A Dance Recital (A.K.A. "P" gets flowers)

P has been taking a ballet and tap combo class all year.   Her recital was last weekend.

R and B both missed it as B had a track meet all day and R was busy playing the 2nd of 3 gigs he had on Saturday.

Here is P with C and R before the recital.

During the recital, her teacher sits on a chair in front of the stage and by hand motions, helps the class remember what they are supposed to be doing.  (Hence the black shadow in some of the pictures.)  P completely memorized her tap number though, and since we actually own the music she was performing to, she had fun performing her dance at home a couple of times before the recital.  I think she was a little nervous on stage as her showmanship was much better at home and her steps more deliberate.

Here are pictures from her tap dance.

And ones from her ballet dance.

She did a wonderful job with both dances and had fun having one costume that changed into two.

On the day of her actual recital, she was all about the flowers.  R believes she only wants to be in dance class because that way she can get flowers.  He may be right.  The day before her recital she said, "Mom, you better have gotten me flowers."  I informed her that her statement was not very polite.

I pre-ordered her flowers from the flower shop on post, and they bring them to the recital for us to pick up there.  As we walked into the school for the recital, there were buckets and buckets of flower bouquets.  This time P said, "Mom, did you remember to get me flowers?"

She was definitely thrilled to get her flowers, and has enjoyed having them on our dinning room table.