Last night Blossom's ballet school held their concert. It's a showcase of ballet, Jazz and Contemporary from grades K-12. The day is a marathon effort. We arrived at the theatre at 1.30pm (I was on hair duty), the show went on at 6.30pm and we finally arrived home at 10pm.
This year's ballet was La Bayadere - a ballet that is spookily, given very recent events, set in India. The production was very Bollywood in parts. This year's production was big on technique and really showcased the vocational students well. Blossom's class played harem dancers.
Special credit must go to Padawan Learner. He woke up with a fever yesterday so I had to take him to the theatre with me rather than send him to school and afterschool care. He was fabulous sitting there for five hours while I did hair and another three hours through the performance. He didn't complain once despite the frilly, mostly girly, surrounds and despite not feeling the best.
So, that's it. Ballet is over for another year. We have our Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays back again. Yay, slow starts on Saturdays...
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The boys' guitar lessons go through every school holidays except the summer ones. At the end of term 4 I think the same thing, "Yay! I get my Thursday nights back!"
Most impressed with Padawan Learner! What a guy! I don't think I could have been that patient (must have been pretty cool music in those headphones).
Isn't band over now too? Doesn't this mean we get Tuesday mornings back as well? (Please don't tell me I'm wrong!!)
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lovely montage, glad it went well!
well done to both your children.
Congrats to both of them for their individual talents on the night!
The costumes (and hair) look great!
Poor PL. Hope he feels better now.
I can NOT imagine having to endure any of that, let along with a fever.
Hair duty? OMG.
I still wake sweating from nightmares that I have arrived at a Ballet class without pins, spray or brush. Our ballet teacher was fearsome.
Congratulations to Blossom - she looks beautiful in her costume.
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