Young Dancers

A young dance troop, ages 10 through 17, will kick off performances for the Dancing with the Gorge Stars on Friday, Jan. 8, 7 p.m., at The Dalles High School auditorium. They will perform “Shake your groove thing.” Participants, some of them pictured above, include Mercy Iaulualo, Annabelle Tesch, Arianna Cagle, Catherine Nagamatsu, Caitlynne Wring, Sarah Winters, Nikki Allen, Riley Brewer, Moyra Dorzab, Emma Smith, Aidan Telles, Andrew Wring, Kai Nagamatsu, Chase Nagamatsu, Dillon Gibbons, Shano Booth, Storm Douthit, Taylor Morehouse, Julian Morehouse and Dylan Hinkley.