Ransom Everglades student-dancers danced through the decades during the REwind: All-School Dance Showcase on Jan. 27, donning period-appropriate costumes and performing to some of the most famous dance tunes of the last 65 years. Photo Gallery
Under the direction of dance teacher Desiree Masucci, students from RE's upper school dance team and in the middle school dance program danced to popular pieces as recent as the 2010s and as far back as Elvis' "Jailhouse Rock" from 1957. Ella Lombardo '24, Lauren Scott '24, Lena Zide '23, Lexi Barna '25 and Ella Adler '27 performed solos. Eighth graders danced to songs from the 2000s and 2010s; seventh graders from the 1980s and before; and sixth graders from the 1990s.
"I like to think that my students and I loved the idea of a decades show because we all love to fondly remember our childhoods, and we all have a soft spot in our hearts for nostalgia," Masucci said. "We, as human beings, connect this way." RE Dance Team
Flavia Contreras ’28 and her seventh-grade classmates "boogie-down" to disco songs of the 1970s
Stella Steinbook ’28 demonstrates her acrobatic skills during "Born to be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez
Ella Lombardo ’24 shines performing her solo to "Stay" by Rihanna
Seventh graders close the show with "Dancing Queen" by Abba
Lexi Barna ’25 dazzles as she performs her solo to "One Moment in Time" by Whitney Houston
Seventh-grade students go back to the 1980s as they dance to "Oh Yeah" by Yello from the movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ella Adler ’27* dances a solo to the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from George Balanchine's The Nutcracker
Dressed in velour tracksuits circa the early 2000s, eighth-grade dance to hits from Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Nelly Furtado, Sean Paul, Missy Elliot, Ciara, and N*Sync.
Cianna Vengoechea Schiff ’25 wows in a solo to "Vienna" by Billy Joel
Representing the 1980s in their leg-warmers and sweatbands, Charlotte Hansen ’28, Jordan Posner ’28, Ella Fuhrmeister ’28, Amalia Macias ’28, and Nina Cooper ’28 (left to right) pose during "You Spin Me Right Round" by Dead or Alive
Lauren Scott ’24 performs a solo to "Chasing Pavements" by Adele
Channeling the 1990s, sixth-grade students dance to "Let's Get Loud" by Jennifer Lopez and "Spice Up Your Life" by The Spice Girls
Eighth-grade students posing during Missy Elliot and Ciara's song from the 2000s, "Lose Control"
Sixth-grade students dance to MC Hammer's " U Can't Touch This" from the 1990s
Eighth-grade students take us back to that "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus from the 2010s
Seventh-grade students channel their inner Madonna during their dance, "Holiday" from the 1980s
The RE Dance Team and middle school dance students gather for final bows
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.