It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Superman! And every kind of super hero a person can think of was at the Super Hero Dance held last Friday in the Manwaring Center’s West Ballroom, where students dressed as their favorite heroes and danced the night away.

“We try to have at least two dances a month,” said Amanda Shipp, a sophomore from Conyers, Ga., who also serves on the dance board.

“Usually there are more at the end of the semester than the beginning, but then there are also the Latin dancing and country dancing that happen almost weekly,” Shipp said.

While the Latin and country dances do involve a lot of decorating, the dance board hung posters from a variety of super hero movies for the dance last Friday. The Holiday Theater donated many of the posters.

“They were so great and gave us whatever we wanted,” Shipp said.

Disc jockey John Broadbent, a senior from Magna, Utah, arranged the music for the dance.

The Activities and dance committees have set up a way for students to request songs for any upcoming dances.

Students wanting to hear their favorite song at an upcoming dance just have to go to the Activities page on the BYU-Idaho Web page, click on Dances and then the link that says “request a song.”

Anyone can add their own song onto the list and vote on ones that have already been posted. Songs can only be posted once, and a person can only vote for each song once.

“Half hour before the dance, I look at the list and compare it to the songs we have and put together a play list,” Broadbent said.

“The hardest thing is to have to tell students that we don’t have a song or that we can’t play it because it’s not appropriate,” he said.

While the theme of the dance was super heroes, costumes were not required and many people decided to go without.

“We’re too poor to make costumes,” said Shannon Fort, a freshman from Gigharbor, Wash.

“We’re the people that get rescued,” said Danielle Speiser, a freshman from Powell, Wyo., who was dressed in normal clothes.

Those who did decide to dress up came as everything from Superman and Mr. Incredible, to super moms and super Canadians.

Edmund Leemhuis and Filip Matous, both freshmen from Vancouver, Canada, wore Canadian flags on their backs and dressed in red and white.

When asked what the powers are of a Canadian superhero, Leemhuis said, “Super smart and dangerously good looking.”

While this is the last informal dance of the semester, the semi-formal dance Cabaret will take place Dec. 10.