Dance Recital 2009

Today was Chloe's dance recital, a fabulous way to wrap up a year of hard work. Chloe has been blessed with an extremely patient teacher who is willing to work with Chloe. Chloe loves dance. She looks forward to it each week and cannot wait for it to start up again in the fall. She has made some incredible friends through her dance classes as well.

This year Chloe took a Ballet/Jazz combination class. She loved the ballet, which is new this year. She has always just done ballet but never really enjoyed it until this year. She worked extremely hard this year getting her toes to turn out correctly and having correct posture during plies. She liked the jazz portion of the class as well and enjoyed being able to move a little faster to the music. She also took tap this year. Tap has been a struggle for her and at the beginning of the year she wanted to quit. She stuck with it though and is making huge progress.

Chloe was in four dances in this year's recital-She was a wildflower in the Ballet Story, a jazz dance--"You've Got the Beat", a tap dance to "I Love to Walk In the Rain," and the finale - "Hoedown Throwdown". She enjoyed each one but especially the last one since it is a Miley Cyrus song.

Here are some pictures of Chloe at the recital....










Chloe did her ballet and jazz dances in the same costume. The only difference was that she had a tutu under the skirt for ballet. This made her costume changes this year a breeze!!

Here she is dancing her tap routine....






I got Chloe a recital sweatshirt this year. It has the names of all the girls who danced in the recital. I thought it would be a fun way for her to remember this year at dance. They got to wear their sweatshirts during the finale. Which was great in theory until you had a bunch of sweaty girls putting on sweatshirts. You can imagine how warm they were.




This was Chloe's best dance recital ever! She did beautifully! She has grown so much this year. Every time I look at her I am reminded of how much our little girl is growing up. Chloe got two beautiful bouquets full of roses for her performance. She loves giving and receiving flowers so you can imagine how excited she was. It was a great night and she is already asking when she gets to go to dance again. =)