Callie's Dance Recital

Callie had her annual dance recital at the beginning of June this year. This is a little later than normal which may have been caused by the fact that there were four dance nights instead of just two. Ordinarily we only have to go one night with the other night being for a different studio owned by the same person. This time, depending on what you were in you could have had your kid in all four nights. We were lucky enough to only have to attend two of the nights. We only see Callie once per year so I was going to see which ever show she was in.

Callie started the year in four different dance styles. Lyrical, Ballet, Jazz and Hip-hop. About half way through the year she decided she had had enough of Hip-hop. It's a less structured dance form and I believe Callie wasn't happy with the choice of song they were planning on doing. She dropped out before they started planning the final dance for the recital so no harm to the group and the owner said that most dancers don't stay in hip-hop for ever.

The theme for this year was the Wizard of Oz and my niece Kristen dances at the same studio so she was also in a couple of the dances. She has improved a lot over the past year. Her two dance types were split over the two days so it was good that we went to both recitals that we did. Callie had one dance on one night and all three dances on the other night so we could have just gone to the one show. But as I mentioned, with only one chance to see her per year I was glad we got a bit more dance recital time.

Callie's three dances were very well done. I always like to see how she compares to the other dancers in her group and she always seems to be near the top of her class. Her ballet is progressing nicely and she was allowed to go into Point. This is the ballet style where you spend some time on your tippy toes. It looks quite painful but I watched some of the older girls and they don't spend a lot of time on their toes so I don't think she'll be too damaged. You need to reach a certain skill set to attend this and she went to get her fitting in June and some starter classes as well. I'm very proud of how she has kept up with the dancing. We just thought it was cute when she was little. Who knew she would still be doing it 8 years later!