Dance teacher Lyn Ferrauto has been a Christmas Pageant choreographer for 30 years
Dance teacher Lyn Ferrauto has been part of the Christmas Pageant for 30 years. This is why she keeps coming back for more festive fun.
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Lyn Ferrauto’s passion for Adelaide’s Christmas Pageant is decades in the making.
The dancing teacher has been helping performers learn how to tap and twirl their way through the city streets for 30 years. It all started in 1989, when the Australian Drill Dance Team, which was preparing to perform in the 1990 Edinburgh Military Tattoo, was asked to join the Pageant.
“I was choreographer for the drill team,” Ms Ferrauto said. “From there, that led to me being asked to choreograph for various floats and I’ve been doing it ever since.
“I love the Pageant. It is something very special. If you walk down South Tce at the beginning when everybody is dressed in costume, you can feel that magic.”
Ms Ferrauto, a teacher since she was 15, has many happy Pageant memories. One highlight was choreographing routines for 75 tap dancers in top hats and tails.
“We had people who had never tapped before; we had dancers who had tapped before, so it was a lot of fun – but it was a lot of work,” she said.
“On the day it was sensational.”
The National Pharmacies Christmas Pageant is on Saturday from 9.30am.
Don’t miss the Pageant Guide in The Advertiser on Friday.