TEAM Academy’s first-grade class, including Joaquin Alvarez, Georgia Courtney, Delaney Hertzog, Lacey Hertzog, Maridia McGuire, Evelyn Nelson, Jason Oviedo, Jayson Palmer, Ridley Pechacek, Anthoney Pickett, Brantley Stenzel, and Emanuel Zetino move and groove to "The Wiggle Song."
Talent at TEAM
TEAM Academy holds talent show
TEAM Academy holds talent show
Fri, 02/10/2023 - 1:28pm
Sixth-graders Jude Adams and Wyatt Partain served as emcees for TEAM Academy’s school-wide Talent Show the afternoon of January 27. It takes a lot of courage to showcase one’s talents in front of peers and family members, yet all twelve acts did just that.
Joseph Stencel wowed the audience with a magic trick. He had four pre-written cards crumpled on a desk in front of him, and asked TEAM paraprofessional Ashley Conley, in the role of assistant, to answer a series of questions. He then revealed his own cards, showing that he'd “read her mind,”: All four answers were correct.
The first-grade class opened the show together, doing the “Wiggle Dance.” Class members wiggled and danced together as the music called for different moves – until the track asked “Can you wiggle your eyebrows?”, to which several students shook their heads “no.” A smaller section of the first-grade class – Maridia McGuire, Georgia Courtney, Anthony Pickett, Ridley Pechacek, and Laney and Lacey Hertzog – performed to a second song, the Kidz Bop edition of “Whoomp, There It Is.” Rounding out the dancers, fifth-grader Lexi Hanson performed a lyrical ballet dance of her own creation to the song “Lovely” by Billie Eilish and Khalid. Hanson dances at Just For Kicks in Waterville, where she recently had a recital.
There were four sets of singers in the show. Jemsslie Rugger and Daleyza Castillo sang “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” from Disney's Frozen; Keira Holmgren, RJ Attenberger, and Miia Caballero sung a do-wap “Scooby Doo”; Kaylee Mondahl of Kindergarten sang a solo performance of “Meant to Be” by Bebe Rexhe and Florida Georgia Line. The sixth-grade class closed the show singing “The Duck Song,” a goofy number about a duck in a corner store.
Solo instrumentalists made up four of the entries. Keira Holmgren, fifth grade, played a piece by Bach on her clarinet; Wanli Chen of fourth grade played “Ancient Nations” on piano; Lucas Negrete, third grade, played “Waltz Time” on piano; and Tennysen Rugger of fifth grade played “Hot Cross Buns” on trumpet. At the end of the show, Adams, a trumpeter himself, went off-script as emcee to tell the audience, “I cannot play the trumpet like that,” in response to Rugger's performance.
