2012 Dance Production: China the Beautiful from the mountains to the prairies
Life gets really busy with 3 girls. All 3 dance with the CAAM Chinese Dance Theater. Last weekend we did the annual Chinese New Year production at a local college's auditorium. 2 public performances on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, and then 2 shortened performances on Tuesday where local schools are bussed in for a field trip to see the production and get exposed to some Chinese culture. There are a couple of local Chinese immersion schools that also bring students.
I'm a dance mom - class coordinator for Jessica's class of 7th & 8th graders. The class performed 3 dances this year and it was quite a bit more work being in charge of 3 dances, 7 costumes and multiple hair changes. Jessica was in the prelude and finale and also the papercutting girls. Anna somehow ended up in three dances as well - the prelude and finale, and also hot peppery girls. Amanda was also in the finale. So all three of my girls were in the same dance (Finale, Finale). Very emotional for me to see all three of them on stage together in the same dance.
Here are some pictures. I didn't get Anna in her peppery girls outfit unfortunately. The girls started practicing for this production a year ago. We had weekend runthroughs for 2 weeks prior to last weekend. Last weekend, we had a tech rehearsal Friday, then practically lived at the auditorium the rest of the weekend. Very beautiful performances and a lot of wonderful comments. But, it is exhausting and I'm glad we're done for now.
