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Speaker 1: Jaye Tong's from Ashburton Intermediate Morning morning. How long we

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Speaker 1: got left for the year at Intermediate?

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Speaker 2: So we finished this Thursday? What Yeah, so good.

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Speaker 1: Not that anyone's counting, of course, it sounds like it's

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Speaker 1: been fun times. To round things off, we've got our

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Speaker 1: Milli Vanillion with lip sync last week and then tonight.

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Speaker 1: A tradition that spans the generations continues. It's the act

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Speaker 1: formerly known as the Year eight four more the Big Dance.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about this, Yes, it's called the Year eight

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Speaker 1: Leaders Dance. I looked up and I saw that that's

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Speaker 1: what we call it now to avoid controversy. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: that's happening tonight. It's the right of passage at Ashburn

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Speaker 1: and Intermediate School where we teach the good old fashioned

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Speaker 1: dances and we learn about etiquette and all that type

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Speaker 1: of thing, and we celebrate the time that they've been

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Speaker 1: with us. Brings back the memories for yours truly. So

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Speaker 1: what do these kids have to learn? What routines?

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Speaker 2: So we have dancers called the Gypsy tap and the

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Speaker 2: Colo and the Boston two steps, lots of old ones,

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Speaker 2: but they're good because they've got really simple moves and

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Speaker 2: they can learn them, and funnily enough, they're the ones

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Speaker 2: they dance two more on the night because I've actually

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Speaker 2: got something to dance to.

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Speaker 1: The waltz.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we do the welves. We do the snowball wells

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Speaker 2: where we start with the school leaders and then they

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Speaker 2: bring on a partner, so the music stops and pick

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Speaker 2: another partner. The music stops, you pick another partner until

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Speaker 2: the whole dance floor is up.

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Speaker 1: So when you say pick a partner, does that mean

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Speaker 1: having to cross the room Because there's always that awkward

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Speaker 1: set up with the dudes on this side and the

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Speaker 1: girls on that side. You've got to cross the room

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Speaker 1: and pick somebody to dance with.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and you have to say yes, and you say,

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Speaker 2: may I have this dance?

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Speaker 1: Do we have? There been willing participants up to this point.

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Speaker 2: They're very good. They absolutely love it. We make a

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Speaker 2: big suing of etiquette. I make a big thing because

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Speaker 2: when I went to my year at college I mean

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Speaker 2: not year at college ball, my college ball, it wasn't

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Speaker 2: like that my partner was too embarrassed to ask me

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Speaker 2: to come and done. Ah Right, When I teach, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to make sure that they let an etiquette memory

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Speaker 2: and they Yeah, they're in the confidence of asking for

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Speaker 2: people for a dance and they absolutely love it.

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Speaker 1: What's your big tip for those with two left feet?

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Speaker 2: Oh god, it doesn't matter, just enjoy it, have fun.

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Speaker 2: There all pretty good. No one there actually better dancers

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Speaker 2: than we are.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's cool. So well, well processes have been up

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Speaker 1: to this point learning the dances and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So we have weekly practices and at first are like, oh,

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Speaker 2: do we have to for more? And then every week

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Speaker 2: after that, have we got formal practice this week? Do

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Speaker 2: we have formal practice?

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Speaker 1: That's neat?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we mix in, like I say, the old

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Speaker 2: fashioned ones and then we do a couple of modern

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Speaker 2: ones to show them that are at a wedding or

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Speaker 2: something like that, how they can do some moves rather

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Speaker 2: than just a side tap and some moves like that.

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Speaker 1: If there's if there's two great life for greats that

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Speaker 1: I've got, Jade, it's not learning an instrument and not

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Speaker 1: learning to dance, because it's incredible how many times you know,

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Speaker 1: you go along to say a wedding or whatnot. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing cooler than the guy who can get up there

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Speaker 1: and shows free to stare off on the dance.

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Speaker 2: Floor exactly exactly, So we give them moves in thank

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Speaker 2: mister Nichol, who used to teach here, who is a reliever,

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Speaker 2: now has a disco dance that he teaches them to

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Speaker 2: staying Alive, all right, and he's found that they've been

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Speaker 2: overseas and people they've gone on to the dance floor.

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Speaker 2: I think it was the Gold Coast where a couple

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Speaker 2: of ex Shburn intermediate students had the whole nightclub rocking.

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Speaker 2: Was staying Alive disco moves brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Well, you look at what Robert Irwin's recently achieved over

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Speaker 1: in the stats and dancing with the stars. Anything's possible

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Speaker 1: and it can all stem from the Ashburn intermedia to

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Speaker 1: seniors formal. So do we need to dress up for

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Speaker 1: this tonight too?

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Speaker 2: Are yes? Semi formal? So yeah, so sort of like

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Speaker 2: if they were going to a wedding or something like that,

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Speaker 2: whatever they would wear that not like your full ball

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Speaker 2: gams like the college bawl.

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Speaker 1: Let's get on the bow tie. Hey, that looks stepper.

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Speaker 2: It does