Close to 200 performers made this year’s Dance Show at St Benedict’s School, Ealing, the best ever! The theme was ‘Out of this World’ and pupils from across the school took part. Ruth Kestenbaum, who choreographed the performance, produced a wonderful show which mesmerised the audience.
Year 2 started the programme with ‘Hocus Pocus’, a modern dance routine with witches and wizards, broomsticks and glow-in-the-dark wands. Next up were Year 7 with ‘Funny Bones’, a hip-hop skeleton dance, followed by ‘Fang-tastic’, a commercial dance routine about vampires performed by Year 9 pupils. Year 10 presented ‘Fairy Dust’, a commercial and jazz piece about fairies combined with ballet and Years 3 and 4 combined for ‘Marvel-icious’, a modern dance routine about superheroes and super villains. Just before the interval Years 5 and 6 performed ‘Fly Me to the Moon’, a dance routine encompassing modern jazz and hip-hop involving astronauts and aliens.
The senior students started proceedings after the interval with ‘The Haunted’ a contemporary dance about ghosts and, continuing that theme, the youngest performers from Year 1 presented ‘Ghostbustin', a modern dance piece involving ghostbusters. Year 8 performed ‘Celestial Combat’, a commercial pop routine combined with modern jazz and they were followed by Years 10 and 11 with ‘Arcade Antics’, modern jazz, martial arts and hip-hop combined in this dance about video games. A fantastic programme was closed by Years 3 and 4 with a performance of ‘Inter-Galactica’, a hip hop dance featuring Stormtroopers, Darth Vade, Luke Skywalker and Yoda.
