Bluffton High School’s new Tiger Dance Company presented its first show Saturday afternoon, raising funds for charity and bidding farewell to four senior members who will not be able to perform at future shows due to graduation.
Taylor Coratti, Lexi Garrett, Megan Hunter and Aja Hurst made their first and last appearances with the new group in a show which featured dancing representing three genres – lyrical, jazz and hip hop. Several members of the dance company also perform with Bluffton’s show choir, “Musical Entourage” which opened the show with performances of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidociuos” and “Alice’s Theme.”
Funds raised from the show benefited the Andrea Rizzo Memorial Foundation – a charity dedicated to the memory of Andrea Rizzo, who survived cancer as a young child but was then killed by a drunk driver while attending graduate school for dance therapy.
First year English/Language Arts teacher Amanda Berhalter (pictured above at far left during the "senior tribute" portion of the show with, continuing left, Hurst, Hunter, Garrett and Coratti) began the company shortly after Christmas. She hopes to make the show an annual event, and if the enthusiasm shown by the students is any indication, she will have plenty of students signing up to participate.
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