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Spring is in the air, and accompanying the warm weather and sunshine is the 2026 Orchesis spring show!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year, Orchesis is kicked off the events of Family Weekend, with the first of three shows taking place yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This semester\u2019s Orchesis theme is \u201cOn the Radio,\u201d with the songs for each performance highlighting a different era in music from the decades of the past century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the goal of this theme is largely to highlight cultural shifts across time and help celebrate the college\u2019s 150th anniversary, student performers are more focused on the enjoyment they get from dancing to these songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTraveling through the decades has been really neat, and \u2026 you just get a really good soundtrack overall. (There\u2019s) super good music to look forward to,\u201d senior Abigail Helsel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each year, Spring Orchesis also serves as a final bow-out for our seniors, many of whom have been performing in Orchesis for most, if not all, of their college career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a special experience. I think the most important thing is there\u2019s this overwhelming sense of gratitude that I\u2019ve gotten to be a part of this whatsoever \u2026 to pour myself into this for eight semesters now. I\u2019ve never known Grove City without Orchesis,\u201d said Helsel, who has done Orchesis \u201ceight out of eight semesters\u201d of her time at Grove City, following in her mother\u2019s footsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another senior, John Remaniak, describes the feeling as \u201cbittersweet,\u201d with an emphasis on cherishing his last moments in the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helsel\u2019s message younger members of Orchesis is to \u201cPut your heart and soul into it. Don\u2019t worry about being perfect, but \u2026 just soak up every minute. Love all the people around you, take care of them well, love and serve those in the company with you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCherish being able to do this in college, cause it\u2019s really, really hard to find stuff (like this) outside of it \u2026 it\u2019s really hard to find that outside of the college atmosphere. Just have fun being in the moment. It\u2019s not something you get to have a lot of. So just be there,\u201d Remaniak added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the seniors say their goodbyes to Orchesis, there are several people who are performing for the first time this semester. One such individual is sophomore Sawyer Ames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t really planning to do it, but the guys\u2019 dance also looked really fun, and so I went to their audition \u2026 and I got into that one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Behind the scenes, there is also an entire team running the technology for the show. Everything from lighting, to audio, to broadcasting is handled by Media Services, who have been working tirelessly in preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sophomore Brady Larkin is primarily handling the lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He shared that he is excited about how the unique ideas for each dance, with the different choreographies working together, allow the dancers to use their God-given talents in this way, especially with this being the last time that the seniors get to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Orchesis will take the stage twice more, tonight 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. in the Physical Learning Center Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spring show highlights hits through the decades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[56,19,78],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-organizations","tag-issue-2026-04-24","tag-community","tag-richard-andrews"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2026-04-24-10-orchesis-on-the-radio-1.jpg",1280,820,false],"thumbnail":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2026-04-24-10-orchesis-on-the-radio-1.jpg",150,96,false],"medium":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2026-04-24-10-orchesis-on-the-radio-1.jpg",300,192,false],"medium_large":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2026-04-24-10-orchesis-on-the-radio-1.jpg",768,492,false],"large":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2026-04-24-10-orchesis-on-the-radio-1.jpg",1024,656,false],"1536x1536":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2026-04-24-10-orchesis-on-the-radio-1.jpg",1280,820,false],"2048x2048":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2026-04-24-10-orchesis-on-the-radio-1.jpg",1280,820,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ian Schartner","author_link":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/author\/schartnerij23\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Spring show highlights hits through the decades","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2026-04-24-10-orchesis-on-the-radio-2.jpg\")