Kini's Place

This weekend was the dance recital for the studio we attend. It’s always a wonderful show that is amazingly well put on. Recital for our studio consists of two days and three shows. Not every class or dance is in every show. The younger kids and the more beginning classes have only one performance between the three shows. The older and more advanced, the more performances.

This year was Phoebe’s FOURTH year in ballet. She has advanced a level every single year (so far) and loves it. She started out in pre-ballet and moved through beginning, level A and this year, level B. Prior to this year, she had only one performance. This year, she was in two. Phoebe did an amazing job and we are very proud of her. The only thing, really, is that when in her dance, they do a turn, she does two or three instead of one. She says that she can’t help it, that she just loves to spin. We joked (a bit) that while she was advanced to level C for the next year, they’ll probably be choreographing more spinning/turning in the routine, just for her. (No, we don’t really believe that.)

Alex decided that since she loved the dancing she was doing while in Oklahoma! last fall, that she wanted to take dance classes also. She was already in the musical theatre class at the dance studio, and she added beginning tap and beginning lyrical (she wanted ballet, but this was all there was available by this time in the year). When it came closer to the end of the dance year, she also signed up to do the opening and closing shows for the recital (which meant all three shows, just for that part!). She also did extremely well and we are very, very proud of her as well. She advanced to level C of musical theatre and lyrical and to level A in tap.

Three super busy weekends in a row are now over! (Two Cinderella Kids performance weekends, followed by recital!) Phew!