Aliso Niguel High School’s Dancing with the Soccer Stars is an annual performance by the dance team and the three levels of the boys soccer team.
The performance is done by one member of the girls dance team and two members of the boys soccer team with which they perform a short dance choreography. This year’s girls dance team captains are Allie Hindsvark and Celeste Cohen who will be leading the practices and preparing for their performance.
Last year on Jan 31, marked the first ever Dancing With the Soccer stars performance at the Aliso Niguel High school, which gained a lot of popularity by the students and families.
In addition to providing entertainment, the yearly performance generates funds for the Dance team and Boys soccer team through the votes collected from the audience. Each vote costs one dollar, and voters can cast multiple votes for various groups. The group that receives the highest number of votes will ultimately be declared the winner.
The dancers and soccer players started their practice with their teammates on Friday Jan 10, giving them a little less than three weeks to practice and prepare for their performance.
Allie Hinsvark spoke on this, “we are so excited to start practice because it is always so fun to spend time with each other and prepare for the upcoming performance.”
This year’s performance consisted of eight teams, starting with the performance, followed by the votes of the judges of Keith, Randie Baldwin, the dance coach, Desiano and principal Dr. Mahindrakar.
The first group’s performance was with dancer Celeste Cohen and soccer players Sean Bruner, Breaden Collins and Harry Arnold.
They danced with Party Rock in their awesome customs of black shirts and gold chains around their necks. The group immediately gained the crowd’s love and received a 10 from Keith, nine from Coach Baldwin, eight from Desiano and a 10 from Dr. Mahindrakar.
Desiano spoke on the performance, saying, “I loved the performance and thought the timing was very good”.
The second performance was done by Allie Hinsvark, Noah Eason and Liam Yagiz, who danced to the song “Hot To Go”.
The group had matching red shirts and black pants, and performed very energetic and enthusiastic choreography.
This group got a 10 from Keith, nine from Baldwin, eight from Desiano and a 10 from Dr. Mahindrakar.
Dr. Mahindrakar spoke about their performance, “I really loved the song and I thought that it was a very good performance in general”.
The “Pitbull mix” group, with Mia Ross, Jacob Estall and Joshua Estall went next, dancing in matching bedazzled blazers.
The performance won the crowd and got a 10 from Kieth, nine from Baldwin, eight from Desiano and a 10 from Dr. Mahindraker.
Keith said, “I loved the outfits and think that they did a really good job.”
The “Michael Jackson mix” group with Amanda Dadson, Kerra Cem, Kaito Nakamuru and Jared Moss was next. The group got a 10 from Keith, a nine from Baldwin, an eight from Desiano and a 10 from Dr. Mahindrakar.
The “Read your mind” group went last with the performers Emma McDonnel, Yena Kang, Kenan Otalvaro, Cody Trapp and Arman Ross Angha.
