Sunday, November 17, 2013

Thoroughly Modern Lizzie

As most of you probably know, Hannah gave up dance this year in favor of singing more. In fact, she just made it into District Chorus!
But Lizzie decided to increase her participation in dance and was accepted into her dance studio's rep company a year ago. This means that she needs to take MORE dance. And she needs to be in MORE productions.
This means that she takes two ballet classes per week and has added modern dance to her repertoire. once a week. (That's in addition to rehearsals for Nutcracker on Wednesdays and Saturdays.) This past week they had parent visitation at the school and while I skipped ballet (it's ALL barre work and it's very very very quiet) I was intrigued by modern.
My thoughts on modern dance are thus:
1) The music is MUCH better. It was Adele and Justin Timberlake
2) Lizzie is going to have six pack abs in about a week -- most of the warmups (probably all of the warmups) involve the core. Lizzie often complains of a stomach ache on weekends and now I know why!
3) Lizzie is not really a fan of modern dance. Too few rules. And she says the music is too loud. :/

Here are some photos of her being all modern. Oh and if you notice anything, check out how deeply she concentrates -- she's VERY serious about dance:

Streeeeetttttccccchhhhhing:

Working with her teacher Miss Diane:

This is some sort of spot and spin across the room thing:

1 comment:

Aunt Anonymous said...

Beautiful pictures. Can't wait to see some video!