2015 Prima Dance Recital

Last week was a very busy week for us. The big girls did a fantastic job at all of their dress rehearsals followed up by a big day of recitals on Saturday. Our dance studio allows the stage dress rehearsals to be recorded so I was able to put together a little video of all of their dances. The video is 20 minutes long because it includes some of the story elements from the ballet recital. Enjoy :-)

Rachel's Ballet Debut

This year Rachel joined the ranks at Prima School of Dancing, and she LOVED it!! She had the awesome, Miss Aly Anderson for her teacher and both my girls think she is the bees knees! In our family, we have used ballet as a sort of preschool replacement. The girls have not officially attended preschool so they went to ballet to learn about being with other kids and listening to a teacher that is not from church :-) They really learned a whole lot more than that. We have been privileged to attend Prima where the ethics are high and the girls' teachers have been amazing Christian role models. They've also learned a lot of great motor skills and both girls are much more graceful because of ballet. I personally, love the ballet recital and all the excitement that goes along with it. This year was a little tough since I was 39 weeks pregnant for the ballet recital, but we made it!

Rachel's dance is the opening act from this year's recital, entitled, The Pearl. All except the beginning act took place under the sea. My girls loved watching the older girls dance as Mermaids and other great sea creatures. Rachel is the very middle girl in her class (4th from either side) and she is a seagull (if the music didn't give it away). Her class did a great job at the dress rehearsal (video above) and an even better job on the day of the show. Way to go Miss Aly's Seagulls!!

Kathryn's First Ballet Recital

This year was Kathryn's first year in ballet. She really enjoyed her class with Miss Christy and is excited to learn more next year in Kindergarten Ballet/Tap class. To finish up the year they had a very large (humungous) recital at the Civic Center here in town on May 14th. Her good friend Lily also takes ballet at Prima School of Dancing so we met up with Lily and her mom for some last minute hair and make up before the dress rehearsal. This is a picture of the girls all ready to go for rehearsal.The theme for the ballet recital was Good Night Moon and 3 other children's classics. Both Lily and Kathryn were in The Velveteen Rabbit. Lily was a Toy Soldier and her dance was right before Kathryn's. Kathryn was a Raspberry from the scene where the Velveteen Rabbit gets left outside. She loved being a Raspberry and she did a fantastic job too!

Here is a picture of her waiting for her turn before the big recital. She wanted to do a pose for me so the picture is a little blurry. I think it does a good job of showing some of the things she has learned this year :-)Here is a picture caught by a real photographer during the dress rehearsal. These pics were put up on a website so I bought this one. My little ballerina is 2nd from the end with her toe pointing out. After she saw this pic she told what move she was doing at the time and what she was supposed to do next, etc. She seems to have a really good grasp on this stuff!


And finally, part of Kathryn's dance was performed behind a raspberry bush. After the recital we could go on stage and take pictures.

They even had a raspberry bush out for us take pictures with! The set up was perfect but my little anti-picture girl would not let us take her picture peaking out from the bush. So, these are pictures of the bush and Kathryn hiding behind the bush. She thought she was pretty funny when she saw the pictures. :-)