March 20, 2018

After starting off their debut with a skit about Shrek, the freshmen are creating a twist on a famous debate, “Pop Versus Rock”.

“I like seeing people work together to make a potentially influential and productive outcome,” says freshman Will Anderson. The topic was chosen due to a group vote between Pop Versus Rock and Grease.

The topic spurred a lot of thoughts in choreographers Amber Pilgreen, Sarah Ross and Hannah Lawrence’s minds. Pilgreen has been dancing for five years at Irene’s School of Dance with Ross who had been dancing at Irene’s School of Dance for 11 years and although Lawrence has been dancing at Northwest School of Dance for two years, she has had previous dance experience.

While they were creating the choreography to the songs, their thoughts of doing good in front of the school combined with the beats of the music helped inspire a lot of their dance moves. The dance that they have produced is unique because of their background in the different styles of dance, the different studios they have attended and how they interpret the music. Three words that would be used to describe the dance is:

“Interesting, simple and exciting,” commented Connor Huey.

“A fat mess,” described Pilgreen.

“Tried our best,” said Ross. In comparison to an outsider’s opinion like Angela Chen who saw it for the first time recently.

“I believe, as an outsider I would describe this dance as strangely amusing in a good way because of the unique music and their funky dance moves,” said Chen.

The group will also try to get the crowd participating with them during the lip sync.

“We will try to get the crowd participating, like we’ll get some freshmen officers to rile up the crowd,” said Huey. There are a lot of well known songs going through their playlist, from artists like Britney Spears to Green Day.

What they lack in size, they make up for in effort. The freshmen group has some surprises in store and the dance will give the audience a fresh take on the age old argument of pop versus rock.