Dance Recital

So, I just realized I never wrote a follow up about my dance recital, which was Saturday, June 18th.  It all went really well, I was in the most dances of anybody (9/28) but surprisingly none of them were back to back.  Last year I had four back to back changes (I was in numbers 1, 2 and 3..as well as other back-to-backs) which really did a number on my stress levels!!  This year, though, the show flowed really smoothly and I believe the performance ran as expected.

I did, however, have several changes with only one number in between.  Unfortunately, in two of those instances the one number in between was one of the classes I taught.  I teach four; I was in one number, I had a quick change during two of them, so I really only got to see one of my classes.  They did well, and I heard my other classes did a great job, too.  I'm so proud of all of them, those girls really light up my Friday nights!!

After the show so many people came up and told me what a great job I did, which is always so nice to hear :)  I prefer compliments from strangers then from people I know because if it's someone I don't know then that usually means they were really watching and went out of their way to congratulate me.

The best compliment I got, by far, was actually inadvertent.  My music teacher, and the director of the Senior High show choir, ran the lights for the show.  Afterward he was talking to me and he told me he "really liked that Africa song" and that we were going to have to "steal some of the choreography for Messa Voce".  Messa Voce is the show choir group and I am one of the choreographers.  "That Africa song" was Shakira's song, Waka Waka which is the song I choreographed the advanced  acro dance to.  So I told him, "Mr. Poe, we don't have to steal it, it's my choreography".  He said that it was one of his favorites.  So I was really pleased seeing as how it was my first year doing choreography and apparently I did a good job!!

***There is a video on my youtube channel of me doing a self-choreographed solo to Waka Waka, the group dance is similar just altered to fit the skills of all seven other girls in the advanced acro class.