# @macjournalism on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-05-31T20:39:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McCallum Journalism (@macjournalism) — https://gondola.cc/macjournalism

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NEW BEGINNINGS: macyouthdanceco directors Natalie Uehara and Terrance Carson held a ribbon cutting ceremony before the program’s spring performance, “Perennial” on Saturday May 11 to introduce the new dance building, which opened in February. The event was also accompanied by the Samba Knights to enhance the festivities.

Uehara said the event was very exciting for everyone involved in the Mccallum dance Community.

“Mostly it was families of dancers, as well as the foreman of our construction company. We also had some alumni parents as well, which was nice,” Uheara said. “It was super exciting and high Energy.”

After the performance, the program also held an after party inside the new building.

“We had a live DJ and we had food and beverages, and it was a really big, fun celebration,” Uehara said.

Uehara said the opening of the new building created a lot of growth for the Dance program, and the Fine Arts program as a whole.

“It’s amazing, it makes us feel validated as one of the strands in the Fine Arts Academy, and it also opens up a lot of possibilities for other strands as well,” Uehara said.

Overall, Uehara said over the last few years, the Dance program has expanded a lot due to more opportunities for students to be exposed to the program.

“I feel it’s definitely grown a lot over the past few years. Being a bigger part of the campus has helped that a lot and also having different outlets for the program, like a lot of theater kids or Dance I kids that didn’t know it was a possibility, later on join the program,” Uehara said.

To more pictures of Perennial, please visit macshieldonline.com or click the link in our bio.

Caption by Josie Mullan. Pictures by Chloe Seckar-Martinez.

#perennial #dance #MACdance #2017bond #2017AISDBond aisdarts #AISDProud

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