Mateo Motion Creates Lovely Commotion
By Victoria Xiao
The Dance Team tuts to the Super Mario Bros. theme song. (Picture by Victoria Xiao)
Dancers are silhouetted against a screen obscuring the stage. (Picture by Victoria Xiao)
Ballerinas spin in synchronization. (Picture by Victoria Xiao)
On Friday, May 7, and Saturday, May 8, the Performing Arts Center (PAC) rang with the sound of: music, tap shoes, and clapping. The reason for all this commotion was Mateo Motion, the annual dance show put on by the San Mateo High School dance classes and dance team.
The show was, for lack of a better word, simply stunning. Students, from freshmen to seniors, flitted across the stage with elegance and pizzazz. The show featured “a myriad of dance styles – contemporary, hip hop, jazz, lyrical, tap, ballet and pointe,” to quote the Mateo Motion Facebook page. The choreography married different styles of music and dances seamlessly together. Emotions in the house ranged from hilarity after a hilarious rendition of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” to melancholy after a haunting dance to Avril Lavigne’s “Slipped Away”. Again, it was a simply stunning performance.
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Posted by Victoria Xiao
on May 11 2010. Filed under A&E, Features.
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