Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Stacy Morford Months before the dance show anic began, choreographers were ZEElaving away on dance designs. ven after their dances were per- حم ‎ the tension of practices began Bnd revisions became a common ` practice. ئ۲۲‎ “A lot of things | made up that 3 thought were easy were confusing fo teach to my dancers, so | made 6 lot of revisions during practices. e had to put in a lot of extra time, specially when it came to learning he quick steps,” senior choreogra- Eher Ann Basart said. Dance ch oreographers were llbften portrayed as impatient and de- manding. But in Terpsichore, cho- Sreographers also took the roles of a Fellow dancer and friend. We had a lot of fun with our Hance. There were only five people bain it so we helped each other and `` ٥0ا٥‎ laugh over mistakes, fresh- aman Anjie Gupta said. Many dancers had taken les- Bons together for years, and Terpsi- —Ehore seemed like just another re- 331 ra cital. To them, the unusual dances were more appealing. “Cheryl (Kaplan's) dance wasn t quite as jazzy as the others, it was slower and just flowed with the music. | could really get into the moves and | liked it a lot,” freshman Neena Paul said. Learning the dances was sim- ple for those who had been subjec- ted to weekly ballet and jazz clas- ses. But newcomers to dance found they had to struggle. | took two years of modern dance at school, but | still had some problems. | worked with Craig (Neal) during my free periods before the show to get my moves up to per- formance level,” senior Jeff Sturges Said. Once tryouts were over, those dancers who were chosen were as- Sured a spot in the show. A few re- turning dancers unable to attend tryouts were also put into the show, but they still had to prove them- selves in practice. | was really nervous about get- ting into the show. | was on crutches when they had tryouts, so Mrs. 2 D | ۱ ] A | WË: | i A LI e H - Bee CH » P i v à LJ H 4 ! A V ' 1 Du l| a d Í » ef | 1 P d N C ۶ » 13 ۸ 1 Í L4 4 4 » d s: v » || m M WI . H p ta j e 2 Dancers were plagued with fears (Mary) Kautzky put me in on a trial basis. | could have easily been kick- ed out, junior Mignon Iber said. Many fears arose beyond just getting in to the dance. One common fear was 'unitard-i-phobia . | used to think that | wouldn't be caught dead in a unitard. They are so explicit and the first three rows are always filled with guys and photographers, junior Allison Hor- ner said. But terror of tight-fitting uni- tards and fears of staying in the show were often upstaged by the horror of stage fright. “The night before the show | could hardly sleep. | kept going over the dance in my head again and again and thinking ‘What if | screw up?' sophomore Nikki McCubbin Said. As the show developed from choreographing to opening night, tension built. But to the dancers, the weeks of frustration and the three nights of frenzy were worth the ex- perience. forming Deb Smith's dance, ‘“Danzan Solas,” junior and choreographer Sara Git- chell slides toward the floor in a dramatic Sweep, portraying a woman's sorrow for her missing son. (Photo by Doug Adams) Drowing some shoulder flesh, senior cho- reographers Cheryl Kaplan and Jenny Lang take it all off (well almost!) in the choreogra- phers' strip tease. (Photo by Jamie Watt) | kept going over the dance in my head again and again and thinking what if | screw up?’ -sophomore Nikki McCubbin Terpsichore Student Life

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UU لے‎ EN LECHE ا‎ کہ سے تج جس ج۔ WM pS wer — — P 4 bu NNLLA A ee نت‎ NU Grinning nervously, sophomore Kim Olde- | | hoeft takes center stage in ‘Keepin’ You Mov- EC OU MR in!’ The dance was produced by one of the ee four junior choreographers, Tracy Rogers. SL bo 7 EE | | ۱ | (Photo by Doug Adams) | I (Lt p E Rr AE ! | | | | Bang glasses atop her head, Martha Trujeque dances the 'Jarana, a dance native to the Yucatan. Trujeque was a part-time stu- dent from Mexico who assisted with Spanish classes. (Photo by Doug Adams) pcm the show with her own moves, choreographer Ann Basart demonstrates an attitude jump. The dance, 'Give Us A Hand, was choreographed to music by R.E.M. (Photo by Doug Adams) سے e - — w Oo — IÓ—NqÓÀ‏ س A ————ÓMÀ‏ ہے

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دا = — essed Up some never took the time to clear away the clutter -Heather Jesse Not until you clean your room! This was a threat that stu- dents didn't like to hear. But after searching their rooms just to find a ringing telephone and discovering an ancient bowl of Cheerios, some students had to admit they lived the life of a slob. Slobs were found throughout the school, from the lunchroom to the classroom. You could spot a slob by the papers sliding out of their torn folders or the remains of lunch on their faces. | guess | love food so much | really eat fast and get it all over my face, senior Allison Bundy said. Slobs were also easy to detect by their jarred lockers with coats and math assignments hanging out. Mylocker is a mess. | leave pa- pers in there and forget to put books on the shelves and | often have sev- eral coats or P.E. clothes in there be- cause | tend to forget about them, freshman Peter Loutzenhiser said. While some students’ lockers resembled a pig sty, other students bedrooms were common for many teenagers. After pushing the clutter aside, freshman Jason Burris lies do wn on his bed to do his homework. (Photo by Jayna Jarnag- in) 66 love watching slobs chow on their food, Slopped everything into the back seat of their car. I'm too lazy to clean my car. It's never even been to a car wash. | al- ways throw things in there and wherever it lands it stays — every- thing just piles up, senior John Niyo said. Things also tended to pile up at home. Students’ bedrooms often had heaps of dirty clothes and evi- dence of missed dunk shots by the waste basket. | don't feel comfortable in a place that is totally neat. I'm afraid lII mess it up. In my room | can just throw things on the floor or under the bed, junior Rob Armstrong said. For other students, flinging a coat on the floor rather than hanging it in the closet was a way to escape from perfection. | often leave my room a little messy because ۱ figure if | have to be perfect in every other way, like at school, | can come home to my room and loosen up, sophomore Sa- mantha Shearer said. However, the ‘non-slobs’ wrin- zi E . rz d j WR TA ۱ Au? Lige AD fo ef oT om E — kled their noses in disgust when en- countering a messy situation. These perfectionists had to have every little trinket in its proper place. I can't tolerate slobs. | have to have everything neat and tidy. | even clean up my friends’ bedrooms,” ju- nior Tonja Morken said. Yet many students tolerated slobs as long as they didn't invade their space. If | don't live there (in a mess); no problem, as long as it's not a seri- ous public health problem, senior Jeff Berryhill said. But sometimes slobs did create health hazards. ‘| was trying to find a bare place to step in my room, but | miscalcula- ted. | caught my foot in a crate and took a big chunk out of my big toe,” junior Teri Pipitone said. Not all slobs went to the ex- treme of causing personal injury, but for many the threat of a locker clean- out was a nightmare. After all, who knew what they might find lurking at the bottom? — سس ہے ہے ےہ ہے مسر پچ P w E (v à‏ x e AE ری‎ Mr o 3 کی“‎ a! i woe | ar y H T. CK M |LEEENI ) | don't feel comfortable in a place that is totally neat. I'm afraid I'll mess it up. In my room | can just throw things | on the floor or under the bed. -junior Rob Armstror because they shovel it in so fast they don't | even stop to take a breath,” junior Craig Bar- num said as he watched junior Chris Kennedy eat. (Photo by Jayna Jarnagin)