Dancers to perform at bowl game

Staff report

BOARDMAN

Dancers from Ruth’s Dance & Fitness Company will be part of the halftime show at the Camping World Bowl to be played in Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 28.

The college football game will begin at 5:15 p.m. and will pit No. 19 Oklahoma State against No. 22 Virginia Tech.

The show is being choreographed by Bonnie Story, who handled that duty for all of the “High School Musical” movies. Story was also a choreographer on the TV competition series “So You Think You Can Dance.”

She also co-choreographed the opening and closing ceremonies in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Fifteen of Ruth’s Dance & Fitness junior and senior students will be in the show. They have been rehearsing Story’s choreography with Ruth Balestra, the director of Ruth’s Dance and Fitness, since October, and will head to Orlando on Dec. 26.

In addition to dancing in the bowl game, the students will also dance in the Macy’s holiday parade at Universal Studios on Dec. 27.

The participating students are Katie Kurdziel, Struthers; Natalie Freed, Poland; McCallen Warrick, Boardman; Chloe Mershimer, New Middletown; Erin Morell, Poland; Shannon and Anna Joy, Columbiana; Jessica Joerndt, Boardman; Natalee Balestra, Canfield; Morgan Rapp, North Lima; Emily Caguiat, Boardman; Lindsay Volenik, Canfield; Angelina Sebastiani, Canfield; Kaylee Trolio, Boardman; and Chloe Klotz, Canfield.