The holiday season was very busy for the Wildcat Dancers Dance Team, Elite Dance Team, RPB Dancers, Disney Performance Team, and Michele Blecher, master teacher and dance department director.
The dancers and Blecher hosted this year’s annual toy drive for Children & Family Services. The participation from RPBHS made this a year to remember. The drive collected 20 boxes filled with toys for the drive.
On Thursday, Dec. 9, the Wildcat Dancers Dance Team, Elite Dance Team, Disney Performance Team and RPB Dancers performed for the first time in two years with their midterm exam show, “Dance Again,” choreographed by Blecher. A total of 24 different dance routines were included in the dance styles of ballet, jazz, hip-hop, musical theater, country, contemporary and ethnic.
The highlight of the show was the surprise engagement of RPBHS guidance counselor Gary Harmon to his fiancé Anna. The Wildcat Dancers Dance Team danced to “Marry Me,” and at the end of the dance routine, the dancers flipped over signs that spelled out, “Marry Me, Anna?” There was not a dry eye in the audience.
On Sunday, Dec. 12, Blecher choreographed another show for a performance at Disney Springs. She selected 13 lucky dancers to be a part of the Disney Performance Team. The Disney Imagination Campus leaders were so impressed by the performance that they cheered as loudly as the audience. The Disney team was impressed that people stopped, filled the entire seating area and stood behind the filled seating area to view the dancers’ performance.
