MBHS Holds Annual Dance Beyond Convention

“It’s a one day event where dancers could pick two out of the three types of classes that are offered. The first part of the day we did introductions and then held a raffle. Then, the students had the choice of picking either a contemporary class, lyrical class, or hip hop class,” said Elena Smith, the coach of Dance Fusion.

These three classes also included two levels. Lyrical, contemporary, and hip hop range from beginning and intermediate to intermediate and advanced. This depends on what type of level teens are as a dancer. Each workshop has a choreographer who teaches the group a routine they will later showcase in front of the rest. This is mainly meant for teens to share a commonality of the art of dance, and show expression through their skills and motions. After the last class, all the dancers meet in the MBHS big gym and perform routines they learned. Schools perform their own routines as well. Dance is not something easy to master, and can be physically difficult. Teen dancers work hard on their skills and routines to eventually perfect them. Dance is a form of art, but dancers too are athletic, so the two components bring athletic ability and art together and form into one. 

“It was taking the ability to take a dance class from professionals in the community. There were ones from Cal Poly, Allan Hancock, and from Klein Dance studio,” said Smith.