Dance your heart out!

Tomorrow is the first dance competition of the year! It is finally here! I am so excited to perform and watch my studio dance on stage! I cannot wait to watch the younger classes that I helped teach and seeing how well they will do! Hopefully they will remember everything they learned, corrections given to them, smile BIG, and most importantly get up there and have fun!! The competition this weekend is really small, compared to others we will be attended in the year! Being so early in the year, not to many studios take their dances out to compete. The competition is called Stage One productions.

While waiting backstage it seems like it takes forever! Watching the performers on stage and knowing soon you will have your turn on the stage, in front of the judges, makes you have “butterflies” in your stomach. Pressure is on high, because of course you want to do your best! No mistakes! My studio has this tradition that before we go backstage, we get into a circle, hold hands, and send good luck all around to one another. (By one at a time squeezing our hands) Then my dance teachers give us a last minute pep talk, reminding us everything we already know! (I think they get more nervous then us!!) This sounds silly, but it gets us all pumped up and ready for the dance. Did I mention we do this for all the dances?

One of the dances performing for tomorrow is the “mini’s” ages 5-7; which I help teach, they are doing a jazz routine to the song, “My Boyfriend’s Back.” The group consists of 8 girls and 1 boy. The girls start out on the stage in their adorable purple poofy dresses, then the little boy; Jake comes on the stage with one of those little motorcycles. He is wearing blue jeans and a leather black jacket. I cannot wait to see this dance. It is way to cute!! They do such a great job in class; hopefully they will not get to nervous!