Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Ballet Class

Every Wednesday at 3:45 I arrive at Encore Dance Academy. The first thing I do is head up stairs put on my skirt, get my point shoes out and talk to Mazie (the daughter of one of the teachers). I slip my toes into the pads and carefully tie my point shoes. Next I gently dip the very tip of my toe in to a special powder so that I wont slip. Then I try doing some turns and Changements for warm up.

Then I go to the barr and do some stretches and Piques.









By that time it's 4:00 and the rest of the class is there and we start talking and floor stretching. Then Tara (the Teacher) comes up and we start doing our Tendus and things like that. Then I change into my soft shoes we run over one of our dances, then we all take off our shoes and do our dance that's finished and fix small errors. Then we stretch and go home.Those are my feet!


Pictures taken by my Grammie.

6 comments:

Kristine said...

Wow!!! Thank you for letting us peek into your class. I love the picture of your feet! That would make a beautiful poster.

Unknown said...

That is cool! It is funny, because my jazz teacher's name is Tara! I need some pictures of my dances on my blog, don't I? I'll work on that. ttyl!

the snyders said...

And what beautiful feet they are!!

Anna said...

Sounds like fun. So do you go to your class early to practice before everyone gets there?
Anna

The Dancing Pen said...

Yes, I go 15 minutes early.
Jacynne

Unknown said...

I just noticed you were wearing the necklace I got you for Christmas! :D You are beautiful, by the way. My mom needs to take pictures of my classes.

I can't wait until we get to do with out the barre.

Your foot look amazing! Your shoes look white. I can tell you are working hard in them, they are covered in filth! Mine are getting there. My other pre-pointe shoes were horrid! They aren't very pink anymore, lol.

I agree with Kristine, the one picture of your feet would make a beautiful poster. :D

ttyl!