Dec. 5-9Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble Performs for Wicomico Students
The Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble will present assemblies on “Keeping the Beat: Contemporary American Traditional Dance” at Wicomico schools Dec. 5-9; some schools already had Footworks assemblies in November. Footworks is a professional touring company that has dazzled audiences throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan, since 1979. Their repertoire is a cornucopia of dances ranging from step dancing in the Southern Appalachian Mountain tradition to African Boot dancing, French Canadian and Irish step dancing, along with hamboning, hoofing, and original choreography, all performed to live acoustic music. Performance dates are as follows:
Dec. 5: East Salisbury/WELC, Beaver Run
Dec. 6: Delmar, Westside Primary
Dec. 7: Salisbury Middle, Fruitland Primary
Dec. 8: Wicomico Middle, Prince Street
Dec. 9: Westside Intermediate
Friday, Dec. 9Mid-term Progress Reports sent home
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With the MSA test scores as dismal as they are in this county, why in the world is an assembly taking place about the history of dance? Are you kidding? Our children can't pass the tests, read, write or do math with proficiency, and we're having programs about step dancing? And, as for Prince Street School, their test scores from the most recent county benchmark tests (used by some as a predictor of success on the MSA) are abysmal - WORST IN THE COUNTY!!!!!!! The BOE needs to pull their collective heads out of the sand and cut everything that takes kids ut of the classroom right now!
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