Alta High School - Accipitor Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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Sliding gracefully to the floor. Jana Kelsch and Kris ten McKee work on a dance number for the dance concert. Professional dancers came in to help the company with the dances. Practicing scenes makes an actor flexible enough to do many different characters, as Steve Ivie illustrates. Most Drama Club members have some kind of drama class where scenes are the main part of a students grade. X wm With their hair flying. Trisha Young and Shellee Mar tinez rehearse early in the morning. “Go along to the bath house says Irena Synkova (Jill Staker) to Raja (Laura Keddington). Drama stu dents put on the play I Never Saw Another Butterfly for the school and community. r - ' 56 • Dance Drama

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With ribbon tied candles a group of FHAers stare intently at the flickering flames of the initiation at the FHA party. Discussing the events of the FBLA pizza party Stan Chidester. Louis Edwards and Lisa Bay sit back and take it easy. During the week of Nov. 18-21 Alta High FBLA mem- bers traveled to the Western Regional conference. It was a chance for students all over to make new friends. Slurping is a group project for FBLA members at their opening pizza party held at Me-N-Willys. Mem- bers ate. drank, and played electronic games to their fullest. F.H.A. F.B.L.A. • 55

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Using Body Language Performances are the most important part of drama and dance.The Dance Com- pany has their concert and the Drama Club puts on the plays such as this years I Nev- er Saw Another Butterfly and the musical Guys and Dolls. These extroverted clubs helped students become more aware of themselves with the constructive criticism from their peers and teachers. When you get to school at six. you really get to know each other, comments Trisha Young on the closeness of the Dance Company. Each girl reported to school at 6:00 three times a week to prac- tice, many times with a professional danc- er, the dances they performed in the dance Concerts which was enjoyed by the stu- dents in March. With an epicurean approach to life, the Drama Club handled another year with an exciting party every month. Halloween costume, (Jn-Christmas, and Forties par- ties were among the creative list. No longer Thespians, the new drama club members, for initiation, were taken forcefully from their beds to the message rock at five in the morning, where they painted Alta Dra ma 1! These enthusiastic students pro- vide entertainment for the school and com- munity. These clubs contain some of Alta’s most creative and talented students, collected from every section of the district and every background imaginable and assembled into the stimulating environment that ex ists in each and every dance or drama class. Swinging his wrench at Nathan Detroit (Mitch Hall). Joey Biltmore (Steve Ivie) threatens him saying that he must pay one thousand bucks before he can shoot crap in his garage. Dance Drama • 57