LDB 2025
Viral Moments and Trends
Try Not to Laugh
Finish the Lyrics
Team Challenge
100
What was the 2025 recital?
100
What were we "really holding space for" this year?
The lyrics of "Defying Gravity"
100
Read this out loud to an adult (no smiling or laughing)
"Bro, 2025 was actually lit like so lit because everything was lowkey chaotic but still so fire.
Like the internet was tweaking, the vibes were never Ohio, every week felt like main character energy for no reason.
Anyway I’m locked in for 2026, no NPC behavior, no mid moments, just straight slay. And that’s on God.”
Did you do it?
100
And if you'd never come for me,
____________________________,
I swore my loyalty to me, myself and I
Right before you lit my sky
"I might've drowned in the melancholy"
100
Choose a teammate to give a 30 second hype speech to your group. If they stop talking for more than 3 seconds at any given time, you don't win the challenge.
Time's up!
200
Who were the narrator voices for Ugly Duckling this year?
Ada and Thalia
200
Two high-up members of a company got caught at the wrong place and wrong time at a ____________ concert this Summer.
Coldplay
200
Question and answer:
Each team member needs to ask another member of their team a random question. The responder can only say one word, and the word cannot be related to the question.
Everyone has to have a turn to ask a question and answer a question.
No smiling or laughing
How'd we do?!
200
"Made it out alive, but I think I lost it,
Said that I was fine, said it from my coffin,
_________________________________,
That's my life, that's my life"
"Remember how I died, when you started walking
200
As a team, silently line yourselves up in birthday order (youngest to oldest).
You have 2 minutes.
Time's up!
300
Who were the Summer 2025 Interns and Trainees?
6 people total
Emily, Ada, Naima, Hannah, Claire, Fionna
300
Name 4 Italian Brainrot characters
Ballerina Cappuccina, Tung Tung Tung Sahur, Bombardiro Crocodilo, Chimpanzini Bananini, Lirili Larila, Tralalero Tralala
300
Pick one member of the team to be the noise-maker. The noise-maker will close their eyes. One at a time, the rest of the team members will make a sound (ex: tapping your nails on the floor, knocking something against the barres). After the sound is made, the noise-maker has to try to remake that sound as accurately as possible without laughing.
No one on the team can smile or laugh.
Did you do it?!
300
Oh, I'm done hidin', now I'm shinin'
Like I'm born to be
"________________________"
That's who we're born to be
"Oh, our time, no fears, no lies"
300
Pick one member of your team to do a viral dance from 2025. You have to guess what dance/song it is.
Did you get it?!
400
What were the themes for each of the 5 weeks of summer programs?
Summer Kick-Off
Technique Week
Little kids (petite performers)
Adv Intensive
Summer Send Off
400
Name 3 ways to tell a Labubu from a Lafufu
check the QR code on the tag,
look for exactly nine sharp teeth,
note the pale peach/tan skin tone,
see the bent ear,
a shiny ridge in the eyes,
and a stamp on the foot
400
Funny face challenge:
One person is the noise-maker.
Each member of the team will (one at a time) make a crazy face. The noise-maker has to copy that face and make a noise that would go with that face.
No one can smile or laugh.
Did you do it?!
400
Abracadabra, abracadabra
Abracadabra, abracadabra
"__________________,_______________"
Abracadabra, abracadabra
"Feel the beat under your feet, the floor's on fire"
400
One-Word Story
Time: 90 seconds
Teams tell a story one word at a time, going in order.
Rules:
No planning
No laughing
If someone hesitates for more than a few seconds, everyone on the team has to realistically moo like a cow
How'd we do?
500
Including the finale, how many dances were in the tap/jazz/contemp section of the recital in 2025?
12
Contemp 2 - Fire
Beg Tap - Dancing in the Dark
Contemp 1 - Riptide
Kat's Solo - When We Were Young
Foundational Jazz -Seven Nation Army
Int Jazz - Bloody Mary
Adv Tap - Boogie Wonderland
Beg Jazz - Sunshine
Int Tap - Just Like Fire
Foundational Tap - Someone to You
Adv Jazz - Bad Guy
Finale - There She Goes by The La’s (Codeko Remix)
500
A haunted doll went on a multi-city tour across the U.S., was accused of orchestrating the escape of 10 inmates from an Orleans Parish jail, a fire that decimated a plantation south of Baton Rouge, and the death of one of the doll's handlers. What is the doll's name?
Annabelle
500
Lemon challenge:
2 members of your team must each eat a lemon slice. All facial expressions are allowed BESIDES smiling.
No laughing or smiling.
How'd you do?!
500
I would like a ring, I would like a ring
"_____________________________"
I would like a big and shiny diamond
That I could wave around and talk and talk about it
"I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger"
500
The Impossible Count
Time: 90 seconds
Whole team must count from 1 to 30 out loud.
Rules:
Only one person can say a number at a time
No assigned order
No planning
If two people speak at once → back to 1
Did you get all the way to 20?!