14 Jun 2017
Monday 29th May saw The Rivers Dance Ensemble perform at the Far North Coast Dance Festival 2017. This year's event, one of the biggest on the dance calendar, was held at The Arts Centre on the Gold Coast. The festival is always exciting to attend as it gives our students the opportunity to perform in a professional environment.
This year the Rivers Dance Ensemble was made up of students from all three campuses of The Rivers Secondary College, Goonellabah Public School, Lismore South Public School and Lismore Heights Public School. In addition, there were a further three dances entered; year 7 and year 11 elective classes from RRHC, the year 9 elective from LHC and The Combined Schools Sport group. Altogether, there was close to 70 students representing The Rivers P-12 Learning Community in the festival. The students in these ensembles worked diligently for 16 weeks to perfect these dance items, some students even contributing to the choreography and dedicating extra time to rehearse at lunch times. On the night, Kashmir Miller and Anna McKey, students from The River Secondary College, Lismore High Campus compered the event.
Performances in all four dance items were outstanding at the evening's show, with the organiser mentioning that she was always excited to see what The Rivers P-12 Learning Community would bring to the festival that year. Well done to all performers involved and especially the two dance teachers, Laura Zappia and Elise Dessmann. Thank you for all your hard work and commitment in preparing our students for the Far North Coast Dance Festival.
