Recital season is coming!!!
I'm so excited that Katie's recital is coming up! June 21st is the date, but we're not sure yet if she'll have the 12 or the 3 p.m. show. Her dance school, Tricia Sloan Dance Center, conducts several shows over the course of a weekend, so we're fortunate in that we don't have to sit at recital for hours on end waiting for her performance, which I hear is the norm many other studios in our area. Her show will probably be about two hours long (not her performance, of course -- that's only like three minutes), and if it is anything like last year's show, we'll all be in for a real treat. Their dance company performances are top notch. It's even more exciting this year because our neighbor's little girl is also in Katie's dance class, so it'll be a neighborhood affair at recital this year.
Saturday they posted pics in the studio and on the studio's website of the various costume choices for the year. Below is a pic of the choice for Katie's dance class. I think it's cute!
Katie seems to think that they're using the blue version of the costume above. I like them both, but the pink/black combo has always been one of my favorites. And yay for me, I don't even have to order new complimentary seamless background paper to do her recital pics. The two rolls I already have are pink and blue, and would compliment either choice very well. I have the white and black backgrounds standing by as well.
I'm equally thrilled about the music choice for their routine this year. It's Rob Thomas' "Little Wonders." Awwwwwww. They're going to look adorable!
Last year, Katie's recital coincided with my graduation from Drexel, so it was quite chaotic making the mad dash from Philadelphia to Southern New Jersey on a hot Saturday afternoon in the height of shore traffic. We made it with only minutes to spare before she had to go on stage. I thought Shawn was going to have a stroke at the wheel with the stress of trying to get us there on time. My sister-in-law, Michelle, who danced throughout her childhood and teenage years and owned a studio of her own in Missouri, was here for graduation and never was I so thankful to have her with us. She managed to get Katie's makeup on in a minivan in stop-and-go bumper-to-bumper traffic. It was hectic, but we made it. It'll be nice this year to not have all that stress on recital day.
