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The 2026 Super Bowl halftime show was historic in many ways, including being the first halftime performance sung primarily in Spanish.

And amid the hundreds of dancers swirling around Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga were five Southern California children who had trained, auditioned and rehearsed for thousands of hours in anticipation of a moment just like this.

“It was amazing,” said 10-year-old Eden Roberts from Anaheim Hills. “When I was waiting for my part, I was a little bit nervous, but mostly excited. When I got on the stage and I started dancing, all the nerves went away and I was just so excited to be there.”

Roberts got the opportunity to audition for the halftime show through her agent, but had no idea it was for the Super Bowl until she got the part. That was the case for all the kids, including Miyyah Barajas from Whittier, who said this was her first professional audition.

“I just felt like I was in a dream, like I wasn’t actually there,” Barajas said about being on stage. “But when I got off stage, I just realized it was real and it was so cool.”

One of the most impactful things to her about the show, Barajas said, was being able to learn more about her Mexican culture and speak Spanish.

“I never get to talk to a lot of people in Spanish and I love talking in Spanish,” she said. “I learned that we could all be friends, but the main thing that I really learned from the bottom of my heart is that we should all be united.”

This sentiment was also true for performer Stephanie Stevenson. Stevenson owns her own salsa dance studio in North Hollywood and performed alongside her 10-year-old daughter, Jade San Pedro, during the show. Stevenson received an invitation to audition and was asked on her way out if she had a daughter who danced salsa.

“A few weeks later, we found out that we both got the job,” she said. “I was shocked, but even more shocked when I found out that she (San Pedro) was going to be dancing with Bad Bunny.”

This was San Pedro’s first audition and professional gig – and she got the coveted part of dancing salsa with Bad Bunny.

Bad Bunny’s show, Stevenson said, really highlighted the Latin family and being up on stage with her daughter felt like “what we do everyday.”

“We actually all dance together at the parties,” she said. “We embrace our culture like that and I, personally, do it in my dance studio at all my events. So it is something special when you get invited to the biggest platform in the world to perform, but in its most authentic way, I get to do it with my daughter in the way I already do.”

While the experience was incredible, Stevenson said. the three weeks of rehearsals prior to the show were “brutal.” Stevenson, along with the other adult performers, rehearsed eight to nine hours per day for three weeks, with only one day off. The children did three hours of school on set each morning before rehearsing for four to five hours, getting one day off each week.

And while this schedule was an adjustment for some, others, like 10-year-old Bronson Arrivillaga, were used to it. Arrivillaga is home schooled and trains for about 20 hours per week. He also goes on about four or five auditions per week.

Arrivillaga’s mother, Katlyn Arrivillaga, said that once she and her husband saw how talented both Bronson and his sister are, they decided to move to Los Angeles from Indiana to help make their dreams come true.

“We fell in love with LA,” Katlyn Arrivillaga said. “There is so much to learn through singing, voice over, acting, dancing and just in general from the people you work with. We wanted them to get really good training. It’s really cool to see them grow and that would never have happened in the Midwest.”

Some may have been nervous performing in front of hundreds of thousands of people at the Super Bowl — and millions more watching on television — on a stage next to major pop artists like Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga. But these kids were just having fun doing the thing they love most in the world – dancing.

“I was so excited to perform,” said 11-year-old Mila Cayetano from Mission Hills. “I enjoy dancing because it brings me a lot of joy. I get to express how I feel through how I dance.”

And just because the Super Bowl is over, these kids are not done working. Both Cayetano and Roberts, for example, are on the Los Angeles Kid Clippers dance team and performed during the NBA All Star Weekend in front of celebrities like Duchess of Sussex Megan Markle and President Barack Obama. Arrivillaga has a few projects being released soon, Barajas is continuing to audition and train and San Pedro is being signed with an agency.

Nevertheless, they will remember the 2026 Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime show for the rest of their lives.

“It was such a blessing and an honor to be able to be there,” Roberts said. “It was just amazing to do what I love and share it with the world.”

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