A popular tradition at Willow Road School is the annual ballroom dance cotillion under the direction of physical education teacher Peter Gatto. To prepare for this year’s sixth annual cotillion, fourth-grade students had the opportunity to learn ballroom dancing.
Students participated in a ten-week program designed to teach them life skills through the art of dance. Lead by dance coordinator Kathryn de Bruin and dance teacher Eileen Clark of Dancing Classrooms, a nonprofit program of CoDanceCo, Inc. Students were taught the Fox Trot, Merengue, Rumba, Swing, Tango and the Waltz.
Once the students completed their dance instruction, they demonstrated what they had learned during the formal dance cotillion, where parents, teachers and students danced the night away.
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