Dancing

In 1969 compulsory dancing lessons for the first three forms took place in the gym during three lunchtimes each week.  Senior students were catered for with voluntary Tuesday evening classes, and dances ranged from the Queen’s Waltz and the Tango to the Madison and the Cha Cha.
A student wrote that ‘many of the students at Concordia are endeavouring to be transformed from elephants to a lighter-footed species… Maybe we’ll all appear on Showcase in a few years!’

The lessons bore fruit on May 3 at the Girls Hostel with ‘a bunch of about 90 swinging young people from the Leaving and Matric classes dancing their way through from 8 to 11 pm at the end of term social. After invigorating dances such as Queens Waltz, Military 2’s and 3’s and modern dancing there were drinks and sweets on sale for all those in need of a revitalizer and able to  afford it.

The first Year 12 Formal was held at the German Club on July 29^th 1989.
A student describes her experiences of this major social occasion in 1992.
‘The Terrace Hotel was decked out with groovy gold and silver balloons ready for an onslaught of disco dancing babes and daddies…. The chicken wings were the ideal mass and size to be suspended from helium balloons…. The disco-inferno pumped all night (until 10.30 pm) interrupted only by all too familiar speeches commending us on our fine conduct.’

In 1999 a student wrote that ‘everyone under twenty-one looked absolutely gorgeous and some oldies managed to look alright as well. I can personally say I have never boogied with so many people over the age of forty to songs that were produced before I was born.’

Note: All quotations are taken from The Brown and Gold magazines. The photo shows a junior social in 1966.