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Show This world needs more ballroom dance AlllO VWX XV u;oWalto. Pleasant Grove's kids. kids. Not all of were as others and some of thel ; fuss about dancing butJ'. elementary school J1'; learned how to do uS-ballroom uS-ballroom dancing and ifo '5 child a certain amount of when dance opportunii;: after that. When I go to a dance at h or school now-a-days J-' boys lined up, trying t087: courage to ask a girl t think about that and tM'- Stephanie Walker, Pleasant Grove's Strawberry Days Queen and an alumnus of PGHS. She attends SUSC and has danced for many years. She did a marvelous job. Don Zimmerman of the Dance Factory brought some of his dancers to perform a number with him. He is such a professional and his dancers are the result of his expert teaching. One of the best things about the Dance Concert is the quickness with which one troupe gets off and another onto the stage and so no long lapses occur. p.g. blab By MARCK1XA WALKER A packed house enjoyed a very entertaining Dance Concert at Pleasant Grove High School last Friday night and we were among the packees because our daughter was one of the dancers. Getting to the concert did not come easy. That same night was the ward dinner dance in which both parents were intensely involved. This annual affair is one of our favorites and the steak dinner is always wonderful. We prayed we'd be able to eat most of it before we filled our responsibility as parents and went to the dance concert.. The dinner was good and even though we had to forfeit the dessert by our early departure, the dinner to that point was well worth the money and my waistline came out the winner without the dessert. The PGHS Dance Concert is always a nice program and it must be said that this year it was even better than before. The hundreds of paying customers certainly got more than their money's worth at this show. The success of this program is due mostly to the efforts of Elaine Hansen, faculty member at the school, who gives it her best shot and her enthusiasm infects the dancers, press, and everyone. During the show I leaned over to my husband and said that I wished they had had dance classes in high school for us. Actually, we did have a bit of modern dance during one quarter of gym when I was a junior. We got to purchase leotards and it was lots of fun. We didn't get to do anything with it, however, and a Dance Concert was unheard of. Elaine teaches Orchesis which is the advanced students, intermediate have been a little easier t0 ".S you really knew how todan It is almost like everyonf and kids, expect that gets old enough to automatically knows how? : and it just ain't so. I get just a trifle irritated,, hear parents rant and raveh the junior high has a fe during the year and (J? darling might actually be tendance. ten-dance. When are thev learn? Wen are they i ft the confidence they need1 Si When we were in junior had night dances at leasu i: month. The ward had them?1 week after Mutual. This to harm our psyches and i tc, s believe it helped us to learnt act around the opposite sex certainly gave us confide! ourselves to know how to dan- to practice it with people wet trust. End of lecture! Back to the beginning, the os Concert was one nice show.Alli who participated deserve a a, the back for' their dedication "v their determination. Shall we dance? When Elaine was giving her comments she mentioned how happy she was that the program had boys on it this year and that they had accepted the taunts of other guys in order to learn the ballroom dance numbers. In the beginning, Terry Tucker used to have a hard time trying to get enough boys to try out for the Cloggers West so that there were enough partners for the girls. Now that the Cloggers have had such success, he probably does not have recruiting problems any more. Perhaps that will happen with the ballroom dance team. If there is one thing this old world needs it is kids who know how to do ballroom dancing. They need to know there is more to life than rock and the bearhug. Back in the olden days when I was just a kid and before parents cried and boobed every time boys and girls talked to each other before the age of 16, we had ballroom dancing in school. It began when we were in the fourth grade. We were taught the waltz, foxtrot, polka, two step, etc. and we did it to pretty music. Everyone learned, even the jocks and runny-nosed, shy and beginning dance. She also teaches the ballroom dance team and this is where I was most astounded. There were only three ballroom dance numbers, unless you count the social dance scene from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" which was done by the original cast plus one. Kyle Johnson and Julie Brown did a lovely dance early on in the program, the entire ballroom dance team did a number just before intermission in-termission but the one that took my breath away was near the end of the show and featured Brent Mills and Marcelle Brashear. Their dance was gorgeous and expertly executed. They looked more like the BYU ballroom dance team than Pleasant Grove High School. Another special number on the program was the appearance of |
