Great Bay:-- - Lynnette's Twirlerettes, a State and Regional Championship group, will be performing on St. Maarten for the first time on Monday, June 29, 2009 at the Square on Front street in what is being dubbed “a special summer entertainment for the entire family.”
The renowned group will perform at 6:00PM alongside St. Maarten’s own twirlerettes group, Les Coeurs Enchantes, as well as the Soualiga Capoeira and the Soualiga Brass Band under the auspices of the St. Maarten Tourist Bureau. The performance is free.
Lynette’s Twirlerettes is on a cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas and will visit three other destinations in the Caribbean but chose St. Maarten for its international performance because they believe the island has more to offer.
“They’re taking the performance on our island so serious that their rehearsals for it is being aired from Monday to Wednesday this week on their local Pennsylvanian station and can be viewed on Good Morning Pennsylvania at the following link: www.wnepcom,” said Director of Tourism, Regina LaBega.
Lynnette's Twirlerettes was started in 1983 by its director, Lynnette Lepre-Van Deusen, a licensed teacher and judge with various twirling organizations, who boasts of 35 years experience in twirling, modeling and pageant experience.
Lynette, as she is affectionately called, has judged Miss America Preliminary pageants in the state of Pennsylvania among other important pageants and also choreographed the 2007 Liberty Bowl halftime performance for the twirlers.
Her group, Lynnette’s Twirlerettes, has traveled widely and performed throughout the East Coast of the United States, and in Canada and Bermuda. The group has performed at the Miss America parade in Atlantic City, Salem Mass., at the Walt Disney World- Florida, Universal Studios-Florida and at the Liberty Bowl-Tennessee, among many other sites.
For the students, baton twirling is a means to acquire “a wealth of self-esteem, confidence, poise, grace, teamwork, and a lifetime of friendships and memories.”
Lynnette's Twirlerettes hopes to share the warmth of the family atmosphere it is known for with the people of St. Maarten in what it views as a brief but very important cultural exchange particularly with the youth of the island.