The One With the Recital and Bri's Finale

 

 

It was a bittersweet day! Today was the annual NSDA recital. And, it was Bri's last day performing on stage with them.

 Now, truth be told, we knew it was going to be a tough day. Bri had a solo in the show...and having already watched it during a preview, we knew there were going to be some water works. And there were.

However, the recital itself was quite a show. Between Bri and Kiff, they were in seven performances, which we think was a family record. Bri and Kiff had three dances together, Bri had her solo, Kiff had a hip hop, Bri was in a ballet, and they had the finale.

The show was phenomenal as usual. There were many highlights. Perhaps that one that made me smile the most was when the two of them danced to Ice, Ice Baby. That was quite a show! And they were a hoot in it. Seeing Bri in ballet and Kiff in hip hop was also a thing of beauty, too!  Of course, the solo stood out - Bri was amazing and got a well earned round of applause. 

Of course, the thing that was the tear jerker was the finale. They always choose a sentimental song - this one was about the wind and memories.  Bri and her two other senior classmates took center stage as others, including Kiff, danced them off. Bri and the other two got choked up - which got most of the rest of the audience choked up as well - and embraced for a long time at the end.

What an amazing end to a 16 year career dancing on stage...though Bri plans to keep dancing in college. The best part was we got to share it with a lot of family as well.

The One With the Recital

 

Today, Bri and Kiff had day one of their recital. Bri had her lyrical performance, which was amazing. Even more interesting was that Bri's teacher was one of Emmie's former 1st and 5th graders.

 

Later that day, during a second mini-recital (because of Covid protocols), Kiff had his hip-hop performance. He thought he'd mess up, but it was awesome, too!

 

It was quite a day on stage!

The One With The Other Recital

Another weekend, another recital.

Although, this time, it was not ours. It was Katie's recital. We went earlier today and enjoyed the show. It was the first time Kiff and I had gone to see it, and it was a lot of fun.

It is interesting to see how different dance schools treat recitals. This one was a little bit different. There were some scenes from plays and musicals worked into numbers, as well as a ballet section in the middle, and some neat gymnastics. Along with that, there was a mother dance and a father/daughter dance.

Very cool and very fun. Topped off with a visit to Fuddruckers.

Bri's recital is great

Bri had her fifth recital this weekend. And it went great. Bri performed in three specific dances in the show.

The first was a ballet to Jonny Fedora with the classic Disney cartoon playing in the background. She did well in that.

The second was a jazz dance to Dance With Me Tonight. Bri actually started off the dance by dancing with a young boy in the class. It was clever and fun.

The final dance was a tap to Jonny B. Goode. She did well and even did a little bit of air guitar. It was awesome.

What a great memory of her fifth recital....it is hard to believe there were five of them.

And it was great to know Dad was shining down during the performance....the rainbow shined during Somewhere Over The Rainbow.