“Disco Fever”, “Funky Jams”, “Ain’t no Mountain High Enough” and many more throwback hits blasted through the first dance in the newly renovated North Cafeteria. This dance, unlike Homecoming or KOH, had a special twist to it. Students’ $5 admission went towards the National Cancer Foundation.

On Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017 from 7:30-10:30 pm the Back to the Future Dance hosted by Relay for Life consisted of a DJ that played a variety of old songs from the 1950s to 1990s. When dancers needed a break, they could step into the courtyard and enjoy roasting marshmallows while looking at a laser light show projected onto all of the walls surrounding the courtyard.

“This is the kind of music people can dance to,” LT Assistant Principal of the Junior Class and Relay for Life Sponsor, Kris Costopoulos said. “It has a rhythm and a beat. The music you kids dance to nowadays has no beat. I see how you kids just jump up and down at Homecoming. That’s not dancing.”

Forty-two students attended, which meant a loss of $50, Costopoulos said. However, the students that did go to the dance appreciated it.

“I love the dance because it has the best music ever,” Joe Maino ‘19 said. “Also, I get to go outside and look at the stars while roasting marshmallows with my friends.”

New to the club, Isabelle Donahue‘s ’19 first relay event was the Back to the Future Dance.

“I was pleasantly surprised,” Donahue said. “Everyone there was so happy and supporting that it really allowed me to be myself and have a fun time.”

The Relay for Life program has grown increasingly popular to the staff and students at LT, because of cancer and its increased awareness. Events like the Back to the Future Dance provides everyone the ability to donate to the National Cancer Foundation, Costopoulos said.

“I have a very unfortunate close relationship with cancer,” Costopoulos said. “Both of my parents, two aunts, my brother and myself all had cancer.”

Everyone has been affected by cancer in one way or another and going to Relay for Life events shows your support to everyone who has been affected by cancer, Costopoulos said.