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Lunar New Year celebrations brighten RE campuses
Ransom Everglades celebrated the Lunar New Year and Year of the Snake with a vibrant showcase of music and dance at the upper school and various cultural activities at the middle school. Members of the Chinese Culture Club, several Chinese classes and the Chinese Parents Association worked together on the Feb. 5 centerpiece event at the upper school, which offered a colorful costumes, captivating entertainment, historical background and delicious cuisine. Among the many highlights: performances by the Dragon Dance Team and traditional fan and ribbon dances. Photo Gallery
Chinese Culture Club officers Gavin Heller '25, Minnie Zhou '26, Adaya Yang '25 and Charlotte Gould '26 served as emcees along with Sindhu Talluri ’25, a member of the AP Chinese class. Chinese Parents Association Chairs Shanjie Li and Yun Zhou provided invaluable support along with RE world languages teacher Xiaohong Teng.
"For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Lunar New Year, it is a traditional holiday that celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of the spring, bidding farewell to the past and celebrating new beginnings," Yang told upper school students from the Lewis Family Auditorium stage, and Zhou added: "We are overjoyed to have you all here with us to welcome another amazing year, 2025, the Year of the Snake."
Henry Berler ’25 and Siena Claure '26 performed an ode to Caishen, the God of Wealth; Chinese 5 students performed the fan dance, symbolizing elegance and harmony and welcoming prosperity into the new year. Nohan Gomez ’25, Simone Carrasco '27 and Jesse Tao '27 performed a Kung Fu Fighting routine; and Jacci Zhang ’27 (dance), Siena Bautista ’27 (violin) and Samuel Church Schulman ’27 (cello) shared their talents with featured roles or solos.
"For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Lunar New Year, it is a traditional holiday that celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of the spring, bidding farewell to the past and celebrating new beginnings," Yang told upper school students from the Lewis Family Auditorium stage, and Zhou added: "We are overjoyed to have you all here with us to welcome another amazing year, 2025, the Year of the Snake."
Henry Berler ’25 and Siena Claure '26 performed an ode to Caishen, the God of Wealth; Chinese 5 students performed the fan dance, symbolizing elegance and harmony and welcoming prosperity into the new year. Nohan Gomez ’25, Simone Carrasco '27 and Jesse Tao '27 performed a Kung Fu Fighting routine; and Jacci Zhang ’27 (dance), Siena Bautista ’27 (violin) and Samuel Church Schulman ’27 (cello) shared their talents with featured roles or solos.
RE accompanist Arn Xu, several professionals and many other students performed.
See the student performers below:
Dragon Dance Team
Red Dragon
Anya Bhandari ’25
Ron Donaldson ’25
Gavin Heller ’25
Tian Luan ’25
Max Salomon ’25
Patricio de Lope ’25
Yellow Dragon
Constantino Pena ’26
Mario Antonaccio ’25
Robert Li ’26
Jack He ’25
Ryan Alesandro ’26
Tyler Marcus ’26
Fan Dance - Chinese 5
Leyla Amjad ’26
Jasmine Zhao ’28
Matias Dovarganes ’26
Tyler Marcus ’26
Constantino Peña ’26
Ryan Alesandro ’26
Jack He ’25
Robert Li ’26
Lucas Chen ’28
Ribbon Dance and Jacci Zhang ’27
Zarah Rizvi ’27
Kaitlyn Lemus ’27
Isabella Copetti ’27
Christian Sayer ’28
Max Salomon ’25
Brandon Heller ’27
Owen Brue ’27
Additional Dancers
Aaliyah Asghar ’26
Luciana Pardo Munoz Ledo ’25
Yuelu Wang ’27
Anu Tewari ’25
Kung Fu Fighting
Nohan Gomez ’25
Nohan Gomez ’25
Simone Carrasco ’27
Jesse Tao ’27
Singers
Henry Berler ’25
Siena Claure ’26
Musical Duet
Siena Bautista ’27 and Arn Xu
Cello
Samuel Church Schulman ’27
Emcees
Adaya Yang ’25
Charlotte Gould ’26
Minnie Zhou ’26
Gavin Heller ’25
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.