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|image = File:Avery Gay 2024.jpg
|image = File:Avery Gay 2024.jpg
|gender = Female
|gender = Female
|age = 19
|age = {{age|2004|05|25}}
|birthdate = May 25, 2004
|birthdate = May 25, 2004
|nationality = American
|nationality = American
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|eye color = Brown
|eye color = Brown
|hair color = Blonde
|hair color = Blonde
|school grade = High School Class of 2022 <br> College Class of 2026
|school grade = High School Class of 2022 <br> College Class of 2026 (University of Arizona)
|profession = Dancer <br> Student
|profession = Dancer <br> Student
|affiliations = World of Dance <br> Five Dancewear
|affiliations = World of Dance <br> Five Dancewear
|dance studios = Centerstage Dance Studio <br> Master Ballet Academy <br> Club Dance Studio <br> University of Arizona School of Dance
|dance studios = Centerstage Dance Studio <br> Master Ballet Academy <br> Club Dance Studio <br> University of Arizona School of Dance<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/arizonaalumni/p/C7R8zQdv2Mb/?img_index=3 UoA IG Avery Gay SYTYCD]</ref>
|titles = ''see below''
|titles = ''see below''
|parents = Elizabeth Gay (mother) <br> Lowery Gay (father)
|parents = Elizabeth Gay (mother) <br> Lowery Gay (father)
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}}'''Avery Elizabeth Gay''' (born on May 25, 2004) is a dancer from Arizona. Avery trained and competed with several studios: Master Ballet Academy (where she competed with Limitless, the competitive team at Master Ballet), Club Dance Studio and Centerstage Dance Studio. Currently, she trains at the University of Arizona School of Dance.
}}'''Avery Elizabeth Gay''' (born on May 25, 2004) is a dancer from Arizona. Avery trained and competed with several studios: Master Ballet Academy (where she competed with Limitless, the competitive team at Master Ballet), Club Dance Studio and Centerstage Dance Studio. Currently, she trains at the University of Arizona School of Dance.


In 2013, Avery auditioned for Disney Channel's ''Make Your Mark'', but lost to AKSquared, a group featuring [[Kalani Hilliker]]. In 2016, Avery auditioned for ''So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation'' alongside fellow young dancers and colleagues [[Ava Cota]], [[Bostyn Brown]], [[Tate McRae]], [[Gavin Morales]], and more. She got the Grishko Model Search Award at Youth America Grand Prix 2016 in New York.<ref>[https://yagp.org/yagp-2016-new-york-ny-winners/ YaGP Winners NV 2016]</ref> In 2018, she competed in season two of ''World of Dance'' alongside her partner Marcus Sarjeant.
Avery started dancing at the age of three. In 2013, Avery auditioned for Disney Channel's ''Make Your Mark'', but lost to AKSquared, a group featuring [[Kalani Hilliker]]. In 2016, Avery auditioned for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYUoBYkHPvM ''So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation''] alongside fellow young dancers and colleagues [[Ava Cota]], [[Bostyn Brown]], [[Tate McRae]], [[Gavin Morales]], and more. At her age of 13 she got featured on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw3kYaFhTfQ very first Episode of Born On Pointe]. In 2018, she competed in season two of ''World of Dance'' alongside her partner Marcus Sarjeant. - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc4fLbYYkLA Qualifiers], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orzHk8SpmlA The Duels], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eSE0zQYytE The Cut]. Avery once tried out for Season 13 of SYTYCD, but didn't make the cut. Recently, Avery has [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsUbmfE6slQ participated in SYTYCD Season 18]. But she [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eD0hpQR2hA found in Maksim Chmerkovskiy a tough judge] -''"She has everything, but if she choose not to use it.."'' -  and didn't made it in the top 5, while Allison Holker and [[JoJo Siwa]] were amazed by her technical skills - ''"No one here could do what she just did"'' (Allison).- Ohoh! Another dance star who will conquer the world because a judge wasn't nice to her (see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD18LEpDcK4 "You're Not Good Enough" - Lindsey Stirling's Journey], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jge_S2i8Y4U Lindsey Looks Back On Her Time On ''America's Got Talent 2010''], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBQqh_l2D9Q First Dance Lesson 2011], [https://youtu.be/QVUzftI0rMM?t=115 Runner-up on DWTS with Mark Ballas 2017] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJbT-8KiLGQ Winner Jordan Fisher & Lindsay Arnold] set up the show record by nine perfect scores - [[Lindsay Arnold]]), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KDWTw41BxU Kashmir] & [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvBCYGHZuMk Carol of the Bells - Lollapalooza Paris 2023], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWwfyzX2OeM Lindsey's repost 2024]).


==Dances==
==Dances==
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|The Dance Awards<br />(Las Vegas)
|The Dance Awards<br />(Las Vegas)
|Best Dancer
|Performance as Junior Best Dancer
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| rowspan="2" |2019
| rowspan="2" |2019
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| rowspan="6" |2021
| rowspan="6" |2021
|Goodbye
|Goodbye
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|Contemporary
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|The Dance Awards<br />(Las Vegas)
|The Dance Awards<br />(Las Vegas)
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|Top 10
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|-
|Haxun
|Haxun
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|The Dance Awards<br />(Las Vegas)
|The Dance Awards<br />(Las Vegas)
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|8<sup>th</sup> in Senior Solos
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|2022
|What is Love
|Contemporary
|Self choreographed
|NUVO (Phoenix)
|3<sup>rd</sup> in Senior Solos
|}
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! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Year
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Year
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Dance Name
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Dance Name
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Choreographer(s)
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Choreographer
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |City
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |City
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Place Awards
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Place Awards
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|YAGP Finals (Tampa)
|YAGP Finals (Tampa)
|Gold Medal
|Gold Medal
|}
===Groups===
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|-
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Year
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Dance Name
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Dance Style
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Choreographer
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Other Dancers
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Competition
! style="background:#f2c8e0;" |Place Awards
|-
|2016
|Chasing cars
|Contemporary
|Harrison Stevenson
|[[Reina Stamm]]<br />Ava Maskin<br />Taylor Ponsness<br />Breckin Rosciszewski
|24/7 (Phoenix)
|3<sup>rd</sup> in Mini Groups
|-
|2018
|Disintegrated
|Contemporary
|Chelsea Jennings
|[[Bostyn Brown]]<br />[[Brooke Judge]]<br />[[Carlee Schield]]<br />[[Jenna Valenzuela]]
|The Dance Awards (Las Vegas)
|4<sup>th</sup> in Teen Groups
|-
| rowspan="3" |2019
|Noir
|Ballet
|Josie Walsh
|[[Gavin Morales]]<br />[[Avery Stamm]]<br />[[Reina Stamm]]<br />Brian Hopper
|NUVO (Phoenix)
|didn't place
|-
|Bellyache
|Jazz
|Danny Lawn
|[[Alexis Adair]]<br />[[Brooklin Cooley]]<br />[[Summer O'Haver]]<br />[[Carlee Schield]]<br />[[Brooke Judge]]<br />[[Jenna Valenzuela]]
|Radix (Phoenix)
|2<sup>nd</sup> in Teen Groups
|-
|Hanging by a thread
|Contemporary
|Danny Lawn
|[[Bostyn Brown]]<br />[[Brooke Judge]]<br />[[Reina Stamm]]<br />[[Avery Stamm]]<br />[[Carlee Schield]]<br />[[Jenna Valenzuela]]<br />[[Chevelle Heller]]<br />[[Jaycee Wilkins]]
|24/7 (Phoenix)
|1<sup>st</sup> in Teen Groups
|-
| rowspan="5" |2020
|Pump
|Ballroom
|Erica Marr
|Many Dancers
|Jump (Phoenix)
|2<sup>nd</sup> in Teen Extended Lines
|-
|Both Sides Now
|Contemporary
|Lauren Adams
|[[Bostyn Brown]]<br />Milla Fabirkiewicz<br />[[Paige Kracht]]<br />[[Summer O'Haver]]<br />[[Brooklin Cooley]]<br />[[Jenna Valenzuela]]<br />[[Jaycee Wilkins]]<br />Jenn Gamma
|Jump (Phoenix)
|1<sup>st</sup> in Teen Lines
|-
|Traffic
|Contemporary
|Unknown Choreographer
|[[Jaycee Wilkins]]<br />[[Jenna Valenzuela]]<br />Cienna Bethea<br />[[Brooke Judge]]
|Jump (Phoenix)
|didn't place
|-
|Lead and I'll Follow
|Specialty
|Jason Parson
|[[Jaycee Wilkins]]<br />[[Brooklin Cooley]]<br />[[Bostyn Brown]]<br />[[Brooke Judge]]
|Jump (Phoenix)
|3<sup>rd</sup> in Teen Groups
|-
|This year's love
|Lyrical
|Danny Lawn
|[[Bostyn Brown]]<br />[[Brooke Judge]]<br />[[Jenna Valenzuela]]<br />[[Brooklin Cooley]]<br />[[Paige Kracht]]<br />[[Alexis Adair]]<br />[[Jaycee Wilkins]]
|Jump (Phoenix)
|didn't place
|-
| rowspan="3" |2021
|Both Sides Now
|Contemporary
|Lauren Adams
|[[Bostyn Brown]]<br />[[Brooke Judge]]<br />[[Alexis Adair]]<br />[[Brooklin Cooley]]<br />[[Summer O'Haver]]<br />[[Jaycee Wilkins]]<br />[[Reina Stamm]]<br />Imani Frazier<br />[[Sara Allen]]<br />Jenn Gamma
|24/7 (Glendale)
|didn't place
|-
|Paquita
|Ballet
|Lea McKinley
|[[Alexis Adair]]<br />[[Reina Stamm]]<br />[[Avery Stamm]]<br />Imani Frazier<br />Jenn Gamma<br />[[Sara Allen]]
|Jump (Phoenix)
|
|-
|Slave for you
|Ballroom
|Erica Marr
|[[Alexis Adair]]<br />[[Brooklin Cooley]]<br />[[Summer O'Haver]]<br />[[Bostyn Brown]]<br />[[Brooke Judge]]<br />[[Eleda Dickenson]]<br />Bailey LaMagdelaine<br />[[Avery Stamm]]<br />[[Reina Stamm]]<br />[[Jaycee Wilkins]]<br />Jenn Gamma<br />Hailey Jimenez<br />Imani Frazier<br />Maia Rogers<br />[[Emma Harris]]<br />Jordan Goldberg<br />Kylie Tollefson<br />[[Daylyn Lucky]]
|NUVO (Phoenix)
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |2022
|No Solace
|Contemporary
|Nick Meola
|[[Bella Klassen]]<br />[[Brooklin Cooley]]<br />[[Paige Kracht]]<br />[[Summer O'Haver]]<br />[[Brooke Judge]]<br />[[Sara Allen]]<br />[[Chloe Slone]]<br />Kate Kingsley
|NYCDA (Phoenix)
|
|-
|And So It Is
|Lyrical
|
|[[Bella Klassen]]<br />[[Brooke Judge]]<br />[[Brooklin Cooley]]<br />[[Summer O'Haver]]<br />[[Paige Kracht]]<br />[[Sara Allen]]<br />[[Colby Rich]]<br />[[Amaya Weeks]]
|Jump (Provo)
|
|-
|Submergence
|Contemporary
|
|
|Jump (Phoenix)
|
|-
|Pretty Girls
|Jazz
|Danny Lawn
|
|NUVO (Phoenix)
|
|}
|}


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*National Junior Female Best Dancer 2017
*National Junior Female Best Dancer 2017


==Awards and Nominations==
==Accolades, Awards and Nominations==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
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!Refs
!Refs
|-
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|2015
|rowspan="2"|2015
|The Dance Awards - Las Vegas
|The Dance Awards - Las Vegas
|Mini Best Dancer
|Mini Female Best Dancer
|Avery Gay
|Avery Gay
| style="background:lightgreen;" |Won
| style="background:lightgreen;" |Won
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref>[https://thedanceawards.com/hall-of-fame/mini-female The Dance Awards Hall of Fame Mini]</ref>
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref>[https://thedanceawards.com/hall-of-fame/mini-female The Dance Awards Hall of Fame Mini]</ref>
|-
|YAGP Nationals - New York
|Female Pre-Competitive Age Division
|Avery Gay
| style="background:#bf8970;" |Bronze
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref>[https://yagp.org/2015-yagp-new-york-city-finals-winners/ YAGP Nationals - New York 2015]</ref>
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2016
|rowspan="2"| Youth Grand Prix America (YGPA) Nationals - New York
|Grishko Model Search Award
|Avery Gay
| style="background:lightgreen;" |Won
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref>[https://yagp.org/yagp-2016-new-york-ny-winners/ YaGP Winners NV 2016]</ref>
|-
|Hope Award (Best in Ballet and Contemporary 2015-16)
|Avery Gay
| style="background:lightgreen;" |Won
| style="text-align:center;" | <ref>[https://www.facebook.com/YouthAmericaGrandPrix/photos/avery-gay-11-hope-award/10153870100693407/?_rdr YaGP Winners NV 2016]</ref>
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" |2017
| rowspan="2" |2017
|YAGP Nationals - New York
|YAGP Nationals - New York
|Youth Grand Prix America
|Youth Grand Prix America - <br>Pas de Deux & Ensembles
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQYfp2sLLY Avery Gay & Antonio Casalinho Copellia]
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQYfp2sLLY Avery Gay & Antonio Casalinho Copellia]
| style="background:#DAA520;" |Gold
| style="background:#DAA520;" |Gold
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|-
|The Dance Awards - Las Vegas
|The Dance Awards - Las Vegas
|Junior Best Dancer  
|Junior Female Best Dancer  
|Avery Gay
|Avery Gay
| style="background:lightgreen;" |Won
| style="background:lightgreen;" |Won
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|Herself
|Herself
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|-
|2024
|''So You Think You Can Dance''
|Herself
|}
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[[Avery Gay/Gallery]]
[[Avery Gay/Gallery]]


==Reference==
==References==
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