Billings Senior High Jazz Dance

Friday April 7, 2017 was a fun and exciting night for the Billings senior jazz dance. This night was full of live music from both jazz bands and the choir. For the students who play in the jazz bands at Senior High get together and practice after school for about an hour. The musicians who play in jazz band is entirely out of volunteers on the students who are in band. The jazz band only meets once a week, but they can put a music composition together in about two months. They have to bring their instruments home the rest of the time so that they don't start in the same place each week. When they get together each week they work on more that just what they worked on the past week. They will continue to work hard on the music until the day that they are going to perform it for the audiences.  Corbin always enjoys playing at the dance and mentioned that “It is always fun to perform.”

The price of the dance this year was five dollars for students and ten dollars for students. Surprisingly there were more adults than students. For the Musicians they got into the dance free. Corbin Bodine laughed as he stated“I get in free ,so I don't really know.” It was held in the small gym.

The dance was not a formal affair so you could show up in sweatpants if you decided that that is what you were going to wear. Alex Hunnes stated “( the students and adults should dress) a little bit more country don't dress in sweats. Just make sure it's comfortable to dance in.” The jazz band will be wearing concert attire and “the boys will be wearing a tux and all,” Corbin explained. The girls will be wearing black and white. Either a dress or dress pants and a nice shirt. They will be just as fancy as if they were in the auditorium putting on a concert for our parents to see, instead they are playing music for the students and adults who are going to go to the dances.

“Sometimes Mr.Long let's us go wild,” claimed Corbin. When Corbin said Mr.long sometimes let's us go wild. He means that Mr.Long will stop conducting and let the bands go without a conductor.

Both Hunnes and Bodine would like to see more students at the dance next year.“Come to the jazz dance and support the band!” Corbin encouraged. Hunnes was one of the dance instructors at the dance he claimed “I want people to have fun. I don't want people to think that they can't dance because they never tried it. Dance with as many people as possible because there are different leaders and followers. Go out and have fun. Don't apologize when you make a mistake.”