Dance Recital Week

As I mentioned last year around this time, Victoria and Karissa take dance at a very large and popular studio. The week before the recital is full of different types of practices. The dress rehearsal is just like it sounds, though the dances aren't in the order they're in for the actual show. The run-through is when each dance is performed in the order it will be for the show, but without costumes, just to make sure the transitions go smoothly. Lucky for us, this year the girls had dress rehearsal on the same night and run-through the same night. With four different shows and hundreds of girls, it's not always that way. It wasn't last year for us. They also both dance the same two nights, so we're good there too. Since we're not allowed to video tape during the actual performance (this is serious show biz, but a great experience!), I taped the girls at their dress rehearsal.

They both do a ballet number and a tap. Feel free to watch all four, they're not too long, but I won't be offended if you don't!

Here's Victoria's tap to a funky "Mary Had a Little Lamb".  She's the second from the left, mostly.

Here's Karissa's ballet to "A You Are Adorable". She's on the very right. She did pretty good this night, but she rocked it during the run-through, which I didn't record, and her smile that night was the biggest smile ever! She must have liked not having on that major poofy dress, which she complains is too itchy.



Here's Victoria's ballet to "Winnie the Pooh". She's kind of in the same place as the other dance, but it's hard to tell her apart from the other yellow, long-legged, girls. She also did much better at the run-through and had a great smile too.

And here's Karissa's tap to "Fishes". She had a hard time with learning tap this year. She's still the youngest in the class, so her friends were nice to help her. She and I worked hard at practicing her dance at home and she knows it real well now. She's really distracted in this dance by the fish head she had to wear. She said it itched her face where her glasses were ( I don't know why we didn't take them off like in the first dance.) She reminds me of myself when I was her age, always itching my face and fiddling around with my glasses.

Here's some pics of my girls with their costumes on.

 This is Victoria with her friend Analee that we carpool with every week.

 Here's Karissa with her friend Becca who is her partner and helper.

 Victoria with Julia in their lamb costumes.