Kiki's World: Dance Recital

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Dance Recital

The anticipation, hard work, and blisters finally paid off!! Dance recital at Rialto was amazing. A week and a half of tech week. More blisters than I could imagine, even on the bottom of my feet. Soreness that is inexpressible. Long nights at the studio. Hours and hours of rehearsal. All of this for one night and four dances on one giant, beautiful stage. And it was totally worth it!
"America" opened the show. It was my ballet routine. I loved it so much, except for the end with the flags. That was really, really hard to learn and hurt a lot. Our costumes were beautiful blue and red tu-tu's (depending on our class) with silver sparkles.
"Pride and Prejudice" was my second dance. This was pointe. My favorite dance of the night was this one. I was most nervous for pointe because there is a lot more a person can mess up when dancing on pointe shoes, but it went well, according to everyone else. I thought I messed up a lot, but it didn't show, for that I am thankful. Our costumes for pointe were orange, pink, or blue depending on our level. Mine was orange. It had gold and brown mixed in and a sheer sparkly overlay over our leotards. It looked gorgeous on stage!
"These Boots are made for Walkin'" was my third dance and my least favorite. Tap has never really been my favorite style of dance, but I do enjoy it every once in a while. Our costumes were pink sparkly plaid tank tops, with frilly, almost flapper-style. shorts. I didn't love the costume, but it was better than I thought it was going to be. ;)
My last dance was the finale. We danced to the Kidz Bop version of "Uptown Funk." I loved it!!! Even though I hate jazz with a passion, it was so much fun to learn and to perform with all of my friends. Most of us were not taking the dance too seriously and were laughing at ourselves and each other throughout the whole routine. This made it amazing.

Now for the fun part. Pictures!!!!