Ballet and Dance and Music - Memories and an Awesome Video

Ballet is one of those things that I was never able to try as a young person. I have two children that were involved in ballet for many years and every year around this time I get nostalgic about recital time.

I was researching Tchaikovsky for my Harmony Fine Arts Grade 2 revision and got sidetracked watching all kinds of ballet. The one above Swan Lake - Pas de Quatre is amazing! The dancers are so perfectly in sync and it must have taken hours and hours of practicing to get this piece so absolutely beautiful. Even if you are not into ballet, take a look at the technical skill of these dancers.

Miss Amanda loved this costume....sparkly.

Here are some photos of my two ballet dancers. Brings tears to my eyes how sweet these times were and how long ago they seem now that they are so grown up. We live in a very small town and there is a very small ballet studio so Mr. B was the only boy dancer. There were benefits to that since it meant they found boy parts for him that were usually pretty major.

Wizard of Oz production. My niece was Dorothy and Mr. B was the Wizard. My niece went on to be a Dance major at San Francisco State....she is an awesome dancer and was a perfect Dorothy. The other character in the photo is Toto the dog.

He was the Wizard in Wizard of Oz and he was Johnny Appleseed the year they did a Storybook Ballet. He always enjoyed the extra attention. He soon moved to a jazz dance class and there were other boys in that class so he got to dance some fun stuff in the recital those years.

Thanks for indulging a little reminiscing. I would go back in a minute to relive those crazy busy recital days.

Barb-Harmony Art Mom