10:35
Music: Tiesto, Tate McRae
Choreography: Brooke Wrubel
Cast: Rebecca Acevedo, Elsie Betbeze, Eve Finley, Emma Gaffney, Faith Gardner, Brooklyn Pike, Tessa Stankiewicz, Althea Stefansic, Eva Stefansic, Kirsten Tumanda, Didi Umeukeje, Gianna Vaughan, Sofie Vaughn, Brooke Wrubel
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Music: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Choreography: Andrea Roberts
Cast: Cecilia Allen, Lottie Bader, Merym Holmes, Vivian McWhirter, Claire Minihan, Moira Sharp, Cecilia Thomas, Margaret Thomas
PUT ON A HAPPY FACE
Music: Tony Bennett and James Taylor
Choreography: Melissa Yokom Koehn
Cast: Josephine Adams, Miriam Adams, Georgia Arender, Mary Charles Bader, Ellee Carter, Mimi Fowler, Claire Hohmeier, Emory Laux, Dahlia Leza, Scarlett Leza, Mary Margaet Medvecz, June Sharp, Josephine Speier, Quinn Szelagowski
MY GIRL
Music: The Temptations
Choreography: Andrea Roberts
Cast: Charlotte Alexiou, Annie Bensabat, Mary Estes Bock, Rebecca Greer, Sawyer Lucio, Sophie Medvecz, Kennedy Sullivan
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
Music: Adele
Choreography: Didi Umeukeje
Cast: Lizzie Bethurum, Rinny Cioffi, Eve Finley, Emma Gaffney, Althea Stefansic, Eva Stefansic, Didi Umeukeje, Brooke Wrubel
U.N.I.
Music: Jo Jo Siwa
Choreography: Andrea Roberts
Cast: Eulalia Bobos, Vale Brown, Bridget Plosa, Francesca Schafer, Rosemary Strobel, Francesca Schafer
NOBODY
Music: From “Bandstand”. Corey Cott, Geoff Packard, Alex Bender, Brandon J. Ellis, James Nathan Hopkins, Joe Carroll, Laura Osnes, Beth Leavel, Bandstand Ensemble
Choreography: Maddie Williams
Cast: Caroline Freiburg, Mabel Larson, Charlotte Lee, Josephine Linton, Imani Payne
HUMAN
Music: Rag’n’Bone Man; written by Jamie Hartman, Nick Mouson, Rory Graham
Choreography: Brooklyn Pike
Cast: Elsie Betbeze, Lizzie Bethurum, Hannah Broderick, Tessa Brodhag, Emma Kate El-Shishini, Helen Enstice, Paige Hermanson, Mary Nunn, Tessa Stankiewicz, Clara Stefansic, Olivia Slocum, Gianna Vaughn;
Cover: Brooklyn Pike
Choreographer’s Notes: This piece explores societal pressures on today’s youth. “Human” pushes back on that pressure, reminding us all that people are imperfect. It’s this human imperfection that makes way for grace and creativity and that can produce something beautiful.
BIG TIME BOPPIN’
Music: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Choreography: Maddie Williams
Cast: Poppy Cognetti, Mary Collins Eldridge, Mimi Fowler, Millie Garner, Bridget Plosa
GISELLE: ACT 2 VARIATION
Music: Terrance Kern and London Festival
Ballet Orchestra
Choreography: Melissa Yokom Koehn
Cast: Charlotte Speier, Olivia Szelagowski, Avery Towns
LET ME MOVE YOU
Music: Mikkel Storleer Erikson, Steph Jones, Tor Erik M Hermansen, Sabrina Carpenter
Choreography: Brooklyn Pike and Clara Stefansic
Cast: Hannah Broderick, Maria Cervantes Bonilla, Rinny Cioffi, Sophie Crosslin, Helen Enstice, Eve Finley, Emma Gaffney, Faith Gardner, Brooklyn Pike, Olivia Slocum, Clara Stefansic
Choreographers’ Notes: This piece is meant to be empowering and energetic, embracing the dancers’ uniqueness and gifts.
MY FAVORITE PART
Music: PEABOD
Choreography: Andrea Roberts
Cast: Mary Charles Bader, Mimi Fowler, Celine Velasquez Kho
STILL WATERS
Music: Leanna Crawford
Choreography: Melissa Yokom Koehn
Cast: Charlotte Speier, Olivia Szelagowski, Avery Towns
DIFFERENT
Music: Billie Eilish and Finneas
Choreography: Rebecca Acevedo and Clara Stefansic
Cast: Rebecca Acevedo, Tessa Brodhag, Maria Cervantes Bonilla, Kayla Cordero, Brooklyn Pike, Clara Stefansic, Kirsten Tumanda, Didi Umeukeje, Brooke Wrubel
Choreographer’s notes: This piece explores the complex web and the ever-changing social landscape that is adolescent friendships. The dance portrays the journey of an individual as she tries to find a place in her social ecosystem. In the end, the dancers realize there is beauty in non-conformity and strength when individuals come together in a dynamic whole.
G.N.O.
Music: Miley Cyrus
Choreography: Alex Strobel
Cast: Caroline Freiburg, Imani Payne, Rynn Selly, Bella Vaughn
I JUST WANNA BE HAPPY
Music: Gloria Estefan
Choreography: Maddie Williams
Cast: Milly Cognetti, Brooke Henderson, Zoey Krupp
IT’S PARTY TIME
Music: Joe Jonas from the movie, Hotel Transylvania 3
Choreography: Maddie Williams
Cast: Elsie Betbeze, Lizzie Bethurum, Tessa Brodhag, Rinny Cioffi,
Sophie Crosslin, Helen Enstice, Paige Hermanson, Avery Nute, Althea Stefansic, Eva Stefansic, Gianna Vaughan
CREW
Stage Manager: Aubrey Bagley
Assistant Stage Manager: Izzy Kunde
Stage Crew: Mary Cecilia Meier and Ivy Treybig
Lighting by Bradfield; designer Isaiah Roerdink
SPECIAL THANKS
The Larson Family
SCDA Demonstrators: Audrey Bahan, Blake Birmingham, Helen Enstice, Rylan Gibson, Gianna Hanning, Charlotte Hoving, Althea Stefansic, Clara Stefansic, Eva Stefansic, Anna Kate Talbot, Gianna Vaughan
SDC and SCDA families: Sister Josemaria, SCA administration, faculty, staff, and students; Maddie Williams; Melissa Yokom Koehn; Andrea Roberts; Alex Strobel; Amie Pike and the Fine Arts Department; Amelia Strobel and Maria Marchetti; Annie Ligowski; John Wall and “the guys;” Candy Stefansic,
