The dance team performs sets from fall 2021 and winter 2022

Camille Lenning | Entertainment Editor

Western’s dance team has entertained audiences at football and basketball games all year, and now they are opening their doors at Maple Hall to perform for the public in a unique showcase all their own. 

Senior art and design major Jenaya Stevenson serves as president and coach of the dance team. Her efforts helped produce the Winter Club Showcase, which she hopes is the first of a new tradition. 

“I thought it would be a great idea, not only just for friends and family, but for the whole student body to see and to get people who may not be dance majors or minors interested in the activity,” Stevenson said of the planned performances. 

The majority of the routines selected for the showcase will be from the dance team’s fall and winter term performances, including “Fast Motion” and “Staying Alive,” both of which were performed during football halftime shows. However, there will also be solos and duets that were choreographed by the dancers and old coaches specifically for this event. 

Stevenson expressed pride in the dances, the dance team and their efforts to put on the showcase. 

“It was so great to see everyone push themselves and learn things when they didn’t have the luxury of time,” Stevenson said. “I think that they deserve their own time to shine.”

The dance team will be performing their routines on Feb. 11 and Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. inside Maple Hall. Tickets for the showcase will be available in the Werner University Center on Feb. 9 and Feb. 10, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. If purchased at the dance team’s tabling, tickets will be $5 for students and $8 for non students. Those who want to buy tickets at the door on performance nights will be charged $10. 

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