Arlington School District
For
Immediate Release
Date: January 9,
2008
Contact: Melissa Smith,
Community Relations
802.375.2589, ext. 147 ~ smithme@bvsu.org
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802.375.6070 ~ smith209bh@verizon.net
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Dance Competition
in Arlington
Arlington, Vt.—Fresh off their third place win at the Middlebury
regional competition, Arlington Memorial High
School will host its First Annual Dance Team
Competition for area schools, Saturday, January 19, beginning at 1 p.m. in the
gymnasium. Tickets for admission are $5 for adults and $3 for students.
The schedule for
the day will be a busy one as eight area schools compete in the three dance
categories, pom, hip hop and jazz. Each team will be judged on dance
technique, group execution, choreography, overall effect, and communication and
projection. Trophies will be presented to the three teams that score the
highest in each dance category. In addition to Arlington, the dance teams scheduled to compete are from
Burr and Burton Academy (three teams), Mount Anthony
Union High
School, Mount
Greylock High
School, North Country
High School and Springfield High School.
Arlington’s Dance Coach Allyson Hoffman is
pleased to be hosting a competition in southern Vermont. “Dance was officially
recognized as a sport by the Vermont Principals’ Association just three years
ago. To qualify for the state competition, teams have to participate in at
least two regional events, which until now have been held in the Burlington area and other
communities further north. I wanted to offer a competition for schools in
the southern part of the state.”
During the event,
food will be available for purchase and tee shirts, designed by Hoffman and
produced by Real Sports, will be sold. The Arlington dancers will also host a 50-50 raffle
and a basket raffle to benefit the team. Hoffman is proud of the
community’s support for the dance team. “Arlington’s dance team started competing just
last year, and yet the community has embraced them. We received donations
for our basket raffle and our gift baskets for the visiting teams from numerous
organizations including Miles Lumber, r.k. Miles, Paulin’s, Homestead
Landscaping, Chittenden Bank, Berkshire Bank, Heinel’s Clothiers—the list goes
on and on.”
Hoffman, who has
coached the Arlington team for the past two
years, is overseeing the competition’s schedule with help from parent Anna
English and the Arlington school community. “This is a
student-run event, and the team is very excited. One of our students,
Michael Cervini, will serve as announcer, the Culinary Arts students are
preparing lunch and snacks, the Video Production class is taping the event to
show on Channel 16 and members of SADD are having a bake sale. It’s going
to be a fun day for everyone.”
For more
information about the Dance Competition, contact Hoffman at hoffmana@bvsu.org or 375.6409. You can
visit the AMHS website at www.arlingtonmemorialhs.org. The Arlington School District mission is to create a
safe, caring and respectful environment of academic excellence where students
are uniquely challenged to reach their potential at the K-5, 6-8 and 9-12
levels.
PHOTO: Shown here are members of
the Arlington Dance Team with their trophy from the Middlebury Regionals.
From left to right are (bottom): Kelsey McFadden (Co-Captain), Amy Horton
and Selene Clark (center): Mia Lentinello, Adrienne Corey and Ariel Grover
(top): Stephanie Farden, Anna Vasylenko Coach Hoffman, Brooks
English (Co-Captain), Hanna Woodard