Ballet Recital

Lucy and Ella finished up their ballet class with an open house. Parents and guests were invited to the entire class period to watch and see what the girls did during a typical class and then see the performance they worked on each week.

First, the ballerinas stretched out their muscles.


Next, the teacher, Miss Carly asked each girl to show their favorite ballet move.



The girls showed us their work on the bar.


These videos show Lucy and Ella doing their ballerina walk. They wear a crown and are supposed to keep their heads and hands up and walk slowly across the room on their toes.



Lucy definitely took her time, and looked like a real ballerina in training. Ella definitely looked like Ella.


Next, the girls did their Freeze Dance. They got to wear pretty ribbons on their arms and run around to music until the song told them to "Freeze!"

Their smiles show how much they loved this!

After Freeze Dance was over, the girls lined up on their spots and sang "I'm a Little Ballerina." The girl next to Ella sang VERY loudly, so Ella plugged her ears!

Their moves weren't quite lined up here...

...that's better!

It was finally time to see the recital! Miss Carly told Lucy to stand on the first blue spot, and then asked Ella to stand on the yellow spot. Ella wasn't looking, and when she turned around, Miss Carly was already pointing to the next red spot. So, she thought she was supposed to be on the red spot, but another girl stood there. Ella was so upset about this she couldn't even make it through the routine...meanwhile, Lucy had quite the itch on her leg, and then didn't care at all that she was the only one doing the routine by the end!

Miss Carly decided to lighten things up a bit and let the girls listen to the Goldfish Song...again, it's lots of running around that leads to lots of fun.

Time to try the recital again...we almost made it the whole way through without spot drama...

Class Photo

Lucy and Ella with Miss Carly

We are very proud of our little ballerinas! They learned how to pointe, plie, arabesque, echappe, and stand in first and second positions, and they had tons of fun!