Four Corners Uppers School began their Halloween celebration with their middle schoolers. On Halloween day, many students came to school dressed in their costumes and ready to start off their festive night strong with a Halloween dance.
Towards the end of the day there was BOO-ming music. The lights were dimmed, and many students spent the end of the day dancing to music in their spooky costumes.
FCUS made various social media posts communicating the details of the event and teachers spread news of the dance. However, some say the promotion of the Halloween dance was scarcely made. Eighth grader Yadieliz Osorio shares how she found out.
“Last year we had [a] Halloween dance on Halloween, so I was thinking maybe there is a dance this year. I asked one of my teachers and they said there is a dance. I went with my friends because I thought it would be fun, so me and my friends went together,” Osorio said.
The Halloween dance took flight as students raced around the room in their costumes and gathered to dance. Eighth grader, Zulianys Rivera shares their experience at the dance.
“One part of the dance that I remember which was really exciting, was when everyone would form a big circle and just jump or dance to a song. During one of them my friends and I decided to also join the circle, and it was very fun, definitely got your heart racing,” Rivera said.
During the dance, students dressed in all sorts of costumes gathered at the center to dance to song after song. Eighth grader Alexis Parry and her friends, Jimena and Olivia all went to the dance in a special group themed costume.
“We dressed up as Alvin and the Chipmunks, I was Simon, and my friends Jimena and Olivia were Theodore and Alvin. We had been looking for group costumes for a while, and we were looking on Pinterest and we found couple ideas, and we found the Chipmunks and we decided we were going to be that for Halloween, so we all got together and did that,” Parry said.
As soon as one entered the gymnasium during the dance, they were greeted with the zipping by of students in inflatables into a room jam-packed room with students in team costumes, Among Us characters, witches, princesses, and more.
“I saw at the dance, princesses and dinosaurs and minion, and people dressed as the joker. I was a princess, sleeping beauty. I had a pink dress that was kind of a corset and then I wore converse,” Osorio said.
Songs, new and old alike, were played, and some feel that these songs sparked excitement in the crowd.
“I felt excited, it was nice seeing all the people around me in such good moods, a lot of people seemed to be enjoying the party, as well as my friends especially when popular song choices would appear on the speakers,” Rivera said.
Some middle schoolers really enjoyed the excited, busy nature of the dance floor, but others, such as sixth grader Ava Fuller, were not particularly fond of it.
“I’d say I liked the music, and I liked the snacks. I think the thing that I disliked was [that] it was really overwhelming, almost, there was a lot going on at once. I think that’s also just part of the dance, but for me it was too much,” Fuller said.
At the end of the Halloween dance, many students were switching gears to focus on the long-awaited evening, when they could trick or treat with friends.
“Although the dance only lasted an hour or so, the memories made would surely last forever,” Rivera said.
