Dance Recital

This past Tuesday was the big dance recital. (One of the many reasons it's been two weeks since the last post.) Instead of a full ballet, the studio put on several pieces, each suited to a particular class or style. For example the girls in beginning pointe danced the Tarentella piece from Swan Lake, while the Jazz class danced to Cabaret. (Hint, Sarah was in both.)

Because of my camera's limitations I only have post performance photos. Here's John fresh from his dance posing with Joe and Mary our neighbors from across the street.

In case you were wondering why John has blue hair, John's class of boys danced a piece to an old song by the Ramones. Click here for video of the dress rehearsal. Please note there were three boys in the final piece.

Some of Sarah's friends from Girl's Book Club came to cheer her on. Here's Julia, Victoria and Emily in the middle of the photo. While they dance at a different studio, they all pull for each other. Emily's mom drove them to the performance.

We really appreciate all the people who drove up to and over an hour to the performance. The studio tried a new auditorium that is very nice, but 45 minutes north of our house. All told, it beats most all of the older places they have used in the city, it's just a little more remote.

Oh, would you like to see Sarah and Mommie's Jazz class dancing? Just click here. Sarah and Mommie are the two in the middle of the four dancers. You will have to take my word for it. It's a dark low resolution video I have the other performances on 8mm video. Someday I will get the box to transfer and upload it.

Finally, I hope that my friend Craig uploads his photos soon. He shot both the dress rehearsal and the performance with his Nikon DSLR. His daughter was in the recital too and he is nice enough to shoot all of the dancers and shares the photos with the rest of us.