Christmas Dancer

Pointe Shoe in a Wreath

I had to do it– I just had to! Being the first day of December, I couldn’t help the post title or the picture above. My family is going to finish off the decorating of our house today, and I plan to make Christmas cards as well.

Speaking of Christmas… what about the dances? Well, I’ll have you know that the ballet, modern and cherub Christmas Dances are coming along smoothly, now that Stop Game season has ensued! As I have said in a previous post, I promise to show videos of both the ballet and modern dances once my parents are able to record them. However, I may wait until Christmas Day to post them…! Do not fear; in the meantime, I will try to post my ballet and lyrical dances from last year. Now… to locate them…

Yesterday was my final ballet class with Bethany until January. It has been a fantastic month of learning! Every combination taught yesterday was done to Christmas music (imagine that!) which was so much fun. At the end of class, Bethany gave us some improv time. She put her iPod on shuffle and whatever song came up, came up! I ended up with quite a beautiful song, while others had a bit more difficulty (“I’m a Little Teapot” was one of those harder songs.). Bottom line: Bethany’s teaching is SO different, but SO enjoyable at the same time.

In pointe, I gave Miss Sara her birthday gift which she adored– yay! We did some releves, echappes, piques (which we learned last week) and… PIQUE TURNS! Yes, we did pique turns across the floor! I was so excited, although my face probably didn’t show it. I was only able to try the turns on my right side, however, because I found a large blister on my left foot, and I was in too much pain to attempt anything else… darn.