The YMCA Tyrone Dance Academy has scheduled a spaghetti dinner at St. Matthew\u2019s Social Hall on Friday, February 28 to help support its dance competition team. The menu includes: spaghetti, meatball, applesauce, roll, dessert and drinks. Special events at the dinner include: 50\/50 raffle, penny raffle, silent auction and performances by the Tyrone Dance Academy competition teams.
\nA special table will be set up in the YMCA Monday through Thursday from 5-7 p.m. for ticket sales. Also, tickets can be obtained from any competition team member. For the dinner on Friday, take outs and deliveries will be available; 4-5 p.m. for take out; 5-7 p.m. for eat in.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re trying to see if we have enough money to get a bus. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to wait and see about the spaghetti dinner to see how much money we raise,\u201d said the director of the dance academy, Lindsay Folk.
\nMarch 28-29 is the scheduled dance competition in Pittsburgh, entitled the Rising Star National Talent Competition. It is held from 9 a.m. to 12 midnight and draws more than 100 different schools for competition.
\n\u201cWe have five classes this year that we\u2019re taking to Pittsburgh for the Rising Star National Talent Competition,\u201d said Folk. \u201cWe have been practicing every week for it.\u201d
\nLast year the dance academy took three groups, and this year it has expanded in numbers to five. Each group consists of approximately eight to ten girls. They train all year for the event.
\nThe reason for the spaghetti dinner is to help raise money for a bus that would be able to transport all of the dancers to and from Pittsburgh.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s four levels of awards at the competition: platinum, gold, silver and bronze awards,\u201d explained Folk of what the dancers could win. \u201cIt\u2019s a certain point range. All the girls walk away with something. They also do first, second and third place.\u201d
\nAmong the performances, one Tyrone competition group is dancing to \u201cSaturday Night Fever,\u201d and one is dancing to Ozzy Ozbourne\u2019s \u201cMamma I\u2019m Coming Home.\u201d The competition teams encompass all different styles.
\n\u201cI think we\u2019ll do pretty well,\u201d said Folk of her hopes for the girls in competition.
\nFolk has been an instructor at the YMCA for four years, and she also teaches at the Hollidaysburg Dance Academy. The other dance instructor at the YMCA is Annie Young.
\nTypes of dance taught are: ballet, tap, jazz, point, lyrical and modern for students ages three to eighteen years old. There are approximately 70 students currently enrolled in the programs. Classes are held Monday through Thursday from 4-9 p.m., and some on Saturday afternoons. Open registration for classes is once in the fall, and once in January. After the competition in March, the next dance recital is tentatively scheduled for June 7 at the Tyrone Area High School Auditorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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