Footlight Dance and Sun Valley Music Festival Music Institute students will be spreading
holiday cheer bringing a performance to the WRHS Performing Arts Theater at the Community
Campus in Hailey, on Saturday, December 13, 7:00 pm, a free event. This annual collaborative event
will have the dancers and musicians performing together! “Both programs are excited to bring the
two arts disciplines together to perform for our 3rd year. For the dancers, we usually perform to pre-
recorded music as live musicians are an expense we cannot afford to add onto our production costs,
and for the musicians they rarely get the opportunity to play for dance. The experience brings
challenges and rewards for both as they learn to pay closer attention to details from the conductor in
regard to tempo, and the dancers must listen to the subtle differences of the final version from
recorded to live.”
The production will include Footlight’s Intermediate Tap Class, performing to a holiday classic
choreographed by Robyn Fox, as well as the newly added Teen Jazz Class, choreographed by
Director, Mackenzie King. The evening will conclude with a joy of the season, a Nutcracker Medley to
bring delight into focus for all. The twelve Footlight dancers performing are from our Intermediate 3/4,
Junior Company level. These dancers attend WRMS, WRHS and SV Community School. The piece
they will perform has been choreographed by Hilarie Neely. The musicians are part of the Sun Valley
Music Festival Sinfonia Pops Orchestra and attend WRMS, WRHS, and Syringa Mountain School.