Linden Christ, Manager of Education and Outreach, Chicago Opera Theater

The Opera For All students (330 students from five Chicago Public Schools) had the dance experience of a life-time while working with Choreographer, Devery McCoy. Devery taught two dances at each school: "I'm Holding Out for A Hero" and a baroque concerto by Albinoni mixed with a hip-hip version of Tik Tok (Kid-Friendly Version). The amazing part of this week was that each class had 40 minutes to learn the entire dance and all succeeded! Sure we'll have to review and clean-up some moves, but really overall the kids impressed all of us! We had a big laugh when one student from McKinley Park yelled out "This Hero's tired" while finishing up the dance, "I'm Holding Out For A Hero". Even the McKinley Park Principal Garcia, joined in on learning the dance!

Clinton Student, Harun Alihadric admitted:
"The Dancing was challenging because you had to keep on twirling, which makes you dizzy and you loose control on what supposed to do next. When we finished dancing I felt very tired because we had to do so many moves. I liked it because there were some funny moves that made me tired after the dancing which was good. I also liked it because we could loose some calories. That is my funny and dizzy experience for Opera."

Here's Devery McCoy teaching the Dance class!

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Both schoolmates and teachers should respect and learn from each other.