Homecoming review: Juniors impress with dances, participation despite decoration shortcomings

In the class of 2015’s lunchtime Quad Day on Oct. 3, the juniors came together and delivered a solid performance, with impressive dances all around.

Their Pokemon-themed skit starred juniors Joowon Lee as Ash Ketchum and Adrienne Kim as Pikachu. They find adventures along their journey across the Pokemon world. 

Before the classes are allowed to perform their skit, they must get the script checked by administration, who then gives the OK. In the past, the appropriateness of the jokes has been somewhat of an issue.  

“It was really hard to make the skit funny without crossing the line,” Lee said. “The skit took about seven hours to write and it was hard to make it funny to [everyone].”

While the juniors’ skit was easy to follow, their fast-paced dances stole the show. 

“I thought our dances were the best so far because the freshmen and sophomore dances were slow and there was a lot of standing around,” junior Michael Cole said. “In ours, almost every count we were doing something.” 

The break-dancing routine and the stunt dance were two of the more memorable performances of the afternoon. The choreographing of many of the juniors’ dances was sharp, including that of Cole’s all-guy dance.  

“[Junior] Alvin [Kim and I] did the choreography [of our dance] so we watched videos and pulled things from everywhere including the Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” Cole said. 

While the dances were well choreographed, Lee said, ”The participation really was good but also the commitment to learn the dances. The separate dances definitely put in a lot of time to learn those on their own. We had roughly 128 people in the finale and in all the other dances combined we had about 150.”

The participation in the dances was abundant, but the participation in decorations was lacking. 

“[Next year] I hope even more people participate and everybody goes to decorations because this year not everyone went,” junior Joy Tang said. 

Despite decoration issues, there are high expectations for Homecoming 2014. 

“[We hope to] make it bigger and better,” Kim said.