Tara Elementary, Braden River Middle School dancers team up for recital
Elementary and middle school dance students presented 14 routines to friends and family.
By
Jessica Salmond
| 11:21 a.m. May 14, 2015
East County
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Kindergarten through eighth-grade students hit the dance floor Wednesday, May 13, at the Braden River High School auditorium.
Tara Elementary School and Braden River Middle School dance teams performed 14 routines for family and friends, performing hip hop, jazz and freestyle ballet routines to songs such as Let It Go from Frozen and Shake It Off by Taylor Swift.
Coach Bunni Roberts organized the recital, "Let's Dance," and gave the 80 girls who participated medals at the end.
For middle-school graduates, the recital was an emotional conclusion to their dance career. Eighth-graders embraced Roberts after the recital, as it would be the last time they all danced together, and several of the eighth-graders left after the recital to make it to Braden River High School dance team tryouts.
"I'm sad I'm not going to have my old teammates," said Hayley Veltri, a Braden River Middle School graduate.
Braden River Middle School dancers perform a routine to Love Runs Out.
Tara third-grader Haylen Hang performs to Break Free.
Reina Langley, Braden River seventh-grader, performs to Problem.
Tara Elementary dancers set up their finale to Shake It Off.
Tara Elementary School dancers performed a routine to the song, Umbrella.
Riley Anderson, a Tara fourth-grader, performs to Umbrella.
Celeste Wilson and Sadie Kruse, second- and first-grade students at Tara Elementary, do-si-do to I Wanna Be a Cowboy.
Harley Kovalick performs a free-form routine with fellow Braden River Middle School dancers to Thinking Out Loud.
Breana Nasser, a second-grade Tara student, performs to I Can't Believe It's Christmas.
Katie Hang, a 12-grade Braden River High School student, performs a routine with her sister, Haylen, to Break Free.
Olivia Andrews, Emily Byrd and Samantha Torino, Braden River Middle School dancers, perform a pompom routine to Problem.
Braden River Middle School dancers perform a pompom routine to the song, Problem.
Tara Elementary School dancers choreographed their own routines to Shake It Off by Taylor Swift.
Braden River Middle School dancers perform to Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran.
Harley Kovalick, Braden River Middle School eighth-grader, performs to a Brittany Spears mix.
Skylar Rattana, Tara fourth-grader, danced hip-hop to Afterparty.
Tara Elementary School dancers perform a pompom routine.
Dance Coach Bunni Roberts hands medals to the 80 participants.
Hayley Veltri tearfully accepts a bouquet from her mother, Mora Veltri, and her grandmother, Carol Goodnight.
