The dance team learns this routine the week after we compete at our state competition. Our Coach, Mrs. Arends, choreographs this dance will some help from a few girls who were in a kick routine at camp. We choose a different Christmas song every year, but we wear the same “Santa” costumes. For those of you who don’t know what a kick routine is, it’s basically a dance where the girls are in a line with their hands on each other’s shoulders and everyone kicks the same leg in the air at the same time. There are low, medium, and high kicks, they vary throughout the dance.
The kick routine is very popular because there is a prize involved. The infamous competition is to guess how many kicks are in our routine! The person who guesses correctly wins a prize of $50. It is $1 for one guess or $5 for ten guesses. We dancers do not actually know the correct amount of kicks for the whole routine, believe it or not. Everyone always says just count the kicks and tell me and ill split the $50 with you, but it would take so much time to figure it out. Coach is the only one who knows how many kicks there are and she doesn’t count them until the day before or the day of our performance.
We sell the tickets to guess the amount of kicks at lunch
during the school day and before the game before we perform. The money we raise
goes to the dance team (except the $50the winner receives). The dance team is self-funded
and we really appreciate everyone who participates in our Christmas Kick.
The best part is during our performance when they student section
starts counting all of our kicks thinking they can count every kick. They
usually get to 15 or 20 kicks and then we start to break off into groups and
have girls kicking at different times and it throws of the students that are
trying to count. It’s funny to listen to everyone counting while you are kicking
and then you start to hear them get messed up and eventually stop trying to
count.
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