By Anna Mefford
Sophomore Chase Myers took to the stage this past Tuesday during the morning meeting. Chase performed a solo dance routine to “The Greatest Show” from The Greatest Showman as part of the junior SGA’s introduction of the Prom theme for this year: Carnival.
“I thought Chase dancing would be a fun and exciting way to reveal the theme to the school,” said Vice President Sam Kellet.
Chase is on the Varsity Dance team at Lovett and takes the dance class. She explained how dance was her main hobby and that she has loved it “for a long time, ever since I was in lower school.”
Outside of Lovett, she takes ballet classes at Atlanta Ballet twice a week. “It helps me a lot more technically,” she said. However, out of all the genres of dance, she loves hip-hop the most.
As Chase has grown as a dancer, she has realized her passion for it and hopes to continue her journey and make it into a career. She aspires to go to college to study dance; however, she does not have any specific school in mind right now. She is looking at “mostly abroad colleges in Asia, like Japan.”
Chase has been on the Lovett stage plenty of times throughout high school, most prominently with her Homecoming Week talent show dance-offs against her fellow sophomore friend, Maya Hawkins. These always earn them a huge amount of support and love from students. Chase originally texted Maya to join her during this performance, however, she was too busy.
About two weeks before spring break, Chase received an email from junior special events coordinator Mason Bosworth first asking her to do this performance. She later received an email this past Saturday officially emailing her the song.
Chase then spent a good three hours choreographing the performance Monday after school. She decided to use a Boa as a prop to further embody the role of Hugh Jackson, who stars in The Greatest Showman.
When planning, she said she was very nervous. “I had had such short time to prepare and it was in front of the whole high school,” she said.
However, those nerves did not show on the stage as she “devoured that dance routine,” said senior Abby Odegard.
Chase received lots of positive feedback afterward and was glad she did it.
“Chase was absolutely amazing and exceeded my expectations,” said secretary Abby Thompson. “I am so glad we used her to present our theme as she really grasped the crowd’s attention and made it fun.”
