These teens know how to dance

These teens know how to dance

Picture this: Eight clean-cut teenage boys sporting crisp, white shirts under their black tuxedo tails. Against each face is the curve of their white phantom mask. Framed across from them are eight teenage girls dressed to the hilt in their nostalgic black and white corset, laced dresses trimmed with gold and silver. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera” music fills the auditorium as the teens glide across the stage in unison to create formations and lifts and stunts that set the stage for their premier number of the show, “Dancing of the Night..” It’s just not something you see teens doing every day!

If you attended the annual Boys and Girls Club fund-raiser breakfast two weeks ago, then you got a small taste of the Pacific Ballroom Dance Team’s excitement for learning the art of ballroom dance and the lifetime skills of social dancing that go along with it. We performed for you at that event and would like to personally invite you to experience the thrill of viewing the formations and dance move of the entire team of 103 members from our very own community.

Since “freak” dancing (or sexually suggestive dancing) has become such a problem in our schools today, the ballroom team would like to ask for your help and support in getting the word out to teenagers that there is a fun, inexpensive and accessible alternative to inappropriate dancing.

We invite you to bring some youth between the ages of 14 through 19 to our concert, or just come and enjoy it yourself so you know what this non-profit organization is all about. We hope to see you on June 4 at either our 2:30 matinee or our 7:30 evening show, at the Auburn Performing Arts Center.

SAM ACUNA and HEATHER SABIN

Federal Way

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