Vegreville School of Ballet Spring Recital

Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent

The Spring Recital featured seamless choreography, polished artistic expression, and rhythmic movements during the dance performances at Vegreville Social Centre on April 27.

This dance group performs a Musical Theatre of Oz.

Master of Ceremony Voila Braun-Fox welcomed everyone and said, “Dance is a wonderful art form. It is a discipline that creates an awareness of the body and the mind working together, strengthening and stretching the muscles. Dancing is an art form that creates beauty with movement, rhythm, and music. Dance creates an opportunity for personal as well as group development.”

When asked, Owner and Instructor for Vegreville School of Ballet Laura Fleming explained, “Roughly 100 dancers were participating in the show on April 27 ranging in age from three to 18 years of age.

The highlights from the dance season included three festivals, at which our dancers were very successful.

I believe our dancers have grown together as a team this year. They cheer for each other and are happy when the other dancers are successful.”

When asked, dancers then spoke about their journey with dancing, Dancer Yaleena Gusnowski commented, “I decided to start dancing because I watched other people do it and it made me happy because it looked beautiful.

My favorite part about dancing is dancing on the stage and having fun. Then I like it when the audience encourages us.

My achievements this dancing season have been I won first place for Jazz and I got all gold for my solo performance in the solo show.”

Another young dance performer Madyson Ziprick said, “When I was three I decided to start dancing because I watched a movie about dancing. I liked this movie because a girl in the show thought she couldn’t dance and then she tried it and she turned out to be the best dancer.