Prom prep inspires dance lessons
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Addy Nelson and Graham Hurt demonstrate some waltz moves during a recent dance session - Tammy Cheek
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Asher Phillips and Niya Kaisare get tickled as they attempt the waltz. - Tammy Cheek
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Farragut High School’s Makayla Treadway, left, and Shelby Watson get some laughs in as they dance the waltz. - Tammy Cheek
Some Farragut High School students had an opportunity to learn some dance steps before the school year ended.
Tracy Kiumarsi, an instructor with Dance Center West in Farragut, recently taught the “proper way to hold a partner in a slow dance,” she said before the class began.
About 50 students were taught the slow dance, waltz, salsa and merengue and a little hip hop.
“This is kind of exciting that they’re into this,” Kiumarsi added. She was asked to come in by FHS Spanish teacher Allison Maldonado, who
also is the faculty advisor for National Spanish Honor Society and National Honor
Society. She observed how students attempted to dance at their proms and thought they could use some guidance.
“We need to teach our young people how to dance,” Maldonado said. So, she reached out to Kiumarsi.
“Mrs. Maldonado’s daughter took dance from me starting in middle school then through high school,” Kiumarsi said, referring to why she was asked to instruct the students.
In the meantime, National Spanish Honor Society students, who hosted the event, decorated the school’s commons with piñatas and other Latin American decors and treated the dancers to Latin American foods.
