Each year, George School dance students and their teacher collaborate to produce a show that is entertaining for the audience. This year’s theme, Occupy North Pole, can be seen as a modern-day version of A Christmas Carol, where Ebenezer Scrooge’s heart is touched by a child.

The twenty-minute artistic dance production featured a similar message with the audience experiencing the peace and happiness achieved when Santa and the elves reach out to their adversary. The performance concluded with everyone on stage joining together to live in harmony.

“We all need to be politically and socially aware,” said Barbara Kibler, dance teacher. “We have to step up and help each other.”

Khadydra Hazzard ’12 performed in her last holiday dance at George School, and she said she will cherish the memories of these shows, which offer a heartfelt message to put the audience in the holiday spirit.

“This performance is filled with meaning,” said Khadydra. “Barbara takes her time and thinks of elaborate story plots that allow all of us to grow as dancers and performers.”

The dance performance kicked off Holiday Weekend which featured a Winter Formal for students on Saturday evening. Parents joined students, faculty, and staff for Holiday Meeting for Worship on Sunday evening, December 18, 2011, in the George School Meetinghouse. A variation on the traditional silent worship practiced by Quakers, Holiday Meeting for Worship is held by candlelight, with music before, during, and after silent periods of worship. The head of school began the worship by reading aloud the Christmas story from the Bible.

About George School
Founded in 1893 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), George School, a rigorous coed boarding and day school for grades nine through twelve, educates students from nineteen states, forty foreign countries, and a variety of ethnic, racial, religious, and economic backgrounds. Twenty-three percent of George School’s operating budget provides financial aid for students, one of the largest percentages in the country, and 47 percent of students receive some sort of tuition aid. Through its commitment to diversity and the Quaker values of equality, integrity, and peacemaking, George School inspires students to be led by their own truths while respecting and appreciating opinions and beliefs different from their own. George School was one of the first schools in the United States to implement an International Baccalaureate diploma program. For information about admission, please call 215.579.6547 or visit http://www.georgeschool.org.

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