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By Douglas McCulloch
Hometown Weekly Staff
Project Moves returned to Medfield High to put on a dance show filled with positive messages for Medfield’s youth last Tuesday.
The dance trope is based in Brockton, and performs dance shows designed to promote positive messages to kids. 60 pre-professional dancers performed at the show in Medfield to showcase their dance talents and spread positive messages to Medfield’s youth.
This year, the group performed its latest production “Symphony,” to a crwod of 230 people at the Medfield High auditorium. The theme of the production centered on delivering empowering messages of working together, unity and peace to the crowd of Medfield students and their families.
For Blake Middle assistant principal Kelly Campbell, she was excited to welcome the dance group back to Medfield. They had previously performed in Medfield in 2012 to a sold-out audience. Last year’s performance covered bullying.
“There was a lot of students, parents and staff, and it was a different show from last time,” Campbell said.
Before the show began, some of the kids from the audience were taken backstage to get hands-on experience working with Project Moves. Project Moves dancers ran the kids through improv exercises and engaged and connected with them.
“[The dancers] did some improv exercises with the students,” Campbell said. “That was a really neat experience for them.”
Campbell noted how many of the dancers shared their own struggles with unity and acceptance. One male dancer shared his struggles with constantly being teased for being into dance.
“He delivered a wonderful lesson that the names you call someone will stick with them for the rest of their lives,” Campbell said.
