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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Dance academy doubles the fun with two spring shows
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Sisters Dance Academy
students took fans on a musi-
cal journey down through the
ages and back for the spring
recital with 150 dancers aged
3 to 18, performing ballet, tap,
hip-hop and contemporary
dance on Saturday afternoon
and evening in the Sisters
High School Auditorium.
This was the first time
Sisters Dance Academy
offered two showtimes for a
recital.
“Dancing Through Time”
was the theme for this year’s
recital, and each performance
represented an era of time.
“We are really excited to
have grown to the point to
be able to have two perfor-
mances,” said Lonnie Liddell,
director of Sisters Dance
Academy.
Along with two shows
there were two raffles and
two bake sales. All dona-
tions benefitted Sisters Dance
Academy’s s ch o l ars h i p
program.
The academy’s choreog-
raphers — Sharri Bertagna,
Jordi Weaver, Shannon
Abero, Tiffany Lynn Bell,
Kayla Williams and Lonnie
Liddell — organized and
orchestrated 40 phenomenal
dance performances to a near-
full house during both shows.
“Putting this recital
together has been such a fun
experience for everyone. The
choreographers reached back
through time trying to figure
out how the dancers would
represent each era with dance
styles and clothing types,”
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Ballerinas performed as part of the recital.
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Liddell said.
“It was a
collabora-
tive process
to make this
work for all
the dancers.”
The open-
ing
per-
formance
depicted
dancers repre-
senting mov-
ing parts of a
clock. A huge
projection of
a clock behind
the dancers
gave the audi-
ence an imag-
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
ery of time Young Broadway/jazz dancers performed “It’s A Hard Knock Life.”
moving along.
year that Starbucks opened its
“The slideshow and digital child actress.
“Mona Lisa,” a lyrical bal- first coffee shop serving cof-
imagery for our recital was
orchestrated by Ann Alisa let dance number, represented fee in a cardboard cup.
The Wild West era came
Duerden, who is very instru- the year 1503 and portrayed
mental for the entire Dance six little female Leonardo da to life through dance on stage
Vincis, equipped with pal- when two little cowboys
Academy,” Liddell said.
For most performances, ettes, getting ready to paint stepped out on stage for a
the digital imagery of a clock the renaissance portrait Mona showdown joined by 10 little
remained behind the dancers Lisa. The song of the same hip-hopping cowgirls in the
while the clock parts moved name made popular by Nat number “Wild Wild West.”
The performers showed
in between the acts to give the King Cole motivated the bal-
lerinas into action.
off their creativity as they
illusion of time accelerating.
The audience went wild danced through a variety of
The audience was charmed
back in time to the 1930s, when the Junior Ensemble different eras.
The Spring Recital show-
when six little Shirley Temple danced to the number “Coffee
look-a-likes danced ballet in a Cardboard Cup,” a popu- cased all of the hard work that
to the 1934 hit song “On the lar tune from “70, Girls, 70,” the dancers and instructors
Good Ship Lollipop,” which a Broadway musical that had put in over the course of
was the signature song of the opened in 1971, the same six months.
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