, similar but still different

Mackenzie, Kameron & Katie - 10/10 They have K A E as like a common denominator. I like that you can divide them into twos, like Kameron and Katie start with a K, Katie and Mackenzie end in -ie, Kameron and Mackenzie have an M. Also I think all 3 are very equally normal names

Ellary Day & Sylvie Win - 10/10 I'm Szyndlar biased but I just love the idea of similar structure but completely different names. Also how cute is Win2Day

Isabella & Diana - 10/10 there's just enough regal vibes in both names. I also like that they are very different but the ending is the same

Brielle, Brooklyn & Kira - 9/10 I think the twins' name match is literally perfect - the use of same consonants but different vowels (or vice versa) is a phenomenon I love, it makes name match and differ at the same time. I think Kira is fine with them, different vibes but the R is there

Bristyn, Berkeley & Blakelyn - 8/10 I mean just look at them. I'm only taking points off because Blakelyn is so much softer than Bristyn and Berkeley

Navy & Lola - 7/10 I don't think there is anything particularly matching in these names, but they're both pretty simple but not overused names

Ellie, Tatum & Paisley - 7/10 because they are very different, but I appreciate that they decided to go for completely different names for each kids. I think with 3+ kids you either match all or none

Matissa, Tahari & Matinly - 5/10 I think Matissa and Matinly are too similar, but I think Tahari goes nicely with both. They've got a nice vowel thing going on

Stella & Winter - 3/10 I don't see a connection but they're not from completely different planets

Shannon, Blake & Meaghan - 2/10 I don't know how Shannon got here, Meaghan is an oddly hard spelling in this context, I guess Blake just is

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Larkin Results Nov. 3-5

Nuvo Omaha:

NUbie Solos:

1st: Hallee Anderson

Mini Solos:

2nd: Maylin Munos

3rd: Lexie Charnstrom (2-Way Tie)

5th: Harper Kill

9th: Matinly Conrad

10th: Ginny Hickenbotham-Westeren

Didn't Place: Brooklyn Williams

Junior Solos:

1st: Bella Charnstrom (Standing Alone!)

3rd: Finley Ashfield

4th: Jemma Eisenbrei

5th: Tillie Kuhl

10th: Hazel Semans (4-Way Tie)

Teen Solos:

1st: Laci Bloss (Standing Alone!)

2nd: Ava Rothmund (2-Way Tie)

3rd: Harlow Pike (2-Way Tie)

4th: Daphnie Braun (2-Way Tie)

5th: Brynn Kostka, Matissa Conrad (3-Way Tie)

6th: Savannah Werner (3-Way Tie)

7th: Ava McCraine (2-Way Tie)

Didn't Place: Amaiya Sanchez

Senior Solos:

1st: Kenzie Karges (2-Way Tie)

24/7 Chicago

Mini Solos:

1st: Savannah Jackson (Standing Alone!)

2nd: Neala Murphy (Standing Alone!)

4th: Grace Sullivan, Giuliana Shea (2-Way Tie)

5th: Chase Lang

6th: Evie McCune-Barrett (2-Way Tie)

9th: Emilia Padesky (4-Way Tie)

Junior Solos:

3rd: Hailey Turnbull, Mila Ayshford (3-Way Tie)

4th: Kate Monge (2-Way Tie)

6th: Sienna Powers (5-Way Tie)

Teen Solos:

1st: Claire Monge (Standing Alone!)

3rd: Olivia Shelton (5-Way Tie)

6th: Giselle Mourad (4-Way Tie)

9th: Laura Yeh, Tahari Conrad (5-Way Tie)

Didn't Place: Sarah St. Cyr

Senior Solos:

1st: Caleb Abea (2-Way Tie)

2nd: Erik Barker (2-Way Tie)

3rd: Isabella Jarvis (3-Way-Tie)

4th: Kiera Redpath (3-Way Tie)

5th: Alexis Adair (4-Way Tie)

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Miniforms – Vitrine Kramer https://www.design-kiste.de/hersteller/miniforms/vitrine-kramer-2/

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(via A Greek Summer Hit Fills A Generation With Hope : NPR)

Until last year, few Greeks had heard of Marina Satti.

The architecture student-turned-classically-trained singer had performed in musicals and ancient Greek plays, but her music career was largely under the radar. She played what she calls "blender" music — a combination of jazz, funk and rock — with musician friends at home.

"I grew up influenced by Björk and Moderat and the Berlin electronic scene," Satti says. "And then, while I was studying at the Berklee College of Music, I looked to my roots."

Satti's father, a doctor, is from Sudan. Her mother, a chemical engineer, is from the Greek island of Crete. So she grew up biracial in a largely homogeneous Greece.

"I was afraid that I would stick out, 'cause I'm a little darker in the skin," she says. "And sometimes, I remember myself being shy, and I remember I didn't want my dad to come and pick me up from the school."

At Berklee, she immersed herself in traditional Arabic and Greek music and realized the treasure of her heritage.

"What I loved about the States was that there, you can co-exist with something, someone, who is different than you," Satti says. "It's a state of mind I got into there that I carried back with me to Greece."

When she returned home to Athens, she incorporated Greek and Arabic folk music into her jam sessions with friends.

Then, one night last year, after a pasta dinner at her apartment, they recorded a cover of "Koupes," an old Greek rembetiko song, and uploaded it to YouTube. It went viral.

"YouTube can be a fair playing field for artists," she says. "Your music is there, it's free; whoever wants to listen to it can, and whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. I'm happy it was someone's choice to listen to this song."

So this summer, Satti offered an original song, "Mantissa" ("Seer"). She wrote the music and a friend wrote the lyrics.

"The whole song is about a fortune teller, basically, but it has its roots in ancient mythology, like Pythia," Satti says. (In Greek mythology, Pythia is the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.) "Every verse is like an oracle: vague enough to be open for interpretation, like Pythia's predictions. So, to me, it is a love song — but I like the fact that it doesn't focus on the human pain; it's not about being self-absorbed or self-pitying."

The chorus is about taking charge, about spreading your wings and flying through winds and storms to find what you need.

"That's the story of my life," Satti says. "My dad had to come to Greece from Sudan to study and be who he is. And, me, I had to go to the States and embrace who I really am."

"So," she says, "it's like a love song to yourself."

Mantissa was released along with a music video featuring Satti and a posse of girlfriends dancing, flash mob-style, down Athinas, a street in Athens that's seen better days.

"It's one of my favorite streets," she says. "There are people from Pakistan and Arabs who live there and work there. There's a market or a bazaar. You can really see the Eastern influences, and then there's the graffiti — and, in this video, a bunch of girls in our jeans and our jumpsuits, dancing."

The video received more than 5 million views on YouTube in just a week. Fans made tribute videos. A male comedian in drag filmed a parody of it.

It also helped Satti, who describes herself as a D.I.Y. artist, get a deal with a record label in a country where the music industry, which hangs on to its aging stars, is hard to break into. She is signed to 314 Records.

"Mantissa" is the song of the summer in Greece: one of the most downloaded tracks and always on the radio. I hear it everywhere — in cafes, in taxis, on my balcony as my neighbors sing along while putting their washing on clotheslines to dry.

I meet a couple of thirtysomething statisticians dancing to "Mantissa" at a recent Satti concert at the gardens of the Athens Concert Hall. Savvas Giovanni and Giorgos Samaras sing the chorus so loudly they drown out the tweens next to them.

"I'm trying to remember the dance steps from the video," Samaras says, hopping from side to side. "I'm a really good dancer."

"I love this song," Giovanni says. "It puts me in such a good mood. It makes me forget my problems."

The song has especially resonated with young Greeks, who face a grim future as the economy has yet to recover from the debt crisis and austerity.

"There are so many miserable people in my age, and that's so bad," says Melina Chronopoulou, a 21-year-old university student in French literature. She's also one of Satti's backup dancers, and performed in the "Mantissa" video. "It's hard for many of us to just get out and enjoy being young. Many times, I wish I had been born in a different generation just so I could experience real optimism."

Chronopoulou says she appreciates "Mantissa" for its optimism.

"Greek songs usually talk about being hurt, and being in love, but in a really negative way," she says, "like suffering, and there is no hope anywhere. Not this song. It's full of hope."

Satti smiles a little when she considers that her runaway hit has lifted the spirits of other young Greeks.

"It's hard out there," she says, "but we are good at hope."

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Poem: Select the Right Relationship by Matissa Tissa

Matissa Tissa decided to polish her poetry writing knack before entering tertiary education. She began to write poetry in 2019 by using Wattpad as her platform to share a ton of musing poems.

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Yes, I know I haven’t properly been here in forever, but! Here are, in case anyone’s still around to see, some Eurhyi characters in some picrews. In order: Matissa, Sagrei, Deianna and Aella. 

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Larkin Solo Showbiz Results 2025

mini sapphire solo

9 - joey ames (let me entertain you)

8 - hailey laulainen (mermaid party)

7 - aria johnson (one dance)

6 - sora le (shake it off)

5 - oakley turk (think pink)

4 - elise wilson (the space in between)

3 - lily mccune-barrett (it's a small world)

2 - ari phelan (you are my sunshine)

1 - marvel grover (broadway baby)

petite sapphire solo

8 - pearl conway (star in your own life)

7 - cylie adams (miss thing)

2 - brielle shea (yesterday)

petite ruby solo

9 - daphne mikkelson (ponytail)

7 - lina freeman (make you feel my love)

petite diamond solo

10 - hazel montgomery (fields of gold)

9 - etta mundahl (breathe)

8 - lydia tracy (can the frog tap dance)

7 - remington poquette (falling in love)

5 - maisy anderson (you dream)

4 - tenlee jyrkas (hallelujah)

3 - audrey allen (roxie)

1 - hazel wahlstrand (if these wings could fly)

pre-junior sapphire solo

10 - emma le (dime)

7 - ava knox (glittering)

4 - haddie king (chicago, illinois)

pre-junior diamond solo

10 - charlotte tracy (imagine)

6 - hayden haider (to build a home)

4 - jade glyzinski (no limit)

3 - stella ames (big finish)

1 - hallee anderson (one dove)

junior diamond solo

10 - chase lang (scars)

9 - neala murphy (silent memory)

7 - morgan martens (the typewriter)

6 - harper kill (this bitter earth)

5 - lexie charnstrom (rewind)

4 - gigi shea (faun)

2 - savannah jackson (it's all noise)

pre-teen sapphire solo

2 - farrah dorow (to build a home)

pre-teen ruby solo

5 - allie lee (you are the reason)

pre-teen diamond solos

10 - malia scott (i love)

7 - mila ayshford (?)

6 - leah pribyl (?)

5 - bella charnstrom (black swan)

4 - tillie kuhl (?)

2 - vera souvannavong (the light)

1 - lilly anderson (maybe this time)

teen sapphire solos

9 - ava lucius (dreamer)

6 - gracie ketcham (gia)

3 - willow houghton (daybreak)

2 - ivy williams (whatever lola wants)

teen diamond solos

4 - daphnie braun (my reach)

2 - finley ashfield (that's life)

1 - kelsie jacobson (loud silence)

pre-senior sapphire solo

2 - andi laidig (spine)

pre-senior diamond solo

9 - matissa conrad (fragments)

8 - harlow pike (true romance)

7 - ava rothmund (i feel you)

3 - claire monge (acquired path)

2 - brynn kostka (quiet stillness)

1 - laci bloss (pure)

senior diamond solo

8 - ashley gutz (my funny valentine)

5 - erik barker (?)

3 - bella jarvis (?)

2 - caleb abea (?)

1 - keira redpath (all that jazz)

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[ponury-grajek]

Commission for @ratbefriender and her beautiful OC, Matissa ❤️

[obsessedwithlarkin]

WELL-KNOWN DANCERS COMPETING AT RADIX MINNEAPOLIS:

LARKIN DANCE STUDIO:

• Stella Ames - Keep You Safe

• Chloe Adams - Fierce

• Harper Kill- Fly Away

• Morgan Martens- The Typewriter

• Brooklyn Williams - Black Dress

• Charlotte Tracy - Imagine

• Sailor Stormoen- Mia

• Kinsley Lissick - I'm The Queen

• Claire Hansen - All That Jazz

• Jayla Xiong - Everything Must Change

• Kylie Roach- Charge It Please

• Mila Ashyford - Manuvering

• Palmer Peltier- All Shook Up

• Truett Ziemke- Twilight Elegy

• Matissa Conrad- Swan Song

• Aeliana O Brien - Jazz Baby

• Olivia Scholl - Baby Love

• Audrey Allen- Roxie

• Remington Poquette - My Little Angel

• Hazel Whalstrand- I'm Available

• Cosette Kuh - I'm A Lady

• Maisy Anderson- Razzle Dazzle

• Lydia Tracy - I Enjoy Being A Girl

• Tenlee Jykras - Halleluiah

• Sydney Anderson- Covergirl

• Etta Mundhal- Breathe

• Finley Ashfield- All Slipping Away

• Ava Rothmund - I Feel You

• Kelsie Jacobson- Loud Silence

• Giselle Mourad - Lover Please Stay

• Harlow Pike - Left Of You Now

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THE DANCE AWARDS LAS VEGAS RESULTS 2023

Judge’s Pick awards that didn’t place in the top 10 teen solos:

Julia Chavez - CLUB JP!

Zora Griffin Todd - CLUB JP!

Colby Rich - CLUB JP!

Kira Chan - ELEMENTS JP!

Olivia Shelton - LARKIN JP!

Issac Diaz - BOBBIE’S JP!

Ava Rothmund - LARKIN JP!

Maizie Dees - NEXT STEP JP!

Caroline McGowan - NEXT STEP JP!

Campbell Clark - NEXT STEP JP!

Brynn Kostka - LARKIN JP!

Ashley Gutz - LARKIN JP!

Julia Bailey - EXPRESSENZ JP!

Kieran Holmes - THE DANCE KOLLECTIVE JP!

Isabel Zorrilla - DANCEOLOGY JP!

Kendall Jundt - DANCEOLOGY JP!

Lynsey Foertsch - EXPRESSENZ JP!

Jenna Jarboe - EXPRESSENZ JP!

Camryn O’Maley - EXPRESSENZ JP!

Jayden Small - ELITE DANCE JP!

Kennedy Blazek - THE ROCK JP!

Kynlee Schultheis - SOUTH TULSA JP!

Dani O’Brien - LEVEL JP!

Lyla Lee - DANCEOLOGY JP!

Amaya Weeks - CLUB JP!

Makaia Roux - DANCEOLOGY JP!

Alyssa Anderson - BUNKER JP!

Matissa Conrad - LARKIN JP!

Sophia Luu - REVOLUTION JP!

Kennedy Brandon - THE COMPANY SPACE JP!

AvaRose Campbell - THE COMPANY SPACE JP!