The Junior-Senior Homecoming Dance Competition is an annual spirit event in which the girls in the Junior and Senior classes play flag football and the guys are the cheerleaders/dancers. Guys can also be the flag football coaches while the girls can be dance/cheer captains. The choreography is usually an over-exaggeration of cheerleaders and cheering for the football team. I sat down with several of the dance captains to hear about their experience of choreographing the dance this year.

Captains Nicole ‘27 and Bailey ‘27 stated that they wanted to share their love for dance with other people and to make people laugh. “I think we mostly just wanted it to be funny, we wanted to add a little bit of cheer elements in there so that we could look like cheerleaders when they’re hyping up our Juniors,” Nicole said.

Bailey says that the similar vibe that they were trying to have was supposed to be very “stereotypical” and “feminine… the boys just have a way of doing it that just makes it so funny.”

The songs they picked were a mix of modern hits and 2000s throwbacks such as “Sexyback” by Justin Timberlake, “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani, “Crazy In Love” by Beyonce and Jay Z, “Swalla” by Jason Derulo, and “Maria Maria” by Santana.

When talking about the hardest challenges of choreography, dance captain Shelby ‘27 said it was “probably getting everyone put together and having everyone focus and just sit down and learn the choreo.”

Many of them shared funny stories about what it was like to rehearse for dance, and everyone agreed that at the end of the day, dance is for everyone, and no matter what age, gender, sexuality, race, etc., you are, you can always learn to and enjoy dance.

“It’s not necessarily about the dance. It’s just about making it funny and sort of reversing the gender expectations,” dance captain Nia ‘27 said.

These performances show that anyone can dance whether it is a passion of yours or that you just want to do it for fun. Bailey ‘26 said, “there’s definitely no limitations, race or gender, or your sexuality, especially considering that dance is so big, diverse, and a statement used in protests…my advice is to not care what other people think, because dancing is supposed to be for you.”