COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES AT THE FLOOR SPIRIT DANCE

by the PCC Journalism Staff


Stonehill’s Alumni Hall was filled with color as PCC 2018 celebrated its first week on campus with the annual Floor Spirit dance. Last Thursday night, students and proctors showed their floor spirit by dressing in their floor colors and dancing to both today’s hit music and classic PCC bops.

Each floor at PCC has a designated color, and many of the floor decorations and hall themes incorporate the color. Boland--one of the female dorms--has red, aqua, and pink floors, while the other female dorm Sheehan is completely yellow. The boys are housed in O’Hara, which boasts blue, green, and orange colors for its three floors.

After dinner, students gathered wearing their floor colors on the quad, taking pictures with their friends and playing games while waiting to enter Alumni Hall. Once inside, they sat in rows on the floor facing the stage and watched the PCC Players perform the inaugural skits for summer 2018.

Mr. Leonard opened the show with his classic “Randy Beeman” skit, before making way for Mr. Papasodero as the Substitute Proctor who mangles other proctors’ names during roll call. Ms. Brainard, Mr. Dennis, Mr. Rego, and Mr. LaPointe all had their names hilariously mispronounced before giving way to Ms. Tonucci’s star turn in the Fortune Teller skit. This sketch also featured Ms. Elman, Ms. DiCienzo, Mr. Ryan, and Ms. Martino as her hapless customers. The “Night of a Thousand Skits” continued with Pictionary, featuring Mr. Sanford, Mr. Keough, Ms. Brown, and Ms. Kent, and the Toothpaste sketch, where Mr. Gaughan drinks a cup filled with the spit of Ms. Gray, Ms. Bigelow, Ms. Matthews, and Ms. Richards. These comedy routines were all the build-up to the iconic Cake Skit, which closed out the sketch portion of the evening. Ms. Kent and Mr. Sanford welcomed Ms. Gagnon, Mr. Keough, and Ms. Brown to the ensemble.

Floor Spirit night continued with a series of game shows. Students were invited up on stage for contests of cup stacking, caramel apple eating, and cheese-ball throwing. These brief games paved the way for the dance itself to start. They dimmed the lights, students rose up from the floor, and the DJ turned on his colored lights and cranked the tunes. “Love Shack” by the B-52s was the bop that started it all. “It was like a muscle memory,” explained Second Year Rebecca Bryson, describing the traditional dance. Even First Year students picked up the moves quickly.

DJ Brown filled the evening with modern pop hits by artists like Nicki Minaj and Lil Pump before playing this summer’s theme song “A Different Beat” by Little Mix. For students who needed a respite from the dance, lawn games were set up on the grass outside Alumni Hall. But everyone came inside for the classic PCC songs such as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and “American Pie” that concluded the night. This was a vibrant celebration of the first week and for the colorful summer to come!