Christmas Programs: Week Two

This year, dividing the studio’s Christmas programs into three different weeks was about the most fantastic idea ever. Not only does it give us, as dancers, time to focus on specific pieces, but it also extends holiday joy into every corner of our lives. I love Christmas and all that comes with it.

On Monday, Training 3 performed Snow Scene for our parents, taking a kind of “dress rehearsal” for our upcoming shows. Bad dress rehearsals make good recitals, as the saying goes, but good dress rehearsals make even better recitals.

Today, we brought Snow Scene, alongside several other beautiful dances and skits, to the local nursing home. I was able to visit with a couple of elderly ladies afterwards, both of whom told me a collection of stories which I will never forget. One talked of her eight children and another of her previous home in Hollywood, California. Our great-grandparents have so much to share, I realized, and I am so grateful to know mine, especially Great-Grammy B., who will be 100 years old next month.

Back at the studio, Intermediate Pointe One performed All I Want for Christmas is You for our parents, ugly sweaters and all. That’s how we do holidays at TP.