Silver Stars’ success at Spring Show

Victoria Newell, Managing Editor

Throughout the year, the Silver Stars have strapped on trademark uniforms with white boots and red skirts, danced on a gym floor before a panel of judges, and gotten countless grass stains. But at the end of the year, they trade off the unconventional venues for the Bowie Stage, and showcase their work this year.

 

The Spring Show is an annual, end of the year performance by the Silver Stars, in which they welcome new members, say goodbye to Seniors, and perform this year’s dances.

 

“Spring Show highlights the Silver Stars and the amount of effort put into this past year,”  said dance teacher Courtney Allison. “Seeing it all come together and performed is simply stunning.”

 

Every year, the Spring Show has a different theme.

 

“The theme of this year’s spring show was ‘Two if By Sea’. Thematically, I was really interested in a nautical idea,” Allison said.

 

The Spring Show strikes a balance between football season’s drill, and contest season’s air of competition and is more performance oriented.

 

“Spring Show is our recital, so during contest season were competing against different schools, so it’s more of a competitive feeling and vibe to it, and then football season is very drill and there’s not a lot of performance, but spring shows it just completely different because it’s like we get to be in character and dance more,” said junior Morgan Andrews.

 

This is one of the few times a year that Silver Stars get to perform on a stage.

“Spring Show is different because it’s the one performance that we get to do on the stage, verses like football season we perform on the field and contest season we perform on a gym floor,” sophomore Catarina Chavanne said.  “We get to showcase all of our dances that we worked on this contest season, plus more, and it’s like a true performance in a theater.”

 

Spring Show is a chance for Silver Stars to portray through dance the past year.

 

“The Silver Stars have grown leaps and bounds (pun intended). There is a sense of personal accountability, responsibility, and love that has grown in the last year. Ms. Davis and I couldn’t be more proud of how this year turned out,” Allison said.

 

As Spring Show draws to a close, Silver Stars look back on the bonds they made this year.

 

“Silver Stars is fun because we’re just a body of sisters, and we all get along, and we all just get to dance together and perform as a whole,” Andrews said.

Photo by Abby Ong