Glitz and glamour filled third floor of the renegade event center as the Office of Student Life held the Atlantis Gala Homecoming Dance for all students, staff and guests welcomed to attend. Everyone was dressed to impress and wearing huge smiles as they stepped out of the elevator to be greeted by balloons and the staff at the welcome table.
Sara Pogue is the public relations manager for BC’s SGA and she explained, “one of our former Student government members picked the Atlantis theme and we all came together to really pick more of a spooky vibe for it so we did more of like the underwater spooky mermaid type of theme that we ended up doing today.”
BC students Johana Solis and Randy Arevalo decided to take a break from dancing and sip on lemonade with added candy at the bottom of their drinks to sweeten it and share their thoughts on the Gala Solis explained, “I love how creative everyone has been with the theme and how cohesive everything has been with the decorations and even the outfit outfits.”
Electrifying, is the word best used to describe the music played by DJ Pantomime all night long. The dance floor was full of dance battles, breakdancing and of course, slow dancing.
One student danced his shoes off! Andrew Riel ecstatically exclaimed what he loved the most, “The dancing! I always love dancing!”
The dance battle broke out during Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” then the DJ decided to turn the tables on everyone and unify them by playing the song, “Caballo Dorado – Payaso De Rodeo” which made everyone start line dancing as one.
One BC student, Lia Perez, brought her sister Ivana Perez to not only her first gala but her very first dance in her entire life, she never went to high school dances but she made it to this one. Perez rated, “10/10 my experience been really fun!” As she continued to dance the night away Perez seemed to have a great first dance experience here at BC’s Atlantis Gala.
The music seemed to make the gala a magical evening in a way that no one expected. It unified everyone at the Gala, so that no one were strangers, and everyone were friends.
While sipping on his sweet lemonade Arevalo expressed, “I love that events like this bring a lot of people together, different society, groups, kind of get together and they kind of come for the same symbolic meaning of just dancing and want to have a good time.”
