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Contributed by: Karen Groves/YourHub.com on 12/3/2008

The parking lot at the Community Recreation Center, a facility of
the Apex Park and Recreation District was full and the side streets took on the overflow Dec. 3. More than 140 people came to get into the holiday spirit with dance and music.

Performances by the Notable Choir, directed by Dori Walter and Ann Kennedy's dance teams entertained the crowd for the afternoon.

Kennedy has been teaching dance at the Arvada rec center since 1997, when she decided to get back into dancing after moving to Colorado from Connecticut.

"I had five people in my first class and it has grown from there," Kennedy said. Now she has 60 students in different classes. She grew up taking ballet lessons and had her own studio in Connecticutt.

"There are so many perks," she said.

Before the dancers came on stage, the Notable choir performed "He'll be Comin' Down the Chimney." Folks in the choir range in age from 51 to 85.

Choir director, Dori Walter, good naturedly said, "Not everything works perfectly. We discovered the pedal on the piano doesn't work, but a day's time is a little short notice, so just accept it. It's just a fact of life."

While the audience listened to the choir, members of the Rockyettes were backstage getting ready for several numbers on stage.

Kennedy was calm and collected when she introduced the first dance act.

Kennedy said she keeps busy with five different levels of tap and three levels of Broadway dancing. The students perform for civic clubs and at assisted living facilities. Kennedy tells students that performing is optional, but encouraged.

One of her students, Sheree Alfonso said, "She's a great teacher. I've been doing this a year and I definitely am signing up again in January. I highly recommend it. It's given me a renewed sense of living."

Another student commented that Kennedy makes the costumes. From the looks of the backstage area, where different groups were getting ready, she knows how to sew too.

"I was a home economics teacher," Kennedy said.

As they tiptoed backstage so as not to make too much tapping noise (yet), at least 50 women milled about backstage in different costumes. Some wore shiny lime green costumes with caps and feathers, some had a green and red braided pinafore look, with green antlers and several were dressed in pink poodle skirts and bobby sox for an Elvis Presley tune, "Santa's Bringing my Baby Back to Me,"

Kennedy said the classes are mostly women. "We would love to have men participate We have had a few, but mostly it seems to be women."

Up next:

New dance lesson sessions start Jan. 5. To inquire about having the Rockyettes perform, call l 303-425-9583.
The Santa Breakfast will be held Dec. 13 at 9 a.m. Cost is $5 per person. Registration is open for the winter session of classes which start in January. Call 303-425-9583 or visit www.apexprd.org.
The Community Recreation Center, a facility of
the Apex Park and Recreation District, formerly North Jeffco Rec Center, is located at 6842 Wadsworth Blvd.

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