Dance Recital

When I was in school, I took dance for ten years. I absolutely loved it and miss all of my old dance friends. This weekend is River City Performing Arts' 20th anniversary and has invited back alumni to dance in their recital. I am so excited. I just hope I don't make a total ass out of myself. There won't be alcohol there so surely I should be okay. It's only people who competed, and most of them got dance scholarships and still dance, but the only time I dance is when it is alcohol-induced or when I'm in my car, so I'd say I'm at a slight disadvantage.

I was put in the back row a lot and my mom assured me this was only because I was taller than the other girls. However, considering I was overweight and fell down a lot, I have a feeling she might have been stretching the truth. I started competing in the 5th grade and here are a few pictures of some of the dances through the years..

I am the one in the PINK tights, the 4th from the right.. Apparently I didn't get the memo that we had to wear tan tights. This was at my last dance recital and talked all the girls into messing up their costumes as a joke to freak out our instructors.

This picture was from our Christmas party, my junior year. The ensemble danced for the younger girls and our parents. I'm actually not in the back row this time!! Wow a miracle.

This was a modern dance used in competition in 2002. Not to brag or anything, but we got 1st place every time.

This picture is from my favorite dance ever. The song was "Come out and Play" and it was so fun to learn. Our costumes were super cute. We also competed with this song and, again, gold medal.

This was from the "Dance Masters of America" competition in Atlanta in 2002. These competitions were so fun. We usually got there on Friday to rehearse, Saturday morning we had dance seminars with "famous" choreographers and then Saturday night we had our competition. Sunday morning we had more seminars and then we were dismissed.