The Senior Farewell rally took place in the big gym on May 22, with new events like a krump dance battle and performance by Kid Kin taking the place of the annual senior skit.
For the final rally of the year, the Leadership class wanted to do something that included rep
resented a diverse portion of the student body. The dance battle’s participants included groups ranging from Honors Biomed to varsity baseball to a group entitled “Cameron and Friends.”
For the dance battle, groups of at least five students faced off against each other at one time in the middle of the gym to pop classics of the early 2000’s.
For the final showdown, sophomore Cameron Ely from the group “Cameron and Friends” and Haneef Foster from Advanced Drama went one-on-one against each other.
“I had no idea that was going to happen,” Ely said. “We were over in the corner, going like, ‘Okay, we’re going to do this or this and the hosts of the rally said, ‘Okay, can we have the two team captains come up and do a dance battle?’ and I was so nervous.”
Foster cartwheeled into dance victory, clinching the first dance battle win in Senior Farewell history.
Seniors Bailey Osborn and Bella Faria, the hosts of the rally, said that the Leadership class came up with the krump battle idea just in time for the last rally of the year.
“We added the new component of the dance-off which we planned a month before the rally,” Osborn said. “We originally really wanted to do musical chairs,but people kept on commenting no, we already did that at the winter rally, so we wanted to do something new so, well, what about a dance-off?”
Other aspects of the rally included a short skit by Peer Resource to encourage a positive student body, informing students about resources the class provides.
Additionally, junior Max Lukianchikov and sophomore Matty Michna performed the National Anthem on bass and electric guitar, without vocals.
Retiring head custodian Levi Hooks also took the chance to play drums for the opening song of the rally, subbing in for the student drummer during his last rally at Redwood.
Hosting the last rally of her high school career was bittersweet, Faria said.
“It was super sad to know that it was the last time I’d ever be in that gym for a rally,” Faria said. “Next time I’ll be in that gym will be for graduation, and just to know that that was the last time that I would ever get to really be able to show my Redwood spirit, and just be out there as a Redwood community, is really really upsetting.”
